Laboratory and pilot-plant composting of garbage mixtures of newspaper and vegetable waste has demonstrated that garbage can be converted to a medium that produces mushrooms (Agaricus campestris) in good yield. Sewage sludge was less satisfactory than newspaper, gumwood sawdust, or vegetable waste as a compost material for growing mushrooms. A sample of commercially produced compost was found t...

This two-part study integrates a quantitative review of one year of US newspaper coverage of climate science with a qualitative, comparative analysis of media-created themes and frames using a social constructivist approach. In addition to an examination of newspaper articles, this paper includes a reflexive comparison with attendant wire stories and scientific texts. Special attention is given...

This paper presents a system intended to automatically acquire subcategorization frames (SCFs) of verbs from the analysis of large corpora. The system has been applied to a newspaper corpus (made of 10 years of the French newspaper Le Monde) and acquired subcategorization information for 3267 verbs. 286 SCFs were dynamically learnt for these verbs. From the analysis of 25 representative verbs, ...

This paper profiles significant differences in syntactic distribution and differences in word class frequencies for two treebanks of spoken and written German: the TüBa-D/S, a treebank of transliterated spontaneous dialogs, and the TüBa-D/Z treebank of newspaper articles published in the German daily newspaper ’die tageszeitung’ (taz). The approach can be used more generally as a means of disti...

This paper profiles significant differences in syntactic distribution and differences in word class frequencies for two treebanks of spoken and written German: the TüBa-D/S, a treebank of transliterated spontaneous dialogues, and the TüBa-D/Z treebank of newspaper articles published in the German daily newspaper ‘die tageszeitung’ (taz). The approach can be used more generally as a means of dis...

The phrase 'bury your head in the sand' means failure to acknowledge a problem. It emanates from the habit of ostriches who hide when faced by predators with the critically flawed assumption that if you can't see it, it can't see you. The obvious shortcoming of Surgeon Specific Mortality Data (SSMD) is the premise that the surgeon bears responsibility for all post-operative deaths irrespective ...

We examine whether the local press is an effective monitor of corporate misconduct. Specifically, we study effects newspaper closures on violations by facilities publicly listed firms. After a closure, increase 1.1% and penalties 15.2%, indicating that reduce firm monitoring press. This effect not driven underlying economic conditions , fraud environment, or conditions. Taken together, our find...

Ligand-dependent activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) pathway leads to a diverse array of biological and toxicological effects. The best-studied ligands for the AhR include polycyclic and halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, the most potent of which is 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). However, as new AhR ligands are identified and characterized, their structural and physio...

The Freshman Fishwrap project at the MIT Media Laboratory makes a personalized electronic newspaper available to any interested member of the MIT community. In its original implementation the Fishwrap's software provided a mechanism for readers to manipulate the elements that would be contained in their paper, but lacked the ability to respond to their reading habits by modifying the order of t...

In this paper we present a quantitative investigation into the impact of text normalization on lexica and language models for speech recognition in French. The text normalization process defines what is considered to be a word by the recognition system. Depending on this definition we can measure different lexical coverages and language model perplexities, both of which are closely related to t...