BACKGROUND Geocoding is the assignment of geographic coordinates to spatial points, which often are postal addresses. The error made in applying this process can introduce bias in estimates of spatiotemporal models in epidemiological studies. No studies have been found to measure the error made in applying this process in Spanish cities. The objective is to evaluate the errors in magnitude and ...

Recommender systems have gained a lot of popularity as effective means of drawing repeat business, improving the navigability of web sites and generally in helping users and customers quickly locate items that are likely to be of interest. The rich literature of recommendation algorithms presents both opportunities and challenges. Clearly there are a wide variety of algorithmic tools available,...

Abstract Three of the most recognizable corporate names are Microsoft, a manufacturer of computer software, and Google and Yahoo, two internet search providers. Two of the most popular soft drink brand names are Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. This article proposes to use the sequences of English alphabet letters in the names of these companies and products as the basis for creating five new peptides...

We study an online job scheduling problem motivated by storyboarding in web advertising, where an advertiser derives value from having uninterrupted sequential access to a user surfing the web. The user ceases to browse with probability 1− β at each step, independently. Stories (jobs) arrive online; job s has a length `s and a per-unit value vs. We get a value vs for every unit of the job that ...

Corresponding author: Man Fai Law Department of Medicine Tuen Mun Hospital Prince of Wales Hospital 852 Shatin, Hong Kong Phone: 852-97763090 E-mail: mflaw99@yahoo. com.hk 1Department of Medicine, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong 2Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong 3Departments of Pathology, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong 4Departments of Radiology, Tuen Mun H...

Identifying high-quality content in community-type Q&A (CQA) sites is important. We propose a task in which a computer identifies good answers from such sites. We describe the design of our bestanswer estimation task using Yahoo! Chiebukuro. We also describe a method of constructing the test collection used for our CQA pilot task, the manual assessment method, and assessment results.

In Cimple, a joint project between Wisconsin and Yahoo! Research, we are building systems that manage information for online communities. In this paper we discuss the fundamental roles users play in such systems, then the difficult user-centric research challenges raised by these roles, with respect to contributing to the system, accessing and using it, and leveraging the social interaction of ...

To facilitate user browsing of Web, some websites such as Yahoo! (http://dir.yahoo.com) and Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org) manually maintain a hierarchical structure. While manual classification of web pages provides high accuracy, it is very expensive. To automatically include new emerging pages into these hierarchies, web page classification becomes a hot research topic in web infor...

Nowadays there are various ways to invest money. The capital market becomes a tantalizing choice for potential investors. profit from this investment is obtained the difference between selling and buying price of shares. Created program expected provide an overview comparison prediction accuracy different hidden layer cells amount. Using historical data yahoo finance get stock prices in last 12...

We present IntoNews, a system to match online news articles with spoken news from a television newscasts represented by closed captions. We formalize the news matching problem as two independent tasks: closed captions segmentation and news retrieval. The system segments closed captions by using a windowing scheme: sliding or tumbling window. Next, it uses each segment to build a query by extrac...