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    Author Identifcation in Short Texts

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    Most research on author identification considers large texts. Not many research is done on author identification for short texts, while short texts are commonly used since the rise of digital media. The anonymous nature of internet applications offers possibilities to use the internet for illegitimate purposes. In these cases, it can be very useful to be able to predict who the author of a message is. Van der Knaap and Grootjen [28] showed that authors of short texts can be identified using single words (word unigrams) with Formal Concept Analysis. In theory, grammatical information can also be used as an indication of the author of the text. Grammatical information can be captured by word bigrams. Word bigrams are pairs of successive words, so they reveal some information on the sentence structure the author used. For this thesis I performed experiments using word bigrams as features for author identification to determine whether performance increases compared to using word unigrams as features. In most languages many grammatical relations within a sentence are between words that are not successive. The DUPIRA parser, a natural language parser for Dutch, produces dependency triplets that represent relations between non successive words, based on the Dutch grammar. I used these triplets as features, either alone or in combination with unigrams or bigrams. People often use smileys when communicating with someone using digital media. Therefore, I also examined the influence of smileys on author identification. The messages used for the experiments are obtained from the subsection `Eurovision Songfestival 2010' of the fok.nl message board. With these messages the data files for 7 feature sets were constructed: word unigrams excluding smileys, word unigrams including smileys, word bigrams excluding smileys, word bigrams including smileys, only dependency triplets, triplets+word unigrams, triplets+word bigrams. A support vector machine algorithm (SVM) was used as the classification method. This is a commonly used algorithm for author identification. There are different implementations of SVM. In this thesis SMO, LibSVM and LibLINEAR are compared. The LibLINEAR algorithm gave the best results. The results revealed that in all conditions the performance is above chance level. So all reveal some information about the author. The performance for the word unigrams including smileys showed the best results, while the performance using the dependency triplets is the lowest. Results also revealed that when smileys are considered the performance increases, so smileys provide additional information about the author

    Polymer multimode waveguide optical and electronic PCB manufacturing

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    The paper describes the research in the £1.3 million IeMRC Integrated Optical and Electronic Interconnect PCB Manufacturing (OPCB) Flagship Project in which 8 companies and 3 universities carry out collaborative research and which was formed and is technically led by the author. The consortium’s research is aimed at investigating a range of fabrication techniques, some established and some novel, for fabricating polymer multimode waveguides from several polymers, some formulations of which are being developed within the project. The challenge is to develop low cost waveguide manufacturing techniques compatible with commercial PCB manufacturing and to reduce their alignment cost. The project aims to take the first steps in making this hybrid optical waveguide and electrical copper track printed circuit board disruptive technology widely available by establishing and incorporating waveguide design rules into commercial PCB layout software and transferring the technology for fabricating such boards to a commercial PCB manufacturer. To focus the research the project is designing an optical waveguide backplane to tight realistic constraints, using commercial layout software with the new optical design rules, for a demonstrator into which 4 daughter cards are plugged, each carrying an aggregate of 80 Gb/s data so that each waveguide carries 10 Gb/s

    Il problema del fondamento in F.A. Lange

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    Il contributo di F.A. Lange, autore della nota "Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart", alla ripresa del pensiero kantiano. Centralità della "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" e della sua rivoluzione. La "psychophysische Organisation" alla base dell'attività teoretica.The contribution of Fr. Albert Lange, author of the famous "Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart", to the "zurück zu Kant". The key role of “Kritik der reinen Vernunft” and its revolution. The “psychophysische Organisation” at the base of theoretical activity

    Author Correction: Human neutrophils phagocytose and kill Acinetobacter baumannii and A. pittii

