Crowdsourcing mechanisms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) or the ESP game are now routinely being used for labelling data for machine learning and other computational intelligence applications. I will discuss three important aspects of crowdsourcing which can help us tap into this powerful new resource in a more efficient way. When obtaining training data from a crowdsourcing system for the...

While a strategic imperative for financial institutions, major differences currently exist among banks' ability to convert their customers to using the internet. In addition, not a lot is known as to what drives those differences, although one can easily hypothesize that on-line banking adoption must be due to a combination of demand (“pull”) and firm (“push”) factors. This paper presents a sta...

Yang, Tianxin, Jurgen B. Schnermann, and Josephine P. Briggs. Regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 expression in renal medulla by tonicity in vivo and in vitro. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F1–F9, 1999.—Renal medullary prostaglandins are believed to exert an important functional role in antagonizing vasopressin effects in dehydration. Studies were undertaken to determine the effect of hyp...

Purpose. The purpose of the article lies in studying main socio-anthropological measurements problem recognition represented primarily by philosophy Alex Honneth, which is actualized struggle Ukrainian people for their existence and national-cultural recognition. A consistent analysis communicative paradigm contemporary led to understanding its transformation into reality identification forms i...

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The print media in Kenya has been covering Kenya’s Parliamentary debates for decades. Parliament, on its part, played the role of being an important news source both and electronic media. As continues to fulfil core mandate informing public about operations latter also provides a vital media, hence, leading symbiotic relationship between two institutions, with main beneficiary. This research ex...

Research and scientific explanation about discourse democracy theory of Jurgen Habermas  and studying and evaluating reflection and generalization of his philosophical and epistemological principles are objectives which the researcher follows in this research From this view, there is studied representation of concepts and categories such as cognitive interests, communication action, discoursing...

A. John Chandler, A.J�Chandler & Associates Ltd., Willowdale, ON Canada Shin-ichi Sakai, Environmental Preservation Center, Kyoto University, Japan Incineration is generally considered a CO2 neutral means of managing MSW. A thorough evaluation of the environmental effects ofMSW incineration should consider the potential for greenhouse gas effects from the methane emissions of managed landfills ...

Introduction In his early article on the philosophy of hope, Paul Ricoeur admiringly spoke of Moltmann’s eschatological theology: “For my part I have been very much taken with – I should say, won over by – the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.” It is quite uncommon for a contemporary European philosopher to so exp...