Requests for recommendation can be seen as a form of query for candidate items, ranked by relevance. Users are however o‰en unable to crisply de€ne what they are looking for. One of the core concepts of natural communication for describing and explaining complex information needs in an intuitive fashion are analogies: e.g., “What is to Christopher Nolan as is 2001: A Space Odyssey to Stanley Ku...

This synopsis provides an identification key to the genera of Tribe Lachnophorini of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres including five genera previously misplaced in carabid classifications. The genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 is revised with 23 new species added and four species reassigned from Eucaerus LeConte, 1853 to Asklepia Liebke, 1938. In addition, a new genus is added herein to the Tribe:...

Based on research conducted by NCBI’s comparative genomics group, the database of Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs) represents a phylogenetic classification of proteins encoded in complete genomes. The COGs are derived from an “all-against-all” sequence comparison of the encoded proteins. Each COG consists of individual proteins or groups of paralogs from at least three lineages...

Figure 1 shows a TaxPlot in which E. coli K12 has been selected as the reference genome for comparison of two strains of H. pylori, J99 and 26695. Each point in the figure represents a single E. coli protein. The X and Y coordinates represent the BLAST score for the protein’s closest match in the two strains of H. pylori. There are 217 E. coli proteins that are equally similar to proteins in th...

s of Scientific Presentations Listed Alphabetically by Author/Presenter Peak Alpha Frequency: An Electroencephalographic Measure of Cognitive Preparedness Efthymios Angelakis, PhD candidate University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee [email protected] Introduction. Electroencephalographic (EEG) peak alpha frequency (PAF) has been shown to correlate with a variety of phenomena, including age, m...

The GermanTeam is a joint project of several German universities in the Sony Legged Robot League. This report describes the software developed for the RoboCup 2001 in Seattle. It presents the software architecture of the system as well as the methods that were developed to tackle the problems of motion, image processing, object recognition, self-localization, and robot behavior. The approaches ...

Spinal Cord Injury .........................................1-3 Implementation Of The Year 2000 AgeAdjustment Standard ....................................4-6 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is one of the most debilitating types of trauma. Disability, loss of productivity, extreme use of medical resources, and untold human suffering routinely accompany these injuries. In order to assess the need for s...

In this paper, we present new estimates of the effect of changes in workers’ compensation benefits on benefit duration and application frequency. Using administrative data for the state of California, we estimate the duration and frequency effects resulting from two increases in temporary disability benefits occurring during the mid 1990s. We employ a quasi-experimental research design that exp...