IEEE President-Elect Candidates Respond to Questions on Governance Issues T he IEEE Computer Society has established a reputation for excellence within the computing field. As a component of the IEEE, the Computer Society’s activities parallel those of 44 other societies and councils serving the computing and engineering disciplines. Representing by far the largest IEEE society contingent, the ...

Estimates of waterfowl demographic parameters often come from resighting studies where birds fit with individually identifiable neck collars are resighted at a distance. Concerns have been raised about the effects of collar loss on parameter estimates, and the reliability of extrapolating from collared individuals to the population. Models previously proposed to account for collar loss do not a...

With the rapid development of online Knowledge Sharing Communities (KSCs), the problem of finding experts becomes increasingly important for knowledge propagation and putting crowd wisdom to work. A recent development trend of KSCs is to allow users to add text tags for annotating their posts, which are more accurate than traditional category information. However, how to leverage these user-gen...

expression of htlv-i p19 protein in an escherichia coli expression system always leads to the formation of inclusion body. solubilisation and refolding of the inclusion bodies is complex, time consuming and difficult during large-scale preparation. this study aimed to express and purify a soluble form of recombinant htlv-i p19 protein in an e. coli expression system. the synthetic dna encoding ...

1. I n t r o d u c t i o n In this paper we describe work which uses decision trees to estimate probabilities of words appearing with various parts-of-speech, given the context in which the words appear. In principle, this approach affords the opt imal solution to the problem of predicting the correct sequence of parts-of-speech. In practice, the method is limited by the lack of large, hand-lab...

This paper investigates the role of a goal parameter in semantics. On the one hand, goals are necessary for a semantics of questions and answers. On the other hand, the eeect of underlying perlocutionary goals on information in context can be modelled as an issue or question-under-discussion. A logic, update semantics with questions (USQ), is presented that combines update semantics with a part...