This article compares eight different diversity methods: 3 based on visual information, 1 based on date information, 3 adapted to each topic based on location and visual information; finally, for completeness, 1 based on random permutation. To compare the effectiveness of these methods, we apply them on 26 runs obtained with varied methods from different research teams and based on different mo...

The reference to ethnicity in the 2012 National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England (1) is mainly with regard to promoting mental health in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. However, there is little detailed information about any specific strategy to reduce suicide rates in BME groups. The Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan for Northern Ireland has only one brief reference re...

We submitted 6 interactive search runs for TRECVID2008, including 4 single user and 2 collaborative runs. The 6 runs are derived from 3 independent interactive trials: 1 collaborative trial, and 2 independent single user trials. These base evaluations are extended by using different automated query methods to supplement the interactive results. The complete set of submitted runs in priority ord...

What will yield the best results: doing one run n generations long or doing m runs n/m generations long each? This paper presents a techniqueindependent analysis which answers this question, and has direct applicability to scheduling and restart theory in evolutionary computation and other stochastic methods. The paper then applies this technique to three problem domains in genetic programming....

Abstract We summarize the 8th Competition on Legal Information Extraction and Entailment. In this edition, competition included five tasks case law statute law. The component includes an information retrieval Task (Task 1), confirmation of entailment relation between existing unseen 2). 3), entailment/question answering task based retrieved civil code statutes 4) without 5). Participation was o...

5′ → 3′ WK-automata are Watson-Crick automata whose two heads start on opposite ends of the input word and always run in opposite directions. One full reading in both directions is called a run. We prove that the automatas’ power increases with every run more they can make. This defines an infinite hierarchy of language classes between the regular and the context-sensitive languages. This hiera...

The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...

PURPOSE A cortically generated Lennox-Gastaut type seizure is associated with spike-wave/poly-spike-wave discharges at 1.0-2.5 Hz and fast runs at 7-16 Hz. Here we studied the patterns of synchronization during runs of paroxysmal fast spikes. METHODS Electrographic activities were recorded using multisite intracellular and field potential recordings in vivo from cats anesthetized with ketamin...