As a result of various social and economic factors, many historic townscapes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have declined over the last half century. There have been many attempts throughout the world to revitalise such urban heritage areas, but the actual effectiveness of few of these...

Contemporary international trends and recent research based upon international integration theo ry suggest a tacit reunification strategy for divided nations. This theory emphasizes the creation of international and domestic background conditions conducive to collaboration and does not recom...

We define a reinforced stochastic process of random variables indexed by the vertices of a k-tree and with values in a Polish space. The work presents a natural extension from an exchangeable to a partially exchangeable setting of previous work done by the authors.

The Gompertz distribution has many applications, particularly in medical and actuarial studies. However, there has been little recent work on the Gompertz in comparison with its early investigation. The problem of finding and analysing a bivariate (or multivariate) Gompertz distribution is of...

We consider a generalization of ridge regression and demonstrate advantages over ridge regression. We provide an empirical Bayes method for determining the ridge constants, using the Bayesian interpretation of ridge estimators, and show that this coincides with a method based on a generalization...

An automatic query expansion (AQE) facility in an online catalogue was evaluated in an operational library setting. The Okapi experimental system had other features including: ranked output ‘best match’ keyword searching, automatic stemming, spelling normalisation and cross referencing as...

A major problem in using current best‐match methods in a filtering task is that of setting appropriate thresholds, which are required in order to force a binary decision on notifying a user of a document. We discuss methods for setting such thresholds and adapting them as a result of feedback...

Intro -- Preface -- Bibliography -- Part I Pre-mediation -- Question 1 -- Question 2 -- Question 3 -- Question 4 -- Question 5 -- Question 6 -- Question 7 -- Question 8 -- Question 9 -- Question 10 -- Question 11 -- Part 2 At the mediation -- Question 12 -- Question 13 -- Question 14 -- Question...