Studies show that about 50% of web search is for information exploration purpose, where a user would like to investigate, compare, evaluate, and synthesize multiple relevant results. Due to the absence of general tools that can effectively analyze and differentiate multiple results, a user has to manually read and comprehend potentially large results in an exploratory search. Such a process is ...

Glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) is routinely used test to monitor long term glycaemic control in diabetic patients. It is well known that genetic variants and chemically modified derivatives of haemoglobin can profoundly affect the accuracy of HbA1c measurements. The degree of interference depends on the HbA1c assay method, type & quantum of haemoglobin variant present in a given sample. Here,...

This paper is devoted to clarify the only theoretical result included in the controversial work of C. Elkan “The paradoxical success of fuzzy logic” (1994), by offering both a short proof of it and a larger one that tries to show the structural reasons of such result.

Search result diversification has been effectively employed to tackle query ambiguity, particularly in the context of web search. However, ambiguity can manifest differently in different search verticals, with ambiguous queries spanning, e.g., multiple place names, content genres, or time periods. In this paper, we empirically investigate the need for diversity across four different verticals o...

Ranking in information retrieval has been traditionally approached as a pursuit of relevant information, under the assumption that the users’ information needs are unambiguously conveyed by their submitted queries. Nevertheless, as an inherently limited representation of a more complex information need, every query can arguably be considered ambiguous to some extent. In order to tackle query am...

Laser radar, more popularly known as LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) uses electromagnetic radiation at optical frequencies. LIDAR has become an excellent tool for monitoring the atmosphere in a relatively short period of time (a few seconds to minutes). Currently, LIDAR systems are used for studying the atmospheric structure and dynamics, trace constituents, aerosols, clouds, boundary and m...

The traditional execution mode of CHR is bottom-up, that is, given a goal, the result is computed by exhaustively applying rules. This paper proposes a result-directed execution mode for CHR, to be used when both the goal and the result are known, and the task is to find all corresponding derivations. Result-directed execution is needed in the context of CHRiSM, a probabilistic extension of CHR...

We develop and illustrate a very simple eikonal technique in the framework of one-particle quantum mechanics for calculating radiation during scattering and apply it to derive the celebrated result of Bethe and Maximon for bremsstrahlung from a point coulomb target with a large charge Ze . This approach is a modification of that developed in a previous paper for calculating radiation during the...

It is pointed out that, one of the results in the recently published article, ’On the Iyengar-Madhava Rao-Nanjundiah inequality and it’s hyperbolic version’ [3] by J´ozsef S´andor is logically incorrect and new corrected result with it’s proof is presented.