We consider the classification of German news stories as either focusing on future-directed beliefs and intentions or lacking these. The method proposed in this article requires only a small set of labeled training data. Rather, we introduce German clues for the automatic identification of future-orientation which are used for automatic labeling of Reuters news stories. We describe the developm...

The distinction among urban, periurban and rural areas represents a classical example of uncertainty in land classification. Satellite images, geostatistical analysis and all kinds of spatial data are very useful in urban sprawl studies, but it is important to define precise rules in combining great amounts of data to build complex knowledge about territory. Rough Set theory may be a useful met...

The effect on parametric instability growth of pump wave incoherence is treated by deriving a set of equations governing the space-time evolution of the ensemble-average coupled-mode amplitudes and intensities. Particular attention is paid to establishing the regions of validity of the statistical description. Thresholds, growth rates, and amplification rates are given for both spatially and te...

The calibration of probability or confidence judgments concerns the association between the judgments and some estimate of the correct probabilities of events. Researchers rely on estimates using relative frequencies computed by aggregating data over observations. We show that this approach creates conceptual problems, and may result in the confounding of explanatory variables or unstable estim...

purpose: having a clinical information system is a good solution for monitoring medical problems. this system is designed to improve the speed and accuracy of data management. the goal is to replace medical records with a clinical information system to support storing, processing and distributing data in all the sections of a healthcare center. the purpose of this research was to determine the ...