Zukunft Bestand is a holistic concept for the ecological and socially inclusive renovation of existing housing complexes. Using two case studies representative of typical building methods of the 20th ...century, the book shows how measures a) preserve and inclusively improve existing structures, b) carefully integrate anything new, c) save resources and use them sensibly. The eco-social transformation, presented in the scales of settlement, building and detail, is therefore applicable to a large number of housing complexes in Austria and beyond.
Zukunft Bestand ist ein Gesamtkonzept für die ökologische und sozial inklusive Sanierung bestehender Wohnhausanlagen. Das Buch zeigt anhand von zwei Fallbeispielen, die repräsentativ für typische Bauweisen des 20. Jahrhunderts sind, wie Maßnahmen a) Bestehendes erhalten und inklusiv verbessern, b) Neues behutsam integrieren, c) Ressourcen schonen und sinnvoll einsetzen. Die in den Maßstäben Siedlung, Gebäude und Detail dargestellte ökosoziale Transformation ist somit auf eine Vielzahl von Wohnhausanlagen in Österreich und darüber hinaus anwendbar.
This book contains the following papers in honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane on subject access issues in library and information science: (1) "Obstacles in Progress in Mechanized Subject Access and ...the Necessity of a Paradigm Change" (Robert Fugmann); (2) "On MARC and the Nature of Text Searching: A Review of Pauline Cochrane's Inspirational Thinking Grafted onto a Swedish Spy on Library Matters" (Bjorn Tell); (3) "Blazing New Trails: In Celebration of an Audacious Career" (Donald King); (4) "The User Centered Approach: How We Got Here" (Raya Fidel); (5) "Subject Access in Interdisciplinary Research" (Linda Smith); (6) "Web Search Strategies" (Karen Drabenstott); (7) "Enhancing Subject Access to Monographs in Online Public Access Catalogs: Table of Contents Added to Bibliographic Records" (Vinh-The Lam); (8) "Objects for Distributed Heterogeneous Information Retrieval" (Eric H. Johnson); and (9) "Curriculum Vitae for Pauline Atherton Cochrane" (William J. Wheeler). Includes an index. (MES)
In a networked and globalized world of information the form of national bibliographies may have changed, however their major function remains unchanged: to inform about a country's publication ...landscape, its cultural and intellectual heritage. Subject access offers a major route into this landscape providing information about the dispersion of publications in specific fields of knowledge and topics contained in a particular national publishing output. The Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies give graded recommendations concerning subject indexing policies for national bibliographic agencies and illustrating various policies by providing best practice examples. Yvonne Jahns, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig.
Distributed word representations have become an essential foundation for biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP), text mining and information retrieval. Word embeddings are traditionally ...computed at the word level from a large corpus of unlabeled text, ignoring the information present in the internal structure of words or any information available in domain specific structured resources such as ontologies. However, such information holds potentials for greatly improving the quality of the word representation, as suggested in some recent studies in the general domain. Here we present BioWordVec: an open set of biomedical word vectors/embeddings that combines subword information from unlabeled biomedical text with a widely-used biomedical controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). We assess both the validity and utility of our generated word embeddings over multiple NLP tasks in the biomedical domain. Our benchmarking results demonstrate that our word embeddings can result in significantly improved performance over the previous state of the art in those challenging tasks.
A number of statistical textbooks recommend using an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to control for the effects of extraneous factors that might influence the dependent measure of interest. However, ...it is not generally recognized that serious problems of interpretation can arise when the design contains comparisons of participants sampled from different populations (classification designs). Designs that include a comparison of younger and older adults, or a comparison of musicians and non-musicians are examples of classification designs. In such cases, estimates of differences among groups can be contaminated by differences in the covariate population means across groups. A second problem of interpretation will arise if the experimenter fails to center the covariate measures (subtracting the mean covariate score from each covariate score) whenever the design contains within-subject factors. Unless the covariate measures on the participants are centered, estimates of within-subject factors are distorted, and significant increases in Type I error rates, and/or losses in power can occur when evaluating the effects of within-subject factors. This paper: (1) alerts potential users of ANCOVA of the need to center the covariate measures when the design contains within-subject factors, and (2) indicates how they can avoid biases when one cannot assume that the expected value of the covariate measure is the same for all of the groups in a classification design.
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