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TERMS: textual emotion recognition in multidimensional space
Microblogs generate a vast amount of data in which users express their emotions regarding almost all aspects of everyday life. Capturing affective content from these context-dependent and subjective texts is a...
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Leveraging transfer learning in reinforcement learning to tackle competitive influence maximization
Competitive influence maximization (CIM) is a key problem that seeks highly influential users to maximize the party’s reward than the competitor. Heuristic and game theory-based approaches are proposed to tack...
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Open AccessRelative risk of functional dyspepsia in patients with sleep disturbance: a population-based cohort study
Increased prevalence of sleep disorders has been found in patients with functional dyspepsia; however, direction of causality remains unclear. Our aim was to compare the risk of incident functional dyspepsia b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Activity Organization Queries for Location-Aware Heterogeneous Information Network
Activity organization query for Location-Based Social Networks is an important research problem, which aims at selecting a suitable group of people relevant to the query user and activity according to their so...
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Open AccessPlasmon-Enhanced Photocurrent using Gold Nanoparticles on a Three-Dimensional TiO2 Nanowire-Web Electrode
In this study, an anatase/rutile mixed-phase titanium dioxide (TiO2) hierarchical network deposited with Au nanoparticles (Au/TiO2 ARHN) was synthesized using a facile hydrothermal method followed by a simple cal...
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Unsupervised graph-based pattern extraction for multilingual emotion classification
The connected society we live in today has allowed online users to willingly share opinions on an unprecedented scale. Motivated by the advent of mass opinion sharing, it is then crucial to devise algorithms t...
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Open AccessEffect of spatial constraints on Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Panmixia is a key issue in maintaining genetic diversity, which facilitates evolutionary potential during environmental changes. Additionally, conservation biologists suggest the importance of avoiding small o...
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Concept-based event identification from social streams using evolving social graph sequences
Social networks, which have become extremely popular in the twenty first century, contain a tremendous amount of user-generated content about real-world events. This user-generated content relays real-world ev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
EmoTrend: Emotion Trends for Events
In this demo paper we present EmoTrend, a web-based system that supports event-centric temporal analytics of the global mood, as expressed in Twitter. Given a time range, and optionally a set of keywords, the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Music Interaction on Mobile Phones
This paper proposes an interactive musical application for smart phones to increase the possible exposure of music. Users can adjust the expressions of music using gestures on smart phones. Our experimental re...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Evaluation of a Telepresence Robot for Interpersonal Communication with Older Adults
Aging is associated with an increased risk of isolation. Interpersonal communication with family members, friends, and caregivers is crucial to healthy aging. This paper presents a telepresence robot “TRiCmini+” ...
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Development of the “Care Delivery Frame” for Senior Users
The “Care Delivery Frame (CDF)” presented here integrates two distinctly different applications, the home telehealth system and the remote photo sharing service of digital photo frame, to create a unique infor...
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Open AccessAssessment of gene-covariate interactions by incorporating covariates into association map**
The HLA region is considered to be the main genetic risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis. Previous research demonstrated that HLA-DRB1 alleles encoding the shared epitope are specific for disease that is characte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interacting with a Music Conducting System
Music conducting is the art of directing musical ensembles with hand gestures to personalize and diversify a musical piece. The ability to successfully perform a musical piece demands intense training and coor...
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Open AccessIncorporating quantitative variables into linkage analysis using affected sib pairs
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease in which environmental factors interact with genetic factors that influence susceptibility. Incorporating information about related quantitative traits or environmenta...
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Open AccessAssessing genotype × environment interaction in linkage map** using affected sib pairs
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex disease that involves both environmental and genetic factors. Elucidation of the basic etiologic factors involved in RA is essential for preventing and treating this dise...
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An Adaptive Recommendation System without Explicit Acquisition of User Relevance Feedback
Recommendation systems are widely adopted in e-commerce businesses for hel** customers locate products they would like to purchase. In an earlier work, we introduced a recommendation system, termed Yoda, which ...
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Yoda, an adaptive soft classification model: content-based similarity queries and beyond
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Tools and approaches for the construction of knowledge models from the neuroscientific literature
Within this paper, we describe a neuroinformatics project (called “NeuroScholar,” http://www.neuroscholar.org/) that enables researchers to examine, manage, manipulate, and use the information contained within...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web Information Personalization: Challenges and Approaches
As the number of web pages increases dramatically, the problem of the information overload becomes more severe when browsing and searching the WWW. To alleviate this problem, personalization becomes a popular ...
