In this paper, we argue for the need to distinguish between task and dialogue initiatives, and present a model for tracking shifts in both types of initiatives in dialogue interactions. Our model predicts the initiative holders in the next dialogue turn based on the current initiative holders and the effect that observed cues have on changing them. Our evaluation across various corpora shows th...

Passport holders of the following countries do not require a visa to enter the Departement o. Mere, D.O.M. as long as their visit (for business or tourism) does not exceed 90 days. NOTE: If you cannot find your nationality in the list below this means that you require a visa. A) Andorra Anguilla (1) Argentina Australia Austria B) Bahrain (2bis) Barbados Belgium Bermuda (1) Bolivia Brunei Brazil...

This work presents the segmentation of credit cards holders of a Portuguese financial institution. It is focused on the evaluation of the obtained solution via cross-validation. The proposed approach specifically handles a large data set with mixed (numerical and categorical) variables. It provides the evaluation of the internal stability of the segmentation solution and helps in characterizing...

Access to resources, wealth, and power positions varies systematically with membership in social categories. This article asks what role the elites themselves – as holders of regulators access influential can play maintaining, but also changing, demographic composition elites. Drawing on a unique survey among entire Norwegian elite, we investigate elite believe are main causes gender imbalance ...

We consider a dynamic model of the capital structure of a firm with callable debt that takes into account that equity holders and debt holders have a common interest in restructuring the firm’s capital structure in order to avoid bankruptcy costs. Far away from the bankruptcy threat the equity holders use the call feature of the debt to replace the existing debt in order to increase the tax adv...

In this paper, we argue for the need to distinguish between task and dialogue initiatives, and present a model for tracking shifts in both types of initiatives in dialogue interactions. Our model predicts the initiative holders in the next dialogue turn based on the current initiative holders and the effect that observed cues have on changing them. Our evaluation across various corpora shows th...

Representation and Prediction Features Initial experiments showed that replacing prepositions by simple place-holders decreases the translation quality. As an extension to the basic approach with plain place-holders, we thus experiment with enriching the place-holders such that they contain more relevant information and represent the content of a preposition while still being in an abstract for...

The present study analyzed the profile of dental researchers receiving grants related to their productivity in research from the Brazilian National Research and Development Council (CNPq). Data collection was carried out in March 2008, using the Brazilian database for curriculum vitae (Lattes Format). There were 144 researchers registered in the database and linked to 25 institutions. These res...