The DARPA Spoken Language effort has profited greatly from its emphasis on tasks and common evaluation metrics. Common, standardized evaluation procedures have helped the community to focus research effort, to measure progress, and to encourage communication among participating sites. The task and the evaluation metrics, however, must be consistent with the goals of the Spoken Language program,...

Acknowledgment The current work was carried out at the Department of Biological Chemistry of the University of Konstanz during the period of 1999-2002. Working there was at the same time instructional and fun, both of which being constantly upheld by my supervisor Prof. Dr. Volker Ullrich. Besides instructions, I like to thank him for his excellent support and working facilities he provided. I ...

The development of Internet technologies made migrate the information systems towards the Web. This migration has profited mainly of an evolution of the database technologies. Nevertheless, it requires a new architecture of information system permitting to bring solutions for the problems of heterogeneous data integration, relevant information retrieval and diffusion of integrated data on the W...

BACKGROUND The quantitative study of the publication output (bibliometrics) deeply influences how scientific work is perceived (bibliometric visibility). Recently, new bibliometric indices and databases have been established, which may change the visibility of disciplines, institutions and individuals. This study examines the effects of the new indices on the visibility of Medical Informatics. ...

It has been repeatedly shown that when asked to identify a protagonist's false belief on the basis of his false statement, English-speaking 3-year-olds dismiss the statement and fail to attribute to him a false belief. In the present studies, we tested 3-year-old Japanese children in a similar task, using false statements accompanied by grammaticalized particles of speaker (un)certainty, as in ...

From the 1950s, John Bowlby, one of the founders of attachment theory, was in personal and scientific contact with leading European scientists in the field of ethology (e.g., Niko Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and especially Robert Hinde). In constructing his new theory on the nature of the bond between children and their caregivers, Bowlby profited highly from their new approach to (animal) behavi...

The Internet has disrupted traditional tourism in which a promising landscape of intelligent service provision has erupted by applying a new lattice of cutting-edge technologies. Thus, the different actors of the tourist services are in a new environment and they should operate in a coordinated manner to increase the value of tourism, to keep current tourists and attract new ones. One of the ma...

Abstract This study aimed to replicate and validate concreteness context effects on semantic word processing. In Experiment 1, we replicated the behavioral findings of Hoffman et al. (Cortex 63,250–266, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.001 , 2015) by applying their cueing paradigm with original stimuli translated into German. We found contextual cues facilitate processing in a judgment ...

Purpose This paper explores the role that control system – understood as a set of financial and non-financial mechanisms introduced by Ministerial Decree 15th February 1860 played in promoting ethical tolerance prostitution Kingdom Italy. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research method was adopted. Specifically, this study draws on literature accounting deviant behaviors Suchman's the...

In this paper study for users have unquestionably profited from the rapidly changing paradigm of cloud computing. It employs virtual machines instead actual equipment to host, store, and network multiple components, it charges per use. As amount data being stored grows, so does importance load balancing as a research area. One most difficult problems in computing is distributing ever-changing b...