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    Adrián Fernández was omitted from the author list in the original version of this Article. This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information file. The updated Author List now reads: María Lázaro-Díez, Itziar Chapartegui-González, Santiago Redondo-Salvo, Chike Leigh, David Merino, David San Segundo, Adrián Fernández, Jesús Navas, José Manuel Icardo, Félix Acosta, Alain Ocampo-Sosa, Luis Martínez-Martínez & José Ramos-Vivas The Author Contributions section now reads: J.R.V. conceived the experiments, J.R.V and D.S.S. designed the experiments, M.L.D., I.C.G., S.R.S., C.L., D.M., A. F., F.A., A.O.S., J.M.I. and J.R.V. performed the experiments, M.L.D., I.C.G., J.N., F.A., J.M.I. L.M.M. and J.R.V. analyzed the data, A.O.S., D.S.S., J.N., F.A., J.M.I. contributed with reagents/materials/analysis tools, J.R.V. wrote the paper. All authors reviewed the manuscript.1,244,379Q1Q1SCI

    Non-Markovian quantum processes: Complete framework and efficient characterization

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    Currently, there is no systematic way to describe a quantum process with memory solely in terms of experimentally accessible quantities. However, recent technological advances mean we have control over systems at scales where memory effects are non-negligible. The lack of such an operational description has hindered advances in understanding physical, chemical, and biological processes, where often unjustified theoretical assumptions are made to render a dynamical description tractable. This has led to theories plagued with unphysical results and no consensus on what a quantum Markov (memoryless) process is. Here, we develop a universal framework to characterize arbitrary non-Markovian quantum processes. We show how a multitime non-Markovian process can be reconstructed experimentally, and that it has a natural representation as a many-body quantum state, where temporal correlations are mapped to spatial ones. Moreover, this state is expected to have an efficient matrix-product-operator form in many cases. Our framework constitutes a systematic tool for the effective description of memory-bearing open-system evolutions

    Operational Markov Condition for Quantum Processes

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    We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a quantum process to be Markovian which coincides with the classical one in the relevant limit. Our condition unifies all previously known definitions for quantum Markov processes by accounting for all potentially detectable memory effects. We then derive a family of measures of non-Markovianity with clear operational interpretations, such as the size of the memory required to simulate a process or the experimental falsifiability of a Markovian hypothesis

    The Case Against Redistribution: F.A. Hayek on Social Justice

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    In this thesis, F.A. Hayek\u27s argument is against social justice is given context, discussed, and evaluated. Hayek was one of the leading voices of libertarian ideology in the Twentieth Century. While Road to Serfdom is his most popular work, Hayek\u27s philosophy is most fully expressed in his three volume set, Law, Legislation and Liberty. His thoughts against social justice are found the in the second volume, entitled The Mirage of Social Justice. It is the conclusion of the author that Hayek\u27s argument against social justice, in the form of redistribution, falls short as it depends on a presupposition that an evolutionary moral and legal process will necessarily end in securing a libertarian style of government. The only possible means of salvaging the argument would to accept inherent and inviolable human rights, which Hayek fundamentally rejects as he claims the Kantian tradition

    La función del juez en el pensamiento de F.A. Hayek

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    This paper shows the relationship between the due process and the liberal theory of law of Friedrich Hayek. The author highlights the rules of just conduct in contrast of result rules. The author sustains that Hayek’s theory applies not only to substantive law, but also to adjective law. At the same time, he explains the function of judges in a liberal order in contrast to the activist approach. As a conclusion, the author defends that an adversarial system founded in rules of just conduct is vital for a Free Society, in opposition to an inquisitorial system, or a mixture of them.En este artículo se aborda la relación entre debido proceso y la teoría liberal del derecho de F.A. Hayek, con énfasis en las normas de recta conducta en contraposición a las normas de resultado. Se postula que la teoría de Hayek no sólo es aplicable al derecho sustancial, sino que también al derecho procesal. Al mismo tiempo, se explica la misión del juez en un orden liberal y garantista, contraria a la postura activista del juez. Concluyendo que un sistema acusatorio fundado en normas de recta conducta es indispensable para una Sociedad Libre, en oposición a sistemas inquisitivos o mixtos
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