A short-term implicit memory effect is reported and interpreted as arising within the word recognition system. In Experiment 1, repetition priming in lexical decision was determined for low-frequency words and pseudowords at lags of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 23 intervening items. For words, a large short-term priming component decayed rapidly but smoothly over the first 3 items (8 s) to a stable...

Text categorization is useful for indexing documents for information retrieval, ltering parts for document understanding, and summarizing contents of documents of special interests. We describe a text categoriza-tion task and an experiment using documents from the Reuters and OHSUMED collections. We applied the Decision Forest classiier and compared its accuracies to those of C4.5 and kNN class...

It happens more and more often in decision aiding situations to be faced with ordinal or nominal information concerning the alternatives that are considered by a client/decision maker (hereafter we will use the term decision maker DM). By the term ordinal or nominal information we intend the fact that evaluation on attributes, descriptors, indexes, criteria etc. may be expressed on ordinal or n...

Clinical decision making is a term frequently used to describe the fundamental role of the nurse practitioner; however, other terms have been used interchangeably. The purpose of this article is to begin the process of developing a definition and framework of clinical decision making. The developed definition was "Clinical decision making is a contextual, continuous, and evolving process, where...

This article is about the enhancement of myopic online decision approaches for considering longer term planning goals in the management of logistic processes in a dynamically varying environment. By means of a demand peak we simulate a severe disruption of the environment of a transport system and show that a pure myopic scheduling strategy is not able to ensure an acceptable service level in s...