Abstract Recommender systems for requirements are typically built on the assumption that similar can be used as proxies to retrieve software. When a stakeholder proposes new requirement, natural language processing (NLP)-based similarity metrics exploited existing requirements, and in turn, identify previously developed code. Several NLP approaches computation between available. However, there ...

This article reviews plant-borne helminth infections caused by Fasciola hepatica/gigantica and Fasciolopsis buski. Besides having similar names, both infections are caused by trematodes (flatworms or flukes). As with nearly all helminth infections, eosinophilia may be present, there is usually a delayed clinical presentation, and diagnosis is made with the proper identification of parasite eggs...

1. Improving the mechanistic basis of biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships requires a better understanding of how functional traits drive the dynamics of populations. For example, environmental disturbances or grazing may increase synchronization of functionally similar species, whereas functionally different species may show independent dynamics, because of different responses to the ...

Entity matching that finds records referring to the same entity is an important operation in data cleaning and integration. Existing studies usually use a given similarity function to quantify the similarity of records, and focus on devising index structures and algorithms for efficient entity matching. However it is a big challenge to define “how similar is similar” for real applications, sinc...

MCCUNE, B., and T. F. H. ALLEN. 1985. Will similar forests develop on similar sites? Can. J. Bot. 63: 367-376. Abies grandis, Taxus brevifolia, Thuja plicata, or any combination of these may dominate old-growth mesic forests of the Bitterroot Canyons, western Montana. Similar sites need not develop similar, relatively stable forests. This is shown by (i) anomalous distributional patterns of tre...

The current way that the air conditioning of buildings is conducted is both overly expensive and harmful to the environment. Alternatives to modern air conditioning are not common, but one potential solution lies in the deserts of Zimbabwe. Macrotermes, a genus of termites found in this region, produce mounds that thermoregulate independently. The Eastgate Centre, a building in Zimbabwe, was de...