... line dangling on the bottom of letters. Look carefully at the bottoms ofthe letters in this and the next sentence. You will most easily see these lines on the bottoms ofthe letters “m” and ... because the measurement is taken according to the “x-height” ofthe font, a variable number based on the height of a lower case “x” rather than an average of all the letters in the font.56 The ... amount oftext on the page — also affects legibility. At the time ofthe Tinker and Paterson studies, the average book devoted a little more than 50% ofthe page to print. This is known as the...
... element ofthe vector usually represents a word (or a group of words) of the document collection, i.e. the size ofthe vector is defined by the number of words (orgroups of words) ofthe complete ... Furthermore, the distribution of keyword search results can be visualized bycoloring the grid cells ofthe map with respect to the number of hits. This allows a userto judge e.g. whether the ... from the number of clusters is the silhouette coefficient SC(P) (cf. [KR90]). The main idea ofthe coef-ficient is to find out the location of a document in the space with respect to the clusterof...
... Summary of Univariate Comparisons of Failed and Surviving Banks The results of t-tests on the differences in the means ofthe explanatory variables for earlier years with respect to the 2009 ... the 2008 data retain significance for the 2004 data—five years prior to the observed outcome of failure or survival. Only the capital ratio loses significance. Moreover, the prominence ofthe ... respectively. The coefficients in the table represent the marginal effect of a change in the relevant independent variable, when all variables are evaluated at their means. The results in the first...
... ofthe 12th Conference ofthe European Chapter ofthe ACL, pages 139–147,Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009.c2009 Association for Computational LinguisticsPredicting the fluency oftext ... between text quality assess-ment ofthe articles and the percentage of fluentsentences according to different models. text, and levels of fluency in the automatically pro-duced text. The distinctions ... 2008). The average ofthe assessments was taken as a singlenumber describing the article. The correlation be-tween this number and the percentage of fluentsentences in the article according to the...
... architecture. In the North and West, meanwhile, under the growing institutions ofthe papacy and ofthe monastic orders and the emergence of a feudal civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the ... this volume, in which are gathered some ofthe results of recent investigations and ofthe architectural progress of the last few years which could not readily be introduced into thetextof ... name ofthe deity is Jagannath; the English name-form led to A Text- Book ofthe History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised PREFACE. The aim ofthis work has been to sketch the...
... poursuivront, en vertu des Lois,Décrets et Traités internationaux, toutes contrefaçons, soit du texte, soit desgravures, et toutes traductions, faites au mépris de leurs droits.Le dépôt légal ... la normale à la seconde surface.THÉORIEDESFONCTIONS ELLIPTIQUESPARMM. BRIOTETBOUQUET,PROFESSEURS A LA FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES,MAITRES DE CONFÉRENCES A L’ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE.DEUXIÈME ... de leurs brillantes découvertes.Nous devons rappeler que M. Liouville a exposé, dans un cours professé auCollège de France, une théorie des fonctions elliptiques basée sur la considé-ration...
... vector of each word from the centroid of its closest cluster, and to assign the differential vector to the most appropriate other cluster. This process can be repeated until the length ofthe ... vocabulary.1 Note that the cor-rect assignment ofthe ambiguous words to clusters is not required at this stage, as this is taken care of in the next step. This step involves computing the differential ... assignments. The results from this procedure are shown in ta-ble 2 where for each ofthe 50 words all computed classes are given in the order as they were obtained by the algorithm, i.e. the dominant...
... inflected forms analyzed, and other modifications ofthe kind often brought under the rubric of "transformations." The LSP can do this sort of thing very welL The defining words also need ... sample definition and the triples the parser found in it. ABDOMEN 0 1 N THE PART OFTHE BODY BETWEEN THE THORAX AND THE PELVIS (THE) pmod (PART) (ABDOMEN 0 1 N) lm (THE) (ABDOMEN 0 1 N) ... We extracted the set of intransitive verb definitions, suspecting that these would be the easiest to work with. This is the smallest ofthe four major 219 Semantic Analysis of Definitions...
... comments to the paper. tion requirement. Unfortunately one ofthe cur- rent trends in IE is the progressive reduction of the size of training corpora: e.g., from the 1,000 texts ofthe MUC-5 ... entries in the lexicon. The BL could be seen as the complementary set of the FL with respect to the generic language, i.e. it contains all the words ofthe language that do not belong to the FL. ... mentioned, there are two problems related to the use of generic dictionaries with respect to the IE needs. First there is no clear way of extracting from them the mapping between the FL and the...
... BioterrorismBioterrorismSince the September 11 bombings in the United States, the locality ofthis virus has become less isolated as the threat of bioterrorism looms large. The Ebola virus is now on the “A” ... on ideas of right and wrong when dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. This concept of can be used to explain the world’s shockingly small response to the Ebola ... that the disease will progress to the second phase, resulting in complications which eventually lead to death (Mupapa et al., 1999). Controlling the spread of Ebola Controlling the spread of...
... leader ofthe sanitaryreformation ofthis century. The favour the Address has receivedindicates notably two facts: the advance of public opinion on the subject of public health, and the remarkable ... drink, for to- the beauty but to the healthiness of the city. The large houses ofthe wealthy aresituated in a similar manner. The streets ofthe city are pavedthroughout with the same material. ... ventilation of the houses is carried out by a common andsimple plan. The cheerfulness of the fireside is not sacrificed; there is still the open grate in every room, but at the back ofthe firestove there...
... honor, honesty and fair dealing of the Agency. We court the fullest andfreest investigation, either by patientsthemselves or any friends of theirs in this city, either of whom we shall behappy to ... is the mostcommon cause, and we therefore give it the most prominence. The others we willname briefly in about the order of theirfrequency.1. MARRIAGE EXCESSES.—A very the reputation of ourphysicians ... bereft of every trace of reason,all sense of shame, still practicing the horrible vice that has driven everysemblance of humanity from their facesand the very light of reason from theirface,...
... diameter. The administration ofthe sewers, in the time ofthe Republic, was in the hands of the censors, but special officers calledcuratores cloacarum were employedduring the Empire, and the workmenwho ... tended to the decay of courage and thus to lessen the prowess ofthe Roman legions, but therewas compensation for this state of affairs at the heart ofthe Empire becausestrong streams of capable ... returns."It was the custom for patients to sleepunder the portico ofthe Temple of Æsculapius, hoping that the god of the healing art might inspire them in dreamsas to the system of cure they shouldadopt...
... from the views and interests of public men. But, on the other hand, this very pressure of an all-surrounding public life brings private men closer together. There they stand, while the tides of ... year, and on the 2d May, 1839, it was dedicated, under the name ofthe Church ofthe Messiah. The burning of our sanctuary had [80] proved to be our upbuilding; the position ofthe Stuyvesant ... as the ages vary, yet the experience ofthe individual is buta picture ofthe universal mind, ofthe world's mind. The steps are the same, ignorance, fear, superstition,implicit faith; then...