Long-term outcome studies are frequently hindered by a decreasing frequency of patient follow-up with the treating surgeon over time. Whether this attrition represents a "loss of faith" in their index surgeon or the realities of a geographically mobile society has never been assessed in a population of patients undergoing spinal surgery. The purpose of this article is to determine the frequency...

Question answering systems provide an elegant way for people to access an underlying knowledge base. Humans are not only interested in factual questions but also interested in opinions. This paper deals with question analysis and answer passage retrieval in opinion QA systems. For question analysis, six opinion question types are defined. A two-layered framework utilizing two question type clas...

Taking a decision in democratic social groups (societies) is based on the opinion of the majority or on the consensus, if it is the case. Personalities and opinions of individuals constituting a social group in different stages of its development are used to be heterogeneous. The difference in opinions is indeed a motive to changes in a social group. So, the study of opinion dynamics is of grea...

Going Concern Audit Opinion can predict whether or not a company may go bankrupt, including one component of going concern decision. Several factors related to the in this study are influence financial distress and reputation auditors audit committee as moderators. The purpose was analyze effect auditor on provision opinions with existence an moderating agent for property real estate companies ...

Abstract In the model of group identification, or qualification problems, Samet and Schmeidler (2003) provide two axiomatic characterizations of the ``liberal'''' decision rule (a person is socially qualified as a member of a collective if and only if he qualifies himself). They impose monotonicity, non-degeneracy, and independence axioms, which are standard in this model, together with either ...