73,004 research outputs found
Pan Magic
No full textA short story by Willi Chen entitled "Pan Magic" which tells the tale of Milton Lyons, a poor handy man- pan beater from Marabella who wanted to compete in the solo tenor pan category at the Carnival celebrations
Paramesanophrys Pan & Fan & Gao & Chen 2016, gen. nov.
No full textGenus <i>Paramesanophrys</i> gen. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 29EF1135-5A4C-4E60-8977-DAEB6EF21370</p> Diagnosis <p> Orchitophryidae with cytostome above mid-body; buccal apparatus consisting of three <i>Parauronema</i> - like membranelles; PM with zigzag structure, extending anteriorly to posterior end of M3; M1 composed of two rows of kinetids; scutica comprising basal body pairs arranged in a line parallel to somatic kineties; single caudal cilium.</p> Type species <p> <i>Paramesanophrys typica</i> gen. et sp. nov.</p> Etymology <p> The generic epithet, <i>Paramesanophrys</i>, refers to the similarity of the oral apparatus to that of the genus <i>Mesanophrys</i>.</p>Published as part of <i>Pan, Xuming, Fan, Xinpeng, Gao, Shan & Chen, Ying, 2016, Taxonomy and morphology of four " ophrys-related " scuticociliates (Protista, Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), with the description of a new genus, Paramesanophrys gen. nov., pp. 1-18 in European Journal of Taxonomy 191</i> on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.191, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3837739">http://zenodo.org/record/3837739</a>
Limits of predictability for large-scale urban vehicular mobility
No full textKey challenges in vehicular transportation and communication systems are understanding vehicular mobility and utilizing mobility prediction, which are vital for both solving the congestion problem and helping to build efficient vehicular communication networking. Most of the existing works mainly focus on designing algorithms for mobility prediction and exploring utilization of these algorithms. However, the crucial questions of how much the mobility is predictable and how the mobility predictability can be used to enhance the system performance are still the open and unsolved problems. In this paper, we consider the fundamental problem of the predictability limits of vehicular mobility. By using two large-scale urban city vehicular traces, we propose an intuitive but effective model of areas transition to describe the vehicular mobility among the areas divided by the city intersections. Based on this model, we examine the predictability limits of large-scale urban vehicular networks and obtain the maximal predictability based on the methodology of entropy theory. Our study finds that about 78%–99% of the location and above 70% of the staying time, respectively, are predicable. Our findings thus reveal that there is strong regularity in the daily vehicular mobility, which can be exploited in practical prediction algorithm design
Overview of the Author Profiling Task at PAN 2013
No full text[EN] This overview presents the framework and results for the Author Profiling
task at PAN 2013. We describe in detail the corpus and its characteristics,
and the evaluation framework we used to measure the participants performance to
solve the problem of identifying age and gender from anonymous texts. Finally,
the approaches of the 21 participants and their results are described.The author profiling task @PAN-2013 was an activity of the WIQ-EI IRSES project (Grant No. 269180) within the FP 7 Marie Curie People Framework of the European Commission. We want to thank the Forensic Lab of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona for sponsoring the award for the winner team. The work of the first author was partially funded by Autoritas Consulting SA and by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España under grant ECOPORTUNITY IPT-2012-1220-430000. The work of the second author was in the framework the DIANA-APPLICATIONS-Finding Hidden Knowledge in Texts: Applications (TIN2012-38603-C02-01) project, and the VLC/CAMPUS Microcluster on Multimodal Interaction in Intelligent Systems. The work of fifth author was funded in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project "Mining Conversational Content for Topic Modelling and Author Identification (ChatMiner)" under grant number 200021_130208.Rangel, F.; Rosso, P.; Koppel, M.; Stamatatos, E.; Inches, G. (2013). Overview of the Author Profiling Task at PAN 2013. CLEF Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation. 352-365. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/46636S35236
Author Affiliation Index: A New Approach to Marketing Journal Ranking
No full textPrevious research has adopted various methods to assess the relative quality of academic marketing journals. This study, as a replication and extension of Chen and Huang (2007), introduces the Author Affiliation Index (AAI) as an alternative approach to assessing marketing journal quality. The AAI is defined as the ratio of articles authored by faculties at the world\u27s top marketing programs divided by the total number of articles by all authors. We rank current marketing journals using the AAI approach, and provide a cross-validation of journal ratings established by previous researchers. We also study the authorship/coauthorship patterns across journals. Advantages of the AAI approach and its implications are discussed
Estimation of mean and extreme waves in the East China Seas
No full textAbstract not availableJiangxia Li, Yongping Chen, Shunqi Pan, Yi Pan, Jiayu Fang, Derrick M.A. Sow
Which disciplines form digital public health, and how do they relate to each other?: Chen-Chia Pan
No full textA standard public health definition, coined by Acheson in 1998 and adapted by the World Health Organization, describes public health as ‘the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society’. Several other definitions emphasise different foci such as living conditions, the efficient use and equitable distribution of resources, or sustainability. Yet, they all share the dual nature as a science and practice of public health, its focus on the health of entire populations, and its interdisciplinary nature. In particular, joint efforts of individual disciplines are needed to combine subject matter knowledge and approaches to protect and promote population health. Traditional core public health disciplines comprise the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and environmental sciences. Their key tasks are summarised in the ten essential public health services, which can be further extended to digital public health. This extension leads to increasing use and integration of technological innovation and advancement into public health functions which require intensive collaborations with disciplines from the engineering field. In this presentation, we aim to describe the transition from public health to digital public health, emphasising the disciplines needed to tackle population health challenges in a digitalised world. In a first step, we will illustrate core disciplines and their sub-disciplines that are traditionally known in the public health field. In a second step, we will introduce further core and sub-disciplines prominent in digital public health. Finally, we will briefly present examples of key strengths and challenges of some of the disciplines. After this presentation, workshop participants should have a first understanding of the role and importance of interdisciplinarity in digital public health. Stefanie Do will host the table on epidemiology during the world coffee
Positioning in Chinese digital television network using TDS-OFDM signals
No full textDue to wide coverage and high transmission power of digital television (DTV) transmitters, DTV-based wireless positioning is a promising complementary to global positioning system. For Chinese DTV broadcasting network whose key technology is time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM), this paper proposes a timefrequency joint positioning scheme by utilising TDS-OFDM signal properties in both the time and frequency domains. The proposed scheme needs no modification of current infrastructures, and has no impact on the normal TV program reception. Simulation results show that the positioning accuracy of less than 0.1 m can be achieved when the signal-to-noise ratio is higher than 20 dB over the realistic simulated channels
An Integrative Approach to R&D Cost Budgeting
No full textSheng-Der Pan and Rosita S. Chen are Professors of Accounting at California State University at Fresno
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