In the tables P means precision at cutoo documents and RPrec means precision after R documents have been retrieved, where R is the number of known relevant documents. TSV means Term Selection Value (see Section 3.1).

In order to run a game tactically, high level knowledge is required from and by coaches and analysis experts. Assessing tactical performance through statistic indicators has some drawbacks, however, it is not only difficult to prove reliability on the defined indicators, but those static indicators often hide the game's dynamics. New network-based approaches offer a promising way to improve fut...

Online social networks (OSNs) have formed virtual social networks where people meet and share information. Among all shared information, health related information (HRI) has received considerable attention from researchers and individual users. While considered beneficial, sharing HRI, which is personal in nature, comes with its privacy drawback. Privacy is a process of boundary regulation that...

The field of one-dimensional dynamics, real and complex, emerged from obscurity in the 1970s and has been intensely explored ever since. It combines the depth and complexity of chaotic phenomena with a chance to fully understand it in probabilistic terms: to describe the dynamics of typical orbits for typical maps. It also revealed fascinating universality features that had never been noticed b...

Lead is the most abundant of the heavy metals in the Earth’s crust. It has been used since prehistoric times, and has become widely distributed and mobilized in the environment. Exposure to and uptake of this non-essential element have consequently increased. Both occupational and environmental exposures to lead remain a serious problem in many developing and industrializing countries, as well ...

Lithography as developed for IC device fabrication is a high volume high accuracy patterning technology with strong 2 dimensional (2D) characteristics. This 2D nature makes it a challenge to integrate this technology in a 3 dimensional (3D) manufacturing environment. This article addresses the performance of a waferstepper (ASML PAS5000) in several 3D processes ranging form waferbonding and thi...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that can tremendously revolutionize health care thus benefiting both hospitals, doctors and patients. In this context, protecting the IoT in health care against interference, including service attacks and malwares, is challenging. Opacity is a confidentiality property capturing a system’s ability to keep a subset of its behavior hidden from passive obs...

To those who may have reaped pleasure and benefit from the reading of previous editions of Dr. Powell's work on diseases of the lungs it will not be necessary to do more than record the fact that the new edition is excellent reading and quite up to date as regards treatment, etc. In the preface to this edition there occurs a sentence which may well be taken to heart in these 'microbic' days:?"T...

In [CMSZ2], Cartwright, Mantero, Steger, and Zappa discovered a unitary group in three variables with respect to the quadratic extension Q( √ −15)/Q whose integral model over the integer ring with the prime 2 inverted gives rise to a diadic discrete group acting transitively on vertices of Bruhat-Tits building over Q2. Inside the integral model are three subgroups to which the restricted action...

Straight-through-processing (STP) is an emerging IT-based innovation for financial services that redefines the way organizations can exchange business-critical information without manual intervention during the transaction lifecycle. While some progress has been made in understanding STP phenomena, few empirical studies have examined how STP innovation is adopted and diffused across organizatio...