Links between documents have been shown to be useful in various Information Retrieval (IR) tasks for example, Google has been telling us for many years now that the PageRank authority measure is at the heart of its relevance calculations. To use such link analysis techniques in a search engine, special tools are required to store the link matrix of the collection of documents, due to the high n...

The complexity of a network of workstations and modern networked applications can make performance tuning di cult. A telling comment from one networker was \You know you're on a network when some system you've never heard of comes up on your console and hangs your machine!". This paper aims to provide techniques for troubleshooting and tuning your network, and is organised into the following se...

Story telling program is an activity of story or stories to users from groups children. The purpose in the library attract children want visit and reduce children's desire play using gadgets. This has a positive impact on character development improves ability understand reading material. One things that must be prepared organizing activities librarian master techniques so feel satisfied always...

Stories and story-telling are a cultural achievement of significant relevance, even in modern times. Since ancient times stories have served to entertain and teach mankind to “transmit” knowledge from generation to generation. Story-telling ranges from simple aural narrations to traditional inter-generational discourse and, in modern times, workflow-oriented organizational learning. Web-based s...

Problem Truth-telling is an important component of respect for patients' self-determination, but in the context of breaking bad news, it is also a distressing and difficult task. Intervention We investigated the long-term influence of a simulated patient-based teaching intervention, integrating learning objectives in communication skills and ethics into students' attitudes and concerns regardin...

This work is motivated by a question at the heart of unsupervised learning approaches: Assume we are collecting a number K of (subjective) opinions about some event E from K different agents. Can we infer E from them? Prima facie this seems impossible, since the agents may be lying. We model this task by letting the events be distributed according to some distribution p and the task is to estim...

Touch is an important and often underutilized sense in human-computer interaction. For those with hearing or seeing impairments, touch becomes even more important and may be the only suitable communication channel. Touch can also be used to convey information discreetly. Also time plays a crucial role in our daily lives and therefore telling the time is very important. The two main subjects of ...

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