The goal of this chapter is to review recent neurobiological evidence to improve our understanding of human valuation under uncertainty. Although we are ultimately interested in human behavior, we will borrow from studies of animals with related brain structures, namely, non-human primates. Specifically, we wish to explore how valuation is accomplished? As we shall see, the evidence rejects a p...

In this paper we investigate named entity transliteration based on a phonetic scoring method. The phonetic method is computed using phonetic features and carefully designed pseudo features. The proposed method is tested with four languages – Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Korean – and one source language – English, using comparable corpora. The proposed method is developed from the phonetic method ...

atmospheric circulation patterns are responsible for drought and flood occurrences around the globe specifically in moderate mid latitude climates. while some circulation patterns are responsible for wet spells and floods as well, the drought events can be attributed to some other circulation patterns. therefore, identification and distinction of dry/wet producing patterns and the geographical ...

background: with the introduction of computed tomography in diagnostic radiology a new and fundamentally different imaging modality has become available. meanwhile, it is clear that the absorbed doses by the patients during ct were relatively high in comparison with those of other diagnostic radiology techniques. the aim of this survey was to determine the average absorbed dose in yazd province...

Drought is one of the most serious natural disasters in China. Drought disasters occur frequently and caused huge economic loss in recently. In this paper, a drought prediction model based on weighted Markov Chain is put forward. An application is demonstrated by Anhui province of Huaihe River in China. Based on the precipitation data during 1958-2006 at monthly scale, the different time scales...

Indexing techniques support the retrieval and maintenance of large sets of terms There is also an indexing method called substi tution tree indexing that e ciently handles sets of substitutions We present three advanced indexing operations for substitution trees The multi merge for the simultaneous uni cation of sets of substitutions the subsumption operation on two sets of substitutions and th...

Objectives: Updated review about topographic anatomy, clinical and radiologic diagnosis, and management of the circumcaval ureter. Methods: We used Ovid and PubMed (updated January 2006) to conduct a literature electronic search on MEDLINE which included peer-reviewed articles. Moreover, we analysed previous publications regarding both ‘‘retrocaval’’ and ‘‘circumcaval’’ ureter. Results: Circumc...