It is a challenging task to identify sentiment polarity of Chinese reviews because the resources for Chinese sentiment analysis are limited. Instead of leveraging only monolingual Chinese knowledge, this study proposes a novel approach to leverage reliable English resources to improve Chinese sentiment analysis. Rather than simply projecting English resources onto Chinese resources, our approac...

In this commentary we consider the validity of tobacco industry-funded research on the effects of standardised packaging in Australia. As the first country to introduce standardised packs, Australia is closely watched, and Philip Morris International has recently funded two studies into the impact of the measure on smoking prevalence. Both of these papers are flawed in conception as well as des...

For inspection of manufactured parts, one can use the information of two or more product characteristics that are strongly related to the characteristic of interest. Under the condition that at most a given, typically very small, fraction of the accepted parts does not satisfy the specification limit, test regions are determined such that the number of accepted products is maximized. The method...

The impacts of the evolving information technology (IT) on organisations, markets, industries, and economies have been researched intensively. Aspects studied have included productivity, employment, business value, markets, organisation, and industry structure, to name a few. With the increasing availability of panel data spanning longer periods, it is now possible to study the relatively longe...

Innovation is an important source of competitiveness and is studied extensively by both the academicians and the practitioners particularly in the last decades. This study is based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey covering 184 manufacturing firms. A model is developed to determine the determinants of innovativeness and data is gathered th...

After a discussion of different types of models being involved in the process of numerical simulation we focus on an analysis of air flow for civil engineering constructions. All models are derived from a product data model based on Industry Foundation Classes (IFC).

Product lines offer significant business and technical advantages to software companies that produce a range of similar products customized for different users. These advantages derive from the strict relationships between the products. Product line development can benefit from domain analysis and engineering techniques. The paper reports the experience of product line development in the domain...

in this paper for calculating policy analysis matrix parameters, with regard to real or shadow prices, we pay attention to variation of endogenous variables, using results of cge  model. the results of the study indicated that,in output market, because of government policies, there are implicit tax on products of iran;s auto industry. but inputs of auto industry, benefits from government subsid...

steel production in iran has been recorded since fourteen century b.c. however the main growth and development in steel industry has occurred in recent decades. steel industry has important role in development of industrial countries, and also steel consumption may consider as an important ind ices in the development process. this pap er has analyzed two main complexes (zobe ahan and mobarakch)...