Paraphrase plagiarism is a significant and widespread problem and research shows that it is hard to detect. Several methods and automatic systems have been proposed to deal with it. However, evaluation and comparison of such solutions is not possible because of the unavailability of benchmark corpora with manual examples of paraphrase plagiarism. To deal with this issue, we present the novel de...

Were it not for the debate over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), few outside of India ever would have heard of the suicides. St Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Lambrecht only found the story because he was covering the GMO controversy in India, and even then his paper ran the story under a headline about Monsanto’s problems (“India Gives Monsanto An Unstable Lab For Genetics In Farming,...

PURPOSE Despite the controversy regarding clinical efficacy, dental hygienists use the diode laser as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal therapy. The technique to maximize successful laser therapy outcome is controversial as well. The purpose of this review is to explore the scientific foundation of the controversy surrounding the use of the diode laser as an adjunct to non-surgical periodo...

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An investigation of the cognitive models underlying ethnic actors’ own ideas concerning the acquisition/transmission of an ethnic status is necessary in order to resolve the outstanding differences between “primordial” and “circumstantial” models of ethnicity.This article presents such data from a multiethnic area in Mongolia that found ethnic actors to be heavily primordialist, and uses these ...

The US President’s annual State of the Union speech is a favorite place to unveil new initiatives. For the past several months there has been a buzz that President George W. Bush would say something dramatic about climate change. “Buzz” in Washington can mean political trial balloons, genuine leaks or simply wishful thinking. It took a while to sort out the truth in this case. The week before t...

in most legal systems, the right to cancel the contract is provided for consumer in electronic contracts with slight variations. in article 6 of the european :union: directives on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts, such right is provided too. article 37 of iranian ec code considered for the right of withdrawal is very close to the above terms. there is a controversy a...