This paper reports on a experiment to identify the emotional loading (the “valence”) of news headlines. The experiment reported is based on a resource-thrifty approach for valence annotation based on a word-space model and a set of seed words. The model was trained on newsprint, and valence was computed using proximity to one of two manually defined points in a highdimensional word space — one ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of selected assistive devices on normal standards of gait. The gait characteristics of stride length, step length, step width, and foot angle were analyzed for 24 right-dominant, healthy men under four conditions: right ankle-foot orthosis (AFO), right hemiplegic arm sling (HAS), both devices (AFO+HAS), and no devices. The dependent varia...

Scrutiny of potential mergers by the European Commission often focuses on unilateral effects or single firm dominance. But some cases have involved concerns over coordinated effects: the concern that the merger could increase the likelihood of consumer harm through tacit collusion by the reduced number of firms in the industry (this is known as collective dominance). The economic and legal issu...

This paper examines the amount of grandfathering needed for an emissions trading scheme (ETS) to have a neutral impact on firm profits. We provide a simple formula to calculate profit-neutral grandfathering in an asymmetric Cournot model with a general demand function. Using this formula, we obtain estimates of profit-neutral grandfathering for the electricity, cement, newsprint and steel indus...

Introduction Archaeological investigations of landfills have revealed that biodegradable wastes can be found — virtually intact — 25 years after burial. We know that landfills contain bacteria with the metabolic capability to degrade many of the materials that are common components of municipal refuse. The persistence for decades of degradable materials in the presence of such organisms appears...

We present an option for CCD colour camera based ink density measurements in newspaper printing. To solve the task, first, a reflectance spectrum is reconstructed from the CCD colour camera RGB values and then a well-known relation between ink density and the reflectance spectrum of a sample being measured is used to compute the density. To achieve an acceptable spectral reconstruction accuracy...

the current study was conducted to survey the influences of addition of alfalfa meal (am), rice bran (rb) and wood shaving (ws) in wheat-based diets [contain soluble non starch polysaccharides (nsp)] on performance carcass characteristic and serum lipids of broilers from 11 to 42 d of age. seven hundreds 10-d-old male ross 308 chicks were placed into 35 pens and allocated to seven wheat-soybean...