Comments and suggestions made by Dominique Foray, Ben Martin, Richard Nelson, Ammon Salter, Ed Steinmueller and Robert Tijssen are gratefully acknowledged. The participants of the conferences “New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: A Conference in Honour of Paul A. David” and the “Sixth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators” provided insightful ...

Eriotheca gracilipes concept is re-circumscribed according to the shape and texture of leaflets, diameter petiole, calyx color, seed striation geographic distribution. In addition, a new species (Eriotheca uniflora) combination crenulata) are proposed here. Descriptions, identification key, taxonomic comments, distribution, phenology conservation status, images diagnostic characteristics table ...

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In the context of the development of a feature-based opinion mining system for English, we observed that there is some very interesting information provided by customers but not yet covered by “standard” opinion mining techniques: opinion mining aims at detecting whether comments are positive or negative, but it appears that customers are very often suggesting improvements about what they are r...

Acknowledgements I am extremely grateful to John Broome, Wlodek Rabinowicz, Bertil Tungodden and an anonymous referee for exceptionally detailed comments. I have also benefited from comments by audiences at Oxford and Konstanz. Support for this project was provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and also by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Education a...

The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) was set up in March 2011, and was tasked with the role of rewriting and harmonising financial sector legislations. It came out with a report (FSLRC report) and the draft Indian Financial Code (IFC) in March 2013. Prior to making its final recommendations, FSLRC had issued an approach paper in October 2012, to which Consumer Unity & Tru...

Patient outcomes to drugs vary, but physicians currently have little data about individual responses. We designed a comprehensive system to organize and integrate patient outcomes utilizing semantic analysis, which groups large collections of personal comments into a series of topics. A prototype implementation was built to extract situational evidences by filtering and digesting user comments ...