| The Curse of Free-will and the Paradox of Inevitable Regret |
07 Dec 2010 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Judea Pearl; CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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 | The paradox described below aims to clarify the principles by which empirical data is harnessed to guide decision making. It is motivated by the practical question of whether empirical assessments of the Effect of Treatment on the Treated (ETT) can be useful for either policy evaluation or personal decisions. |
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| Evaluation of Chemical Clarification Polymers and Methods for Removal of Dissolved Metals from CDF Effluent |
JUL 2006 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Susan E. Bailey; Sangchul Hwang; Michael C> Brooks; Paul R. Schroeder; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS
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| Clarification processes used to separate solid and liquid phases in the dredging slurry discharged to confined disposal facilities (CDFs) have typically consisted of sedimentation and chemical flocculation. Clarification is intended for removal of solids from CDF effluent, and in doing so, much of the metals contamination is also removed with the solids. Likewise, the ability of the chemical flocculation to remove dissolved phase contaminants should also be considered, since this ... |
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| Homeland Defense: National Guard Bureau Needs to Clarify Civil Support Teams' Mission and Address Management Challenges |
MAY 2006 |
88 pages |
| Authors:
Davi M. D'Agostino; Ann Borseth; Bari L. Bendell; Jaclyn A. Bowland; David A. Brown; Carole F. Coffey; Lee Cooper; Joseph W. Kirschbaum; David A. Mayfield; Walter K. Vance; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| To prepare for potential attacks in the United States involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Congress approved the development of National Guard Civil Support Teams (CST) tasked to identify chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive weapons; assess consequences; advise civil authorities on response measures; and assist with requests for additional support. Thus far, 36 of the 55 approved teams have been fully certified to conduct their mission. The National ... |
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| A Menagerie of Tracks at Maryland: HARD, Enterprise, QA, and Genomics, Oh My! |
2006 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Jimmy Lin; Eileen Abels; Dina Demner-Fushman; Douglas W. Oard; Philip Wu; Yejun Wu; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK INST FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER STUDIES
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| This year, the University of Maryland participated in four separate tracks: HARD, enterprise, question answering, and genomics. Our HARD experiments involved a trained intermediary who searched for documents on behalf of the user, created clarification forms manually, and exploited user responses accordingly. The aim was to better understand the nature of single-iteration clarification dialogs and to develop an "ontology of clarifications" that can be leveraged to guide system development. For ... |
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| Improving Passage Retrieval Using Interactive Elicition and Statistical Modeling |
2006 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Daqing He; Dina Demner-Fushman; Douglas W. Oard; Damianos Karakos; Sanjeev Khudanpur; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK INST FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER STUDIES
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| The University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University worked together in the 2004 High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track to explore design options for interactive passage retrieval systems. HARD assessors responded to clarification forms by (1) selected additional search terms from an automatically constructed list of potentially discriminating terms, (2) selected relevant passages from an automatically constructed list of possibly relevant passages, and (3) entered additional search terms. Query ... |
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| HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Analytical Question Answering |
2004 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Sharon Small; Tomek Strzalkowski; STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
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| In this paper we describe the analytic question answering system HITIQA (High-Quality Interactive Question Answering) which has been developed over the last 2 years as an advanced research tool for information analysts. HITIQA is an interactive open-domain question answering technology designed to allow analysts to pose complex exploratory questions in natural language and obtain relevant information units to prepare their briefing reports. The system uses novel data-driven semantics to conduct ... |
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| UMass at TREC 2004: Novelty and HARD |
2004 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Nasreen Abdul-Jaleel; James Allan; W. B. Croft; Fernando Diaz; Leah Larkey; Xiaoyan Li; Mark D. Smucker; Courtney Wade; MASSACHUSETTS UNIV AMHERST CENTER FOR INTELLIGENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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| For the TREC 2004 Novelty track, UMass participated in all four tasks. Although finding relevant sentences was harder this year than last, we continue to show marked improvements over the baseline of calling all sentences relevant, with a variant of tfidf being the most successful approach. We achieve 5-9% improvements over the baseline in locating novel sentences, primarily by looking at the similarity of a sentence to earlier sentences and ... |
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| A Concept Analysis of Nursing Case Management |
01 MAY 96 |
116 pages |
| Authors:
Kim Simmons; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| This investigation examined the concept of nursing case management using Rodgers' (1993) framework of concept analysis. A comprehensive computer search of literature indexed in the disciplines of nursing, medicine, psychology, and sociology yielded a sample of 351 articles in which nursing case management was addressed. Since many descriptions of nursing case management exist, there is difficulty and confusion in defining the role of nursing in case management. This finding, in ... |
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| Lesson Plan for Department of Defense Policy on Homosexual Conduct. Officer Accession Programs, General Military Training, Command Indoctrination, Navy Rights and Responsibilities, Policy Administrators, Commanders |
15 AUG 95 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC
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| The lesson plan has been designed to provide information on DoD policy on homosexual conduct. |
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| Storm Evolution of Directional Seas in Shallow Water |
