Context plays a crucial role for semantic similarity measurements. Depending on aspects such as location, time, task and user preferences, the respects that play a role for the comparison of concepts may vary. This variance should be reflected in a change of the similarity measurements’ results. Although this dependency has been observed in various human subject tests and is accounted for in re...

JULY/AUGUST 2009 ■ 1540-7993/09/$26.00 © 2009 IEEE ■ COPUbLIShEd bY ThE IEEE COmPUTEr And rELIAbILITY SOCIETIES 61 Lori M. KaufMan BAE Systems ers, partners, and vendors. By sharing resources at various levels, this platform offers various services, such as an infrastructure cloud (for example, hardware or IT infrastructure management), a software cloud (such as software, middleware, or traditi...

While it is well recognized that gambling behaviours are shaped by the contexts in which they occur, less research has investigated relationship between poker and substance use (i.e., alcohol other drugs). The current study explores players’ perceptions of gambling. This qualitative descriptive a secondary data analysis 25 interviews with players conducted as part broader prospective cohort pro...

The assumption of normality has underlain much the development statistics, including spatial and many tests have been proposed. In this work, we focus on multivariate setting first review recent advances in for i.i.d. data, with emphasis skewness kurtosis approaches. We show through simulation studies that some these cannot be used directly testing data. further briefly few existing univariate ...