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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"search results"”.
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Towards structured representation of academic search results
Searching for scientific publications is a tedious task, especially when exploring an unfamiliar domain. Typical scholarly search engines produce lengthy unstructured result lists, which are difficult to comprehend, interpret and browse.An informative visual summary could convey useful information …
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Improving Search Results with Automated Summarization and Sentence Clustering
Have you ever searched for something on the web and been overloaded with irrelevant results? Many search engines tend to cast a very wide net and rely on ranking to show you the relevant results first. But, this doesn't always work. Perhaps the occurrence of irrelevant results could be reduced if …
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Investigating representational biases in stock photo website search results
Stock photos have been widely used in various media, such as newspapers and blogs. They are relatively understudied in media and advertising, perhaps because the concept of stock photos encompasses a wide range of images, and websites dedicated to gathering, displaying, and selling stock photos …
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Combination of Multiple Web Search Results and Its Effect on the Search Performance
… in most cases, but supported when the original results are involved in the comparisons. Some other findings are: complex queries are more likely to retrieve documents from more search engines; more than 15% of retrieved Web links are inactive for various reasons; on the average combining more …
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The XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment: Design, Construction, Calibration and 2010 Search Results with Improved Measurement of the Scintillation Response of Liquid Xenon to Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils
… the most sensitive direct detection dark matter search in operation, the CDMS II experiment, by probing spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interaction cross sections down to σχN ~ 5 × 10-44 cm2 at 30GeV/c2. Liquefied noble gas detectors are now among the technologies at the forefront of direct …
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An empirical investigation in using multi-modal metaphors to browse internet search results. An investigation based upon experimental browsing platforms to examine usability issues of multi-nodal metaphors to communicate internet-based search engine results.
… use of multimodality to communicate retrieved results of Internet search engines. The investigation aimed to investigate suitable multimodal metaphors which would increase the level of usability of Internet search engine interfaces and enhance users` experience in the search activity. The study …
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Using language similarities in retrieval for resource scarce languages: a study of several southern Bantu languages
… RSLs are lowly ranked and difficult to access in search results, resulting in a struggling and frustrating search experience for speakers of RSLs. In this thesis, we propose the use of language similarities to match, re-rank and return search results written in closely related languages to improve …
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Intelligent personalized approaches for semantic search and query expansion
… for services and obtains them through different search engines. To obtain the best results that meet the needs and requirements of the users, researchers have extensively studied methods such as different personalization methods by which to improve the performance and efficiency of the retrieval …
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Enhancing Search Engine Results: A Comparative Study of Graph and Timeline Visualizations for Semantic and Temporal Relationship Discovery
<p>In today’s digital age, search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information among the corpus of billions of webpages. The standard that most search engines follow is to display search results in a list-based format arranged according to a ranking algorithm. Although this …
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A client side tool for contextual Web search
… information relevant to the context of a web search for the purpose of improving the search results obtained using standard search engines. The representation of the contextual information is based on a Vector Space Model and is obtained from a set of documents that have been identified as …
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Deep-web search engine ranking algorithms
… of data that are unreachable by link-based search engines. A study conducted at University of California, Berkeley estimated that the deep web consists of around 91,000 terabytes of data, whereas the surface web is only about 167 terabytes. To access this content, one must submit valid input …
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Multi-language code search
Searching for specified code patterns is a common component in many types of programming tools for any language. Unfortunately, there is no code search approach that produces application-friendly search results and supports multiple languages under the same system. This work presents a program …
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Divorce, Banking, and War in Islam: Evaluating the Reliability and Coverage of Common World Religion Research Tools
… to function as an expert compared to a leading research tool in the humanities, JSTOR. The study incorporates a literature survey of the three areas of Islamic ethics (divorce, banking, and war) to serve as a baseline for the evaluation of Google and JSTOR search results. The study utilizes a …
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Enabling the discovery of novel bioactives and enzymes from billions of protein sequences
… sequence data can be challenging. Subsequently, search results can contain hundreds of thousands of matches, making exploring the results difficult. With this thesis, I outline the approaches I undertook to expand the data in the MGnify protein database to facilitate filtering and exploration of …
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Utilizing forum meta-information to improve relevance in forum discovery
… topic in which to join. While many modern search engines crawl through discussion forums and return threads in various forums based on each thread’s relevance to query terms, there are not a lot of search engines that can tell a user the best forum to join to discuss about a topic of …
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Retrieval Performance in a Full Text Journal Article Database
… of the full text of journal articles for online searching will make abstracting and indexing obsolete and that search results with full text will be superior to the results of bibliographic searching. This study tested these assumptions by comparing results from searching the full text of journal …
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The effects of antihistamine use on visual search tasks
Previous research has shown that most antihistamines have sedative effects and can lead to deterioration of psychomotor performance. The objective of this research was to determine if two antihistamines (diphenhydramine and astemizole) administered at a therapeutic dose level will affect a …
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Design and implementation of search for the Scratch Online Community
… exponential growth introduces a need for a new Search infrastructure that will enable users to find and discover more relevant projects, while allowing the Scratch team to control the ranking of search results. This thesis presents a complete Search system that will be deployed on the Scratch …
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Design and implementation of a cyberinfrastructure for RNA motif search, prediction and analysis
… very few web servers are available for RNA motif search and prediction. In this dissertation, a cyberinfrastructure, named RNAcyber, capable of performing RNA motif search and prediction, is proposed, designed and implemented. The first component of RNAcyber is a web-based search engine, named …
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Principles of usable query interfaces
… are by far the most popular method for users to search, explore, and understand such information. Because search is more effective when information is well organized, people often choose to add structure to their information, producing semi-structured or even structured data. However, the new …
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