This paper details the author’s plans for and progress with compiling and analyzing a new gigaword English corpus from the web to complement his BNC-based online database “Phrases in English”. This new corpus represents the principal English-speaking countries in proportion to their population and will be linguistically annotated with the CLAWS4 tagger using a PoS-tagset comparable to those of ...

In this paper we present three key elements of case-based reasoning (“CBR”) and describe how these are realized in our HYPO program which performs legal reasoning in the domain of trade secret law by comparing and contrasting cases. More specifically, the key elements involve how prior cases are used for: (1) Credit assignment of factual features; (2) Justification; and (3) Argument in domains ...

Relative attribute models can compare images in terms of all detected properties or attributes, exhaustively predicting which image is fancier, more natural, and so on without any regard to ordering. However, when humans compare images, certain differences will naturally stick out and come to mind first. These most noticeable differences, or prominent differences, are likely to be described fir...

Despite the increased salience of metaphor in organization theory, current perspectives are flawed and misguided in assuming that metaphor can be explained with the so-called comparison model. I therefore outline an alternative model of metaphor understanding—the domains-interaction model—which suggests that metaphor involves the conjunction of whole semantic domains in which a correspondence b...

In this paper two connected Szilard single molecule engines (with different temperature) model of Maxwell's demon are used to demonstrate and analysis the logical compare operation. The logical and physical complexity of " > " operations are both showed to be kTln2. Then this limit was used to prove the time complexity lower bound of sorting problem. It confirmed the proposed way to measure the...

In this note, procedures for determining the sample sizes needed to compare the rates of two Poisson populations to achieve a pre-specifi ed power at a given ratio of the rates are proposed. The fi rst method relies on a conditional uniformly most powerful test (CUMPT) which leads to sample sizes that will guarantee the desired power, but at the cost of using more units than necessary. The seco...

Component-based technology is gaining popularity in modern software development. This approach helps reduce development cost and time-to-market, as well as improve maintainability and reliability. One of the key problems in component-based software development is finding a way to certify the quality of individual components and that of the integrated component-based software systems. There are ...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Metrics for comparing greenhouse gases are analyzed, with a particular focus on the Integrated Temperature Change Potential (IGTP) following a call from IPCC to investigate this metric. It is shown that GWP and IGTP are...

The "comparison" class The value returned by compare() is an object of class "comparison". Importantly, this is not simply a logical value. In order to test whether the comparison was successful overall, for example as the condition in an if statement, you must use the isTRUE() function. > isTRUE(compare(1:10, 1:10)) [1] TRUE > The transforms() function can be used to extract the vector of tran...

The availability of diabetes drugs with new properties in the last several years has prompted excitement about potential new and unique advantages for diabetes care. That has certainly been the case with the new insulin secretagogues, repaglinide and nateglinide, which have earlier onset and shorter duration of action than the sulfonylureas. The niche that insulin secretagogues occupy brings un...