The 1996 FAIR Act was a novel departure in farm policy, with fixed payments, absence of acreage set-asides, and avoidance of CCC commodity stockpiles that provide a possible means of transition to a market-based agriculture. Some now argue that the FAIR Act has failed, on the grounds that the federal government has spent too much, while at the same time this spending is not effectively targeted...

A New features are extracted and compared to improve the prediction of protein-protein interactions. The basic idea is to select and use the best set of features from the Tensor matrices that are produced by the frequency vectors of the protein sequences. Three set of features are compared, the first set is based on the indices that are the most common in the interacting proteins, the second se...

This paper adopts Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for longterm analysis of voice quality, in particular creakiness. Each automatically labeled creaky instance (word) is modeled as a document and different prosodic and syntactic cues as terms. This framework attempts to automatically identify the most salient correlates, or latent factors, of creakiness, and further assign each creaky instance (w...

Habitat loss is the most important threat to species survival, and the efficient selection of priority areas is fundamental for good systematic conservation planning. Using amphibians as a conservation target, we designed an innovative assessment strategy, showing that prioritization models focused on functional, phylogenetic, and taxonomic diversity can include cost-effectiveness-based assessm...

The Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA) title of the 1996 FAIR Act is a novel departure in farm policy. Its fixed payments, no acreage set-asides, and avoidance of CCC commodity stockpiles provide a possible means of transition to a market-based agriculture that would not require governmental intervention to prop up the agricultural economy. Some now argue that the FAIR Act has failed, on...

This is the first time that our group participate NTCIR and Answer Path is a brand new system. In this system, we have normally three components as Question Analyzer, Passage Retrieval and Answer Extractor. Question Analyzer used the combination methods of rules and Lucene was the choice of our search engine platform. And in Answer Extraction, we cut the retrieved passage into sentences and uti...