States make policy choices about Medicaid eligibility, benefits, and reimbursement rates in the context of the larger state fiscal environment. This paper reviews the factors that made this environment so favorable in the 1990s and examines the state budget outlook. State tax revenue is likely to grow more slowly in this decade than in the last, states will face continued substantial pressures ...

In this paper, we propose an automated solution for ranking query results of Web databases in an userand query-dependent environment. We first propose a learning method for inferring a workload of ranking functions by investigating users’ browsing choices over individual query results. Based on this workload, we propose a similarity model, based on two novel metrics – userand querysimilarity, f...

Questions that require counting a variety of objects in images remain a major challenge in visual question answering (VQA). The most common approaches to VQA involve either classifying answers based on fixed length representations of both the image and question or summing fractional counts estimated from each section of the image. In contrast, we treat counting as a sequential decision process ...

Despite an overall body symmetry, human behavior is full of examples of asymmetry, from writing or gesturing to kissing and cradling. Prior research has revealed that theatre patrons show a bias towards sitting on the right side of a movie theatre. Two competing theories have attempted to explain this seating asymmetry: one posits that expectation of processing demand drives the bias; the other...

In the U.S., 18,800 lives could be saved annually if those advised to obtain colorectal screenings based on national guidelines complied (Zauber et al., 2012). Subtle suggestions embedded in a decision-making environment can change people's choices (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008). Past research has shown that prompting people to form plans about where and when they will complete an intended behavio...

The article presents the experiments carried out as part of the participation in the main task (English dataset) of QA4MRE@CLEF 2013. In the developed system, we first combine the question Q and each candidate answer option A to form (Q , A) pair. Each pair has been considered a Hypothesis (H). We have used Morphological Expansion to rebuild the H. Then, each H has been verified by assigning a ...

THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION EXAMINATION has been shown to be a reliable method of measuring a candidate's ability to recognize and recall the facts that are relevant to a doctor's training (Wood 1961, Hubbard and Clemans 1961). Because the answers to multiple choice'questions are predetermined, they can be scored by a computer; this can be programmed to give correlations and tables as required...

The IJCNLP-2017 Multi-choice Question Answering(MCQA) task aims at exploring the performance of current Question Answering(QA) techniques via the realworld complex questions collected from Chinese Senior High School Entrance Examination papers and CK12 website1. The questions are all 4-way multi-choice questions writing in Chinese and English respectively that cover a wide range of subjects, e....