... DARPA and NASA, and by Interval Research, and the industrial partners ofthe Stanford Digital Libraries Project References Best oftheWeb 1994 Navigators http://botw.org/1994/awards/navigators.html ... to PageRank, again see [Page 98] Another intuitive justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages that point to it and ... with the docID that the anchor points to It also generates a database of links which are pairs of docIDs The links database is used to compute PageRanks for all the documents The sorter takes the...
... level of satisfaction, a lack of standard satisfaction scales and the proliferation and excessive use of surveys (Altany, 1993; Mehta, 1990) Additional problems mentioned are haphazard sampling ... questionnaires that are delivered to a sample ofthe customer base These quantitative multi-attribute questionnaires are then analyzed via statistical techniques To ensure the reliability and generalizability ... important to differentiate whether CSM is focusing on the satisfaction ofthe customer organization as a whole or the satisfaction of certain individuals within that organization These are clearly...
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... clicks on an ad on a search results page, or follows a link associated with a referral account, the agent arrives at a landing page A landing page is aweb page that an advertiser pays a search engine ... referral deal, aweb site, A, pays another web site, R, for sending web traffic to AWeb site R puts links to web site A on its web pages In a CPC referral deal, web site A pays web site R a referral ... to the subsyndicator In effect, in a subsyndication deal, the syndicator acts as a relay or a proxy for the ad network The subsyndicator earns a share ofthe syndicator’s share ofthe CPC paid...
... operations are concerned The widespread availability of high-quality broadband services (for videoconferencing among other applications) would also substantially increase the capacity of U.S law ... Litan, Strobe Talbott, Michael Armacost before him, and Chris Kelaher and all the people at Brookings Institution Press And finally, I must thank the staffs of Balthazar in New York and ofthe cafés ... realize the largest potential gains in these areas, particularly in videoconferencing Broadband issues also have significant national security implications for the United States In the wake of the...
... signal or the output of an actual switch Such signals can be used to label the brain signals and to evaluate the performance ofa BI The data analysis of individuals with motor disabilities was ... event-related potentials by means of fast wavelet transform Brain Lang 1999, 66:129-145 Samar VJ, Bopardikar A, Rao R, Swartz K: Wavelet analysis of neuroelectric waveforms: A conceptual tutorial Brain ... the feature classifier A moving average and a debounce algorithm are employed to improve the performance ofthe system by reducing the number of false activations The parameter values ofthe system...
... document in another domain We can now compose a new definition ofthe Semantic Web: a machineprocessable webof smart data Furthermore, we can further define smart data as data that is application- independent, ... WebThe path to machine-processable data is to make the data smarter All ofthe technologies in this book are the foundations What Is the Semantic Web? ofa systematic approach to creating “smart ... “semantic algebra.” This allows the combination and recombination of data at a more atomic level and very fine-grained analysis of data Thus, in this stage, data no longer exists as a blob but as...
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... simulation for analyzing the pathology of human diseases should not approximate the "mathematical steady state" Moreover, in the case where the system reaches a steady state with a certain oscillation, ... solve the problems associated with developing a model that simulates all the cellular metabolic pathways The mathematical steady state may not be the normal state of real cells During this simulation ... hexokinase and pyruvate kinase, and the maximum activity of these enzymes was allowed to change according to the ratio of GSH and GSSG The equations and parameters used are derived from the literature...
... pneumonia (HAP), healthcareassociated pneumonia (HCAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) at medical centers: the IMPACT-HAP Project (abstract) 48th Annual ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting Washington, ... repository Validation of data quality was also performed at the IMPACT-HAP study center Initial empiric therapy was classified as appropriate if the isolated pathogen was susceptible to at least one ... ventilator-associated, hospital-acquired and healthcare associated pneumonia: the IMPACT-HAP Project (abstract) 18th Annual Scientific Meeting ofThe Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Orlando,...
... knowledge (the applicationof data), not just raw data, is the most important The organization that can this will make the most ofthe resources that it has—and will have a competitive advantage Knowledge ... information, and save you a lot of time and work If you had a corporate knowledge base that could be searched and analyzed by software agents, you could have Web- based applications that save you a ... or meta data An often-used definition of meta data is “data about data.” We discuss the details ofthe XML syntax later For now what is important is that XML standardizes a simple, text-based...
... programming (which created a new category of database called object-oriented database management systems, or OODBMS) XML has even spawned a new category of databases called native XML databases ... we attach sentences? What about paragraphs? While the approach toward meta data evolution will not follow natural language description, it is a good analogy for the inadequacy of words alone The ... A SOAP body that contains the application- specific message that the backend application will understand HTTP Header SOAP Envelope SOAP Header Headers SOAP Body Application- Specific Message Data...
... document as a standalone entity In other words, instead of marking up the internals ofa document, RDF captures meta data about the “externals” ofa document, like the author, the creation date, and ... by OASIS that is used for passing authentication and authorization information between parties SAML provides “assertions” of trust That is, an application can assert that it authenticated a user, ... relates to SAML in the sense that SAML provides the mechanism of propagating authentication and authorization information between services and servers, and XACML is the authentication and authorization...
... knowledge is the TAPache subproject ofthe TAP project at http:// tap.stanford.edu TAPache is a module for the Apache HTTP server that 116 Chapter enables you to publish RDF data via a standard Web service ... mechanism for supporting the presentation ofthe same data on multiple platforms A wireless client, aWeb client, a Java application client, a NET application client, or theapplicationof your ... “Employee,” and “Software-Engineer.” rdfs:label An attribute that defines a human-readable label for the class This is important for applications to display the class name in applications even though the...