The paper presents a variant of our generative probabilistic multimedia retrieval model that is suitable for information needs expressed as multiple examples. Results have been evaluated on the TRECVID 2003 collection.

A historical and theoretical analysis of the copyright environment demonstrates that both the economic rights associated with copyright and the moral rights often associated with copyright perform social functions. The latter have not been as universally embraced or adopted as the former. The lack of enthusiasm for moral rights is argued to be because the social utility of this aspect of the co...

Generating summaries that meet the information needs of a user relies on (1) several forms of question decomposition; (2) different summarization approaches; and (3) textual inference for combining the summarization strategies. This novel framework for summarization has the advantage of producing highly responsive summaries, as indicated by the evaluation results. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights ...

introduction: divorce, unwanted pregnancies and failed marriages inflict severe mental, emotional, physical and financial damages on individuals, families and the community. meanwhile, premarital education programs are considered one of the effective factors to prevent such problems. objective: the present study aimed to determine challenges of premarital education program in iran. materials an...

the current challenge in health services research is disability to present comprehensive and effective intervention plans for community health promotion. there are numerous reasons in this regard, some of which can be overcome through performance-based participatory research methods. the population research center (prc) in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) provides the necessary grou...