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Patrick Dunleavy and Sean Kippin examine how democratic the UK’s party system and political parties are. Parties often attract criticism from those outside their ranks, but they have multiple, complex roles to play in any liberal democratic society. The UK’s system has ...

In this work we compare two models to calculate the capacity of multihop wireless networks. The first model utilizes the maximal independent sets of the conflict graph. The problem in that model is formulated as a linear program. The second model in our comparison utili...

This chapter begins by defining what is traditionally meant by the term 'paratransit', before exploring why it has remained a relatively niche transport concern. Societal trends have shifted to a pattern of demand that is ill-suited to the system design for conventional...

Many methods have been proposed to automatically extend knowledge bases, but the vast majority of these methods focus on finding plausible missing facts, and knowledge graph triples in particular. In this paper, we instead focus on automatically extending ontologies tha...

Recent research has shown that the performance of search personalization depends on the richness of user profiles which normally represent the user's topical interests. In this paper, we propose a new embedding approach to learning user profiles, where users are embedde...

We give a personal view of what Information Geometry is, and what it is becoming, by exploring a number of key topics: dual affine families, boundaries, divergences, tensorial structures, and dimensionality. For each, we start with a graphical illustrative example (Sect...

The Linked Data effort has been focusing on how to publish open data sets on the Web, and it has had great results. However, mechanisms for updating linked data sources have been neglected in research. We propose a structure for Linked Data resources into named graphs, ...

This chapter presents a study of pithoi – large Etruscan ceramic vessels for the storage and processing of agricultural produce in Italy in the first millennium BC. A new regional typology is presented along with their distribution in Etruria. The economic life cycle of...

Background One‐third of subfertile couples have no identifiable cause for their inability to conceive. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a widely accepted treatment for this condition; however, this treatment is invasive and expensive and is associated with risks. Objecti...

Correlation has been widely used to facilitate various information retrieval methods such as query expansion, relevance feedback, document clustering, and multi-modal fusion. Especially, correlation and independence are important issues when fusing different modalities ...