Two independent lines of inquiry suggest that growing up under conditions of contextual adversity (e.g., poverty and household chaos) accelerates aging and undermines long-term health. Whereas work addressing the developmental origins of health and disease highlights accelerated-aging effects of contextual adversity on telomere erosion, that informed by an evolutionary analysis of reproductive ...

On the speech side of the bridge is the visual material within each panel. Indeed, the absence of an immediate contextual envelop is a primary factor distinguishing writing from speech. In comic books, however, each illustration supplies a visual context through which the reader easily enters the instantial world. She/He sees characters operating within their world, characters who in turn see a...

For many linguistic investigations, the first step is to find examples. In the 21st century, they should all be found, not invented. Thus linguists need flexible tools for finding even quite rare phenomena. To support linguists well, they need to be fast even where corpora are very large and queries are complex. We present extensions to the CQL ’Corpus Query Language’ for intuitive creation of ...

When interacting with a system, users often request information about an entity by specifying a string that may have multiple possible interpretations. Humans are quite good at recognizing when an ambiguity exists and resolving the ambiguity given contextual cues. This disambiguation task is more complicated in automated systems. As systems have more and more different entities and entity types...

The traditional preference mining setting, referred to here as the batch setting, has been widely studied in the literature in recent years. However, the dynamic nature of the problem of mining preferences increasingly requires solutions that quickly adapt to change. The main reason for this is that frequently user’s preferences are not static and can evolve over time. In this paper, we formall...

leadership from social justice organizations that work collaboratively with broad-based grassroots constituencies? And, what can we learn about cooperative-inquiry as a valuable practice for this kind of leadership? This chapter extracts lessons about social justice leadership and about the use of cooperative-inquiry as a vehicle for conducting participatory social research from six cooperative...

In this paper we describe our efforts for TREC Contextual Suggestion task. Our goal of this year is to evaluate the effectiveness of (1) an opinion-based method to model user profiles and rank candidate suggestions; and (2) a template-based summarization method that leverages the information from multiple resources to generate the description of a candidate suggestion. Existing approaches often...

The TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion task aims at providing recommendations on points of attraction for different kind of users and a varying context. Our group DPLAB IITBHU tries to recommend relevant point-of-interests to a user based on the information provided on the candidate attractions and her past preferences. We employ open-web information in a novel way to capture the best possible set...

Great product ideas come from a marriage of the detailed understanding of a customer need with the in-depth understanding of technology. The best product designs happen when the product’s designers are involved in collecting and interpreting customer data and appreciate what real people need. Contextual Design gives designers the tools to do just that. Contextual Design starts with the recognit...

Much published work on contextual image classification is based on an assumption of class-conditional independence (CCI) of the measurement data equivalent to assuming that an ideal classifier will recover the underlying true scene, with errors evenly and randomly distributed as white noise. This paper proposes a simple alternative model which, it is argued, is more realistic in many applicatio...