Abstract Ascension Island has had a long intermittent record of instrumental weather recording. Here, we develop monthly records mean temperature and precipitation totals (for 1924–2020 when an almost complete is available) from the three principal recording sites: capital Georgetown two gauges at Wideawake Airfield. Although some data are in global climate databases, have sourced as much possi...

Database stores a huge amount of information in a structured and organized manner and provides many features for machine learning. There are a lot of algorithms to discover diierent kinds of rules from databases. In this paper, we propose a new method which can compute all maximal generalized rules in relational databases. The method integrates the machine learning paradigm, especially learning...

An attribute-oriented rough set method for knowledge discovery in databases is described. The method is based on information generalization, which examines the data at various levels of abstraction, followed by the discovery, analysis and simplification of significant data relationships. First, an attribute-oriented concept tree ascension technique is applied to generalize the information; this...

In this paper, we discuss the different ways in which modern European boardgames (“Eurogames”) are converted for digital play. We review digitised versions of three popular tabletop boardgames: Puerto Rico, Agricola and Ascension. Using these examples, we demonstrate the tension between the interaction metaphor of the original analogue medium and the metaphor of a digital game. We describe the ...

This paper examines how industrial policy – specifically tariff liberalization and tax subsidies – affects the magnitude and direction of FDI spillovers. We examine these spillover effects across the diverse ownership structure of China’s manufacturing sector for 1998 through 2007. We find that tariff reforms, particularly tariff reductions associated with China’s WTO ascension, increased the p...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The medical case histories referred to are the original MS records now bound in one volume and filed in the hospital on the island. For background information the literature is very meagre, but I have had recourse to the following: St. Helena by Philip Gosse, (London, Cassell, 1938); Six Months on Ascension by Mrs. Gill (London, John Mufray); Darwin and The Beagle, by Alan Moor...