FEB 94 |
133 pages |
| Authors:
Charles E. Long; COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER VICKSBURG MS
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| Measured storm wave frequency-direction spectra are presented to illustrate the evolution of wind wave energy distributions near times of high energy. Twenty-nine storm events, extracted from a 5-year database, are identified and described. Instrumentation consists of a nine-element linear array of bottom-mounted pressure gauges distributed along the 8-m isobath about 900 m offshore of Duck, NC, site of the Field Research Facility (FRF) of the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways ... |
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| Clarification of the Lithium Interface Phenomena |
NOV 1993 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Bruno Scrosati; UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI LA SAPIENZA ROME(ITALY) DIPT DI CHIMICA
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| In these report we continue to describe the results obtained in the course of the investigation of the electrochemical properties of gel-type polymer electrolytes formed by immobilization of liquid solutions (e.g., solutions of lithium salts in propylene carbonate-ethylene carbonate, PC/EC mixtures) in polymer (e.g., poly(acrylonitrile), PAN) matrices. In particular, we have continued to investigate the characteristics and the properties of the interface with the ... |
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| Clarification Dialogues: A Step Toward-Semantic-Level interaction Paradigms |
OCT 92 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Peter Aberg; Robert T. Neches; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES INST
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| Interface designers typically think of dialogs in terms of low-level, relatively syntactic interactions such as menu selections. When trying to make systems with complex information spaces more accessible to users, however, providing graphical user interfaces that deal mainly with such low-level presentation concerns is only part of the solution. Of greater importance is the use of interaction paradigms based on a notion of well-defined, higher-level dialog games in human-to-human interaction, ... |
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| Collaborating on Referring Expressions |
AUG 92 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Peter A. Heeman; Graeme Hirst; ROCHESTER UNIV NY DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in order to make a referring action successful. The model is based on the view of language as goal-directed behavior. We propose that the content of a referring expression can be accounted for by the planning paradigm. Not only does this approach allow the processes of building referring expressions and identifying their referents to be captured by plan construction ... |
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| Software Measurement Concepts for Acquisition Program Managers |
MAY 92 |
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| Authors:
Jim Rozum; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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 | For program managers to effectively manage and control software development, they need to incorporate a measurement process into their decision making and reporting process. Measurement costs money, but it can also save money through early problem detection and objective clarification of critical software development issues. This report provides some basic concepts that program managers can use to help integrate measurement into the process for managing software development. It also provides ... |
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| Beach Reclamation and Dredged Material Disposal for Marine Environment Improvement, |
APR 1992 |
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| Authors:
Yutaka Matsubara; NEW ORLEANS BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE PORT LA
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| The Bureau of Ports and Harbors, Ministry of Transport, is engaged in a number of sea bottom management operations. These operations consist of the prevention of harbor pollution, implemented primarily by dredging bottom sediments, and a study of sea bottom sediment clarification designed to eliminate organic sediment in bays and inland seas. In implementing these projects, one very significant problem that must be solved is disposal of the dredged material. ... |
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| Efficacy of Aquapure Emergency Water Purification Tablets |
FEB 92 |
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| Authors:
Edmund M. Powers; Carlos Hernandez; ARMY NATICK RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER MA
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| Aquapure (AP) emergency water purification tablets were tested for bactericidal, viricidal, and cysticidal efficacy; removal of turbidity and chemical agents in water at temperatures ranging from 5 deg C to 25 deg C; and storage stability. Contact times, in test water in test water recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ranged from 5 to 180 minutes. The minimal required reduction was achieved for bacteria and recoveries within 5 minutes, ... |
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| New Bedford Harbor Superfund Project, Acushnet River Estuary Engineering Feasibility Study of Dredging and Dredged Material Disposal Alternatives. Report 7. Settling and Chemical Clarification Tests |
NOV 88 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Roy Wade; ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS ENVIRONMENTAL LAB
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| One alternative for cleanup of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site is dredging the contaminated sediments and placement into an upland or intertidal confined disposal facility (CDF). The conceptual design of either facility requires an evaluation of the settling properties of the dredged material to estimate storage requirements and effluent suspended solids concentrations. Suspended solids reduction beyond gravity settling may be achieved by chemical clarification. Laboratory column tests were performed ... |
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| Evaluating and Improving Water Treatment Plant Processes at Fixed Army Installations |
MAY 85 |
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| Authors:
L. E. Lang; J. T. Bandy; E. D. Smith; CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB (ARMY) CHAMPAIGN IL
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| Research was conducted to: (1) determine processes at Army water treatment facilities that may be inadequate to meet recent regulatory requirements on potable water; (2) develop a method of relating treatment processes with treatment plant inadequacies and identifying design, operation, and maintenance criteria that could be altered to solve problems and improve performance; and (3) present, in an understandable form, proven new technologies and operational changes that will help solve ... |
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