text: ITENARARY • 9.00 – 10.00 : Abstract & Introduction • 10.00 – 10.15 : Rehat • 10.15 – 11.15 : Related Works & Methodology • 11.15 -11.30 : Rehat • 11.30 – 12.30 : Results & Conclusion • 12.30 – 1.00 : Q & A • Bersurai 2 OBJEKTIF • Di akhir Bengkel, peserta akan dapat • Memahami struktur penulisan makalah yang standard • Memahami komponen penting dalam setiap bahagian • Mengaplikasi dalam penulisan makalah sebenar 3 MOTIVATION PUBLISH THE OUTCOMES • career progression – moving up to the next rung on the ladder • gaining recognition for work you have done • setting yourself a new challenge • helping your students to gain recognition for their work • learning how to write to a higher standard • contributing to knowledge • Building your institution's status • developing a profile 4 CIRI-CIRI PENERBITAN BERMUTU (Journal) Journal Selection Criteria (Information Science Institute, ISI). The evaluation process consists of evaluation of many criteria such as, Basic Journal Publishing Standards (including Timeliness of publication, adherence to International Editorial Conventions, English Language Bibliographic Information (including English article titles, keywords, author abstracts, and cited references.) ISI also examines the journal's Editorial Content, the International Diversity of it authors and editors. Citation Analysis using ISI data is applied to determine the journal's citation history and/or the citation history of its authors and editors. 5 Susunan abstract/index Outstanding Index/Abstract (Engineering, Science & Technology) • • • • • • • • • • Science Citation Index (SCI, SCI Expanded) CompuMaths Citation Index Current Contents (Engineering, Computing, Technology) Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Computer Abstracts UK, CompuSci Mathematics Review USA Mathematics Abstracts Germany DBLP Bibliography INSPEC Scopus 503 journals indexed by SCI or SCI Expanded 6 Top 10 Impact Factor (IF) evaluated by ISI 2007 1 Int. Journal Computer Vision 0920-5691 6.085 2 ACM Trans. Information Sys 1046-8188 5.059 3 Bioinformatics 1367-4803 4.894 4 MIS Quarterly 0276-7783 4.731 5 IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis 0162-8828 4.306 6 ACM Computing Survey 0360-0300 4.130 7 ACM Trans. Graphics 0730-0301 4.081 8 VLDB Journal 9 Journal Am. Med. Inform. Assn. 1067-5027 3.979 10 IEEE Trans. Evolut. Computing 1089-778X 3.770 N= IEEE Trans. Know. & Data Eng. 4.062 2.18? 7 OTHERS, IF 2006 1 2 3 Information Systems 4 Data and Knowledge Engineering 5 6 Future Generation Computer Systems 0.722 8 Information Processing Letters 0.5? 9 ACM PODS. 0.53 10 IJCM, Taylor&Francis 0.428 n IEICE, Information Systems 0.28 7 8 ISSUES • no research • less/no publication – less/no writing • manuscript below standard • don't know how to write • sub-standard substance 9 The Basics of Good Writing So you're going to sit down at your computer, go through your notes, and in a few hours produce a piece of research writing. Right? Wrong! It is impossible to start from nothing and produce a good piece of writing, because it is very hard to organize your material and write at the same time. If you are working out which piece of research to talk about next and worrying about verb agreement, you are less likely to produce a good piece of writing 10 The Basics of Good Writing Here are some suggestions: Plan your writing. Before you start writing, find a way to organize your material so that you know what you are going to write about, in what order, and what you're going to say. Try writing an outline. Trying writing your ideas down on the back of an envelope, or a piece of old paper. It doesn't have to be beautiful, it just has to help you think about what you are going to say. Use whatever method works for you, no matter how strange! Ignore the language! When you plan your writing, don't worry about the language. Concentrate on what you are going to say. Write in notes so that you don't have to think about verb agreement. Don't waste time worrying about spelling. You can think about all these aspects of writing after you've decided what you are going to say. If you spend a lot of time fixing all the prepositions and conjunctions in an early draft you are not going to be willing to cut out paragraphs or sentences that you later realize aren't necessary, or to change them substantially. So don't put a lot of effort into proofreading until you are sure that what you want to say is the best you can come up with, then you can spend more time on fixing up the writing so that the punctuation, spelling, etc. is correct. 11 The Basics of Good Writing Write and rewrite! More experienced writers rewrite more times and more substantially than less experienced writers. Are you surprised? Good writing takes time for everyone. The better a writer you become, the more you will see that the first thoughts/ideas/writing that comes out of your head and onto the page can be improved. So give yourself time to rewrite so that your readers see the best of your thoughts and writing, not the best you could come up with at the last moment. Find readers! ask people to read what you've written. Ask friends, ask professors, ask your writing advisor in languages. But don't wait until your writing is "perfect" because then if people suggest changes you won't want to make them! Give people drafts and let them know what sort of feedback you want: comments on organization? on ideas? on your language? on the technical aspects of what you've written? Keep writing! Good writing takes practice. The only person who can make you a better writer is you. So work at it, show your work to other people, and rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. 12 WRITING FORMAT A COMMON FORMAT IN WRITING COMPRISES OF: • • • • • • • • • Abstract Introduction Related Work / Literature Review Material & Methodology Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgement References 13 ABSTRACT An abstract should briefly: • • • • • Re-establish the topic of the research. Give the research problem and/or main objective of the research (this usually comes first). Indicate the methodology used. Present the main findings. Present the main conclusions 14 ABSTRACT The Body of the Abstract The abstract is a very brief overview of your ENTIRE study. It tells the reader WHAT you did, WHY you did it, HOW you did it, WHAT you found, and WHAT it means. Briefly state the purpose of the research (introduction), how the problem was studied/solved (methods), the principal findings (results), and what the findings mean (discussion and conclusion). It is important to be descriptive but concise--say only what is essential, using no more words than necessary to convey meaning. 15 Common Problems Too long. If your abstract is too long, it may be rejected - abstracts are entered on databases, and those is usually a specified maximum number of words. Too much detail. Abstracts that are too long often have unnecessary details. The abstract is not the place for detailed explanations of methodology or for details about the context of your research problem. Too short. Shorter is not necessarily better. If your word limit is 200 but you only write 95 words, you probably have not written in sufficient detail. Many writers do not give sufficient information about their findings. Failure to include important information. You need to be careful to cover the points listed above. Often people do not cover all of them because they spend too long explaining, for example, the methodology and then do not have enough space to present their conclusion. 16 TITLE The title should convey to the objective/purpose of the paper. The nicer the better. Example: A Support-Ordered Trie for Fast Frequent Itemset Discovery 17 ABSTRACT Model 1 The importance of data mining is apparent with the advent of powerful data collection and storage tools; raw data is so abundant that manual analysis is no longer possible. Unfortunately, data mining problems are difficult to solve and this prompted the introduction of several novel data structures to improve mining efficiency. Here, we will, critically examine existing preprocessing data structures used in association rule mining for enhancing performance in an attempt to understand their strength and weaknesses. Our analysis culminate in a practical structure called the SOTrieT (Support-Ordered Trie Itemset) and two synergistic algorithms to accompany it for the fast discovery of frequent itemsets. Experiments involving a wide range of synthetic data sets reveal that its algorithms outperform FP-growth, a recent association rule mining algorithm with excellent performance, by up to two orders of magnitude and, thus, verifying its efficiency and viability. 18 ABSTRACT Model 2 The importance of data mining is apparent with the advent of powerful data collection and storage tools [WHY]. Unfortunately, data mining problems are difficult to discover the frequent itemsets due to computationally-intensive process [WHY/WHAT]. This paper will propose a model called SOTrieT (Support-Ordered Trie Itemset) and two synergistic algorithms accompany it for the fast discovery of frequent itemsets [HOW]. Experiments involving a wide range of synthetic data sets reveal that its algorithms outperform FP-growth, a recent association rule mining algorithm with excellent performance, by up to two orders of magnitude and, thus, verifying its efficiency and viability.[WHAT YOU FOUND] 19 INTRODUCTION The introduction comes at the start of a piece of writing. It introduces the research by situating it (by giving background), presenting the research problem and saying how and why this problem will be "solved." Without this important information the reader cannot easily understand the more detailed information about the research that comes later in the paper. It also explains why the research is being done (rationale) which is crucial for the reader to understand the significance of the study. 20 PURPOSE OF THE INTRODUCTION? What is the context of this problem? In what situation or environment can this problem be observed? (Background) Why is this research important? Who will benefit? Why do we need to know this? Why does this situation, method, model or piece of equipment need to be improved? (Rationale/justification) What is it we don't know? What is the gap in our knowledge this research will fill? What needs to be improved? (Problem Statement) What steps will the researcher take to try and fill this gap or improve the situation? (Objectives) Is there any aspect of the problem the researcher will not discuss? Is the study limited to a specific geographical area or to only certain aspects of the situation? (Scope) 21 INTRODUCTION COMMON PROBLEMS Too much detail, and hence too long. Remember, this is the introduction, a kind of overview. Although you will cover important points, detailed descriptions of method, study site and results will be in later sections. Look at the proportion of a research paper an introduction takes up. Notice it is comparatively short because it serves as a summary of what follows. Repetition of words, phrases or ideas. You will have keywords that are crucial to your study. However, your reader doesn't want to read them over and over! A high level of repetition makes your writing look careless. To reduce it, highlight repeated words or phrases - then you can easily judge if you are overusing them and find synonyms or pronouns to replace them. 22 COMMON PROBLEMS Unclear problem definition. Without a clear definition of your research problem, your reader is left with no clear idea of what you were studying. This means that they cannot judge your work's relevance to their own work, or its usefulness, quality, etc. As an exercise, you should be able to complete a sentence that starts, "The purpose of this study is . . . " that encapsulates the problem you are investigating. Of course you will not include this exact sentence in your paper, but it serves as an easy way to check that you have a clearly defined problem. In your paper you should be able to write your research problem in one sentence - you can add details in the sentences that follow. You should also ensure that your research problem matches the title of your paper (you'd be surprised how many don't !) as well as its methodology and objectives. Poor organization. Writing an introduction that effectively introduces your research problem and encapsulates your study is not an easy task. Often when we write we discover gradually what we want to say and how we want to say it. Writing is often a process of discovery. Bear this in mind when you write your introduction, and be prepared to go back and make big changes to what you have written, and the order in which you have presented your ideas and information. Your introduction must have a logical sequence that your reader can follow easily. 23 A SCHEMA FOR INTRODUCTIONS • Establish the Field – centrality, general to specific, previous research • Define a research problem – gap, questions, previous inquiry • Propose a Solution 24 FIELD First you need to establish the area of research in which your work belongs, and to provide a context for the research problem. This has three main elements: Claiming centrality: Claiming that the area of research is an important one, and therefore implying that the research done is also crucial. For example: " … although computing power has increased tremendously over the years, efficient algorithms with customized data structures are still necessary to obtain timely results. "B. Cui et. al. July 2004, IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Engineering" Here the words " efficient algorithms with customized data structures " indicates centrality by showing that this factor is crucial. 25 FIELD General to specific: Most writing starts with general information and then moves to specific information. This is true of introductions too. General Specific 26 FIELD General to specific: For example: … This prompted keen interest in automated data analysis tools, that in turn, catapulted the rise of data mining. However, data mining process with the current data structure having a computationally-intensive process i.e. NP-complete. We focus on Association Rule Mining (ARM) because of its immense popularity and usefulness in a wide variety of situations such as e-commerce, classification, clustering, webmining, and bioinformatics. Several data structures have been proposed for the enhancement of ARM, but none is able to cope effectively with the size and dynamism of current database. 27 FIELD Explaination The first sentence: This prompted keen interest in automated data analysis tools, that in turn, catapulted the rise of data mining. (general). The second sentence: However, data mining process with the current data structure having a computationally-intensive process i.e. NP-complete. (less general). The third sentence: We focus on Association Rule Mining (ARM) because of its immense popularity and usefulness in a wide variety of situations (more specific). The fourth sentence: Several data structures have been proposed for the enhancement of ARM, but none is able to cope effectively with the size and dynamism of current database. (yet more specific). 28 FIELD Previous research: Often the introduction will refer to work already done in the research area in order to provide background (and often also to help define the research problem). For example: Several data structures have been proposed for the enhancement of the ARM, but none is able to cope effectively with the size and dynamism of current databases [9-14]. 29 DEFINE RESEARCH PROBLEM PROBLEM Your research must be new in some way. It must add knowledge to your field so you need to show in what way your work explores an area/issue/question that has previously not been explored, or not been explored in detail, in not explored in the way that you are going to use. In other words, you need to give a rationale for your work (i.e. show the reasons for doing it). There are four ways to demonstrate that you are adding to the knowledge in your field: 30 DEFINE RESEARCH PROBLEM Gap: A research gap is an area where no or little research has been carried out. This is shown by outlining the work already done to show where there is a gap in the research (which you will then fill with your research). For example: The structures that had been proposed for mining the data were not able to cope effectively with the size and dynamism of current databases. 31 DEFINE RESEARCH PROBLEM Raising a question: The research problem is defined by asking a question to which the answer is unknown, and which you will explore in your research. For example: The question we address here is how technological change occurs when it is the overall system that needs to be changed. In particular, how can we begin and sustain a technological transition away from hydrocarbon based technologies? (Street and Miles, 1996) 32 DEFINE RESEARCH PROBLEM Continuing a previously developed line of enquiry: Building on work already done, but taking it further (by using a new sample, extending the area studied, taking more factors into consideration, taking fewer factors into consideration, etc.). For example: Taking all these elements and their possible variations into account is often far too complex and tedious for determining efficient gas development patterns with simple back of the envelope calculations. In their survey of these elements, Julius and Mashayeki [8] present a detailed analysis of these different interactions. They suggest that these be taken into account through gas planning models constructed in the same spirit as the planning models developed in the power generation sector. In this paper, we present a gas planning model that fulfils some of the specifications established in Julius and Mashayeki [8]. (Boucher and Smeers, 1996) 33 DEFINE RESEARCH PROBLEM Counter-claiming: A conflicting claim, theory or method is put forward. Here, for example, the researchers argue that previous researchers' assessments of cost effectiveness/methodology were too complex, and that a simplified process could and should be used instead: 34 PROPOSE A SOLUTION SOLUTION Once the field and problem have been defined, it is time to give the "solution." In other words, how will the research gap be filled? How will the question that was raised be answered? This last part of the introduction can also be used to show the benefits, to explain the objectives, to clarify the scope of the research, to announce what was found from doing the research and how it can be used. Notice that an introduction will discuss a number of the following points but is unlikely to cover them all. 35 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Outlining purpose: Often researchers will described their objectives in their introduction in order for the reader to have a clear idea of what they set out to accomplish. Usually there is a general objective written in one sentence (details of more specific objectives can be given in following sentences). For example: This work aims to establish the extent of interaction of alginate with calcium and aluminium ions with respect to the influence of algal exudates have on the removal of humic substances by aluminium coagulation during drinking water treatment. (Gregor et al., 1996) Hint!: always give an overall objective before giving specific objectives. This will help you explain much more clearly to your reader what your work aimed to accomplish. 36 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Announcing present research (method): Important points about the methodology used are outlined, perhaps including the scope of the study. However, the methodology is not given in detail (since details are given in the methodology section). For example: In this paper, we focus on ARM…..Here, we shall critically examine existing preprocessing data structures in ARM for enhancing performance in an attempt to understand the strengths and weaknesses. Our analysis culminate in a practical structure called Support-Ordered Trie Itemset (SOTrieIT) and two synergetic AR mining algorithms to accompany it. Experiments involving a wide range of synthetic data sets reveal that the algorithm outperform FP-growth, a recent ARM algorithm by up to two orders of magnitude….. "B. Cui et. al. IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Engineering, pp 875879, July 2004. " 37 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Example: This paper proposes a new model called Support-Ordered Trie Itemset (SOTrieIT) with synergistic ARM algorithms to improve the performance process. 38 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Announcing principle findings (results): Researchers may indicate the kind of results they obtained, or an overall summary of their findings. For example: Different operating modes of the MESFET mixers, gate mixers, drain mixers, and resistive mixers were investigated in this work and the results proved that good conversion characteristics could be achieved.(Angelov, 1991) 39 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Example: It reveals that the performance of the model increases up to two orders of magnitude and, thus, verifying its efficiency and viability. 40 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Indicating the structure of the research: It is useful to outline the organization of the written up research that follows so that the reader has a clear idea of what is going to follow, and in what order. In other words, "Paper Organization" For example: The rest of the paper is organized as follows: The next section describes the problem of mining ARs. Section 3 reviews the ARM algorithms that utilize data structures, while section 4 introduces our enhanced data structures and algorithms. The performance of our approach is evaluated in section 5, and finally, the papers is concluded in section 6. "B. Cui et. al. IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Engineering, pp 875879, July 2004." 41 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Indicating directions for further research: Research often opens up other areas where research could or should be done, so it is common for these areas to be defined in the introduction. It is also a way of indicating that the current study is not designed to be comprehensive. This paper takes a first step in this direction by laying out the rationale for incorporating feedback and feedforward mechanisms in decision support for dynamic tasks such as software project management (Sengupta and Abdel-Hamid, 1993). 42 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Indicating benefits of current research: Indicating the benefits of the research helps to justify why it was carried out and emphasizes the value of the study. For example: …..because of its immense popularity and usefulness in a wide variety of situations such as e-commence, classification, clustering, web mining, and bio-informatics. 43 PROPOSE A SOLUTION Notice that the introduction includes information that is presented in other parts of the paper. Does this mean that if you indicate your results in your Introduction that you will have nothing left to present in your Results chapter? No! 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As the finance ministers of the G20 pointed out in their preparatory meeting, one of the chief problems is how to deal with banks' toxic assets. Beyond that is the broader question of what regulation - whether national, European or global - seeks to achieve.
And the answer has to be very simple. Banks need more assets to back their lending; they need larger capital reserves to give them stability. Lord Turner's prescription for British banks in his recent report was that banks should be obliged to put aside money in the good times in order to tide them over the bad. There was a time when banks would not have needed to have this elementary prudential principle pointed out to them. Plainly they do now. Crackdowns on bonuses that reward risk-taking are part of that endeavour but only a small part.
There is consensus about the desirability of an international aspect to the regulatory regime but fundamental control of the banking system must happen on a national basis. Adding ever greater layers of bureaucracy carries the danger of buck-passing. If history has a lesson, it is that we rarely learn the lessons of history. The job of the G20 leaders is to ensure that, a decade on, we do not find ourselves in this sorry situation again.
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THE beauty of international summits, despite their vast expense and bureaucracy, is that they give world leaders the chance actually to engage with each other - man to man, in the case of the US president, Barack Obama and the Russian premier, Dmitry Medvedev. The object of the G20 summit was not nuclear disarmament but the result of the meeting yesterday between the two leaders has been a pledge to reduce their nuclear arsenal to perhaps no more than 1,500 warheads each.
An economic recession is, in fact, a good time to reassess the desirability of spending much-needed funds on nuclear weapons. For that reason, the Prime Minister would be well advised to think again about Trident. Time will tell whether this hopeful initiative between the US and Russia will bear fruit in other ways but if it results in at least a 30 per cent reduction in the nuclear stockpile of the two countries, this summit will have done real good.
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THE young director Rupert Goold is nothing if not versatile. Hard after his triumphs with Macbeth and Oliver! he heads to the ENO to produce Puccini's Turandot because he has an interest in "high-end horror". Opera being particularly rich in this respect, we can hope that there will be many more sensational productions to comeReuse content

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The resurrection of Doctor Who has been one of the BBC's greatest success stories. The creative force behind its renaissance, Russell T Davies, took the tired, unloved show and turned it into must-see, big-budget, prime-time TV.
Celebrities such as Kylie Minogue clamour to make cameo appearances, and leaked plot lines are feverishly discussed in the media, the latest is that former History Boy Russell Tovey, is next to play The Doctor. The 45-year-old Davies, best known until he was taken on to do Doctor Who for writing Queer as Folk, a drama about gay men, went from being a slightly risqué, cultish figure to a senior statesman of family television.
And then, in May this year, Davies quit. He would not be doing a series five, handing the Doctor Who baton instead to fellow Doctor Who scriptwriter Steven Moffat.
To mark the end of his time on Doctor Who – although he will still be in creative control of the spin-off Torchwood and the Doctor Who Christmas specials – Davies has co-authored a book about the creative process of writing Doctor Who scripts, called Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale.
We meet in the central courtyard at BBC's Television Centre, where Davies is smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. I am, probably disproportionately, impressed that Davies queued up at the nearest coffee stall and bought me a coffee with his own money; this kind of gallantry from an interviewee is unheard of.
The book is a very heavy, glossy thing detailing a year in the life of Doctor Who, seen through the eyes of Davies as he emails the co-author of the book, Benjamin Cook. The book is interspersed with actual scripts from series four and illustrated with Davies' own lively and accomplished cartoons. It's a strange concept. There have been books of scripts before and TV series accompanying books before, but you'd have to be a figure as grand and accomplished as Davies for this project to work – even then he acknowledges that there is a sniff of vanity about the whole thing.
But it doesn't really matter; the fans will adore it. Davies has engaged with the book totally and there is full disclosure from him about everything: leaks to the papers about plot lines and cameos, despair at schedules, good-natured freak-outs about deadlines and even his disappointment at how he