Enabling surgeon-educators to themselves create virtual reality (VR) training units promises greater variety, specialization, and relevance of the units. This paper describes a software bridge that semi-automates the scene-generation cycle, a key bottleneck in authoring, modeling, and developing VR units. Augmenting an open source modeling environment with physical behavior attachment and colli...

Academic researchers and many in industry often lack the financial resources available to scientists working in "big pharma." High costs include those associated with high-throughput screening and chemical synthesis. In order to address these challenges, many researchers have in part turned to alternate methodologies. Virtual screening, for example, often substitutes for high-throughput screeni...

Modeling a user’s click-through behavior in click logs is a challenging task due to the well-known position bias problem. Recent advances in click models have adopted the examination hypothesis which distinguishes the document relevance from the position bias. In this paper, we revisit the examination hypothesis and observe that user clicks cannot be completely explained by the relevance and th...

Persian language is one of the most widely used languages in the Web environment. Hence, the Persian Web includes invaluable information that is required to be retrieved effectively. Similar to other languages, ranking algorithms for the Persian Web content, deal with different challenges, such as applicability issues in real-world situations as well as the lack of user modeling. CF-Rank, as a ...

There has been significant recent interest in studying consumer behavior in sponsored search environments. Sponsored search is the fastest growing form of advertising on the Internet. A number of factors have contributed to this growth. The ads tend to be highly targeted and offer a higher return on investment for advertisers compared to other marketing methods. In addition the large audience i...

Clicks are phonetically very complex sounds in every respect. While their articulatory properties are beginning to be quite well-understood, a detailed acoustic model for these sounds is still largely lacking. This paper aims at filling that gap.

With the rapid development of Internet, recommendation system is becoming more and important in people’s life. Click-through rate prediction a crucial task system, which directly determines effect system. Recently, researchers have found that considering user behavior sequence can greatly improve accuracy click-through model. However, existing models usually use click as input model, will make ...

speech delay with an unknown cause is a problem among children. this diagnosis is the last differential diagnosis after observing normal findings in routine hearing tests. the present study was undertaken to determine whether auditory brainstem responses to click stimuli are different between normally developing children and children suffering from delayed speech with unknown causes. in this cr...