Aggregated search is that task of blending results from different search services, or verticals, into the core web results. Aggregated search coherence is the extent to which results from different sources focus on similar senses of an ambiguous or underspecified query. Prior research studied the effect of aggregated search coherence on search behavior and found that the query-senses in the ver...

This paper examines the combined influences of detrending and time aggregation on the measurement of business cycles. The approximate band-pass filter of Baxter and King (1999) performs relatively well in the sense that it retains the basic shape of disaggregate spectra and cospectra when applied to time aggregated data and is straightforward to apply across sampling intervals. Analysis of know...

Background: Survivin is an integral part of the Chromosomal Passenger Complex (CPC) which plays a vital role in mitosis. Experiments have demonstrated that survivin can physically bind to DNA. Crystallographic studies show binds Threonine-3 histone H3. In patients with autoimmune diseases, increased expression contributes aggravated disease phenotype. Thus, functional, and mechanistic data poin...

Time unit invariance is introduced as an additional requirement for multiperiod risk measures: for a constant portfolio under an i.i.d. risk factor process, the multiperiod risk should equal the one period risk of the aggregated loss, for an appropriate choice of parameters and independent of the portfolio and its distribution. Multiperiod Maximum Loss over a sequence of Kullback-Leibler balls ...

Community resilience planning, risk mitigation and recovery optimization must assume a system perspective at the level of the overall community built environment. While engineers can quantify the performance of individual buildings and facilities, such information must be aggregated to reflect the vulnerability of the building portfolio as a whole to support resilience-based decisions at the co...

Federated Aggregated Search by Andrés Marenco Zúñiga The traditional search engine paradigm has changed from retrieving simple text documents, to selecting a broader combination of diverse document types (i.e. images, videos, maps...) that could satisfy the user’s information need. Each type of document, stored in specialized databases known as ‘verticals’, and found in either local or federate...

To support broad queries or ambiguous information needs, providing diverse search results to users has become increasingly necessary. Aggregated search attempts to achieve diversity by presenting search results from different information sources, so-called verticals (image, video, blog, news, etc.), in addition to the standard web results, on one result page. This comes in contrast with the com...

Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a well-known risk analysis approach that has been conducted to distinguish, analyze and mitigate serious failure modes. It demonstrates the effectiveness and the ability of understanding and documenting in a clear manner; however, the FMEA has weak points and it has been criticized by some authors. For example, it does not consider relative importanc...