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ZMP
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Effects of Salient News Items on Information Acquisition and Issue Perception
A medical news report was manipulated to project either Alabama or Texas as the target region for the outbreak of a new (fictitious) disease. Residents of Alabama and Texas respond...
Silvia Knobloch, Dolf Zillmann, Rhonda Gibson, Jam...
PVLDB
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mina Saleeb
ICCV
2003
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Cumulative Residual Entropy, A New Measure of Information & its Application to Image Alignment
In this paper we use the cumulative distribution of a random variable to define the information content in it and use it to develop a novel measure of information that parallels S...
Fei Wang, Baba C. Vemuri, Murali Rao, Yunmei Chen
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows
— Recently, cognitive psychologists and others have turned their attention to the formerly neglected study of shadows, and the information they purvey. These studies show that th...
Paulo Santos, Hannah M. Dee, Valquiria Fenelon
JCDL
2009
ACM
121views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...