In this paper, we propose a system to deal with the Chinese textual entailment problem for NTCIR-9 RITE task. The RITE task consists of four subtasks, simplified Chinese binary classification (CS_BC), simplified Chinese multi-way classification (CS_MC), traditional Chinese binary classification (CT_BC), and traditional Chinese multi-way classification (CT_MC). According to the definitions of th...

A serious problem in the study of cultural characteristics archaic Scandinavia is verification sources. The main questions that arise: to which extent pagan ritual practices continued exist after beginning mass Christianization, and what Christian ideas were extrapolated by later sources pre-Christian era. One major rituals mentioned – feast sacrificial blood, was a crucial element structures e...

Between 1827 and 1829, John Ruskin underwent a rite of passage to being admitted as participant in his parents’ personal correspondence. Simultaneously, juvenilia, he composed dialogues between children parents imitation conversations Aikin Barbauld’s Evenings at Home Maria Edgeworth’s Frank: A Sequel Harry Lucy Concluded. This article investigates how Ruskin’s management fictional under contro...

Some species thrive in captivity but others exhibit extensive psychological and physiological deficits, which can be a challenge to animal husbandry and conservation as well as wild immunology. Here, we investigated whether captivity duration impacted the regulation of a key innate immune response, inflammation, of a common wild bird species, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Inflammation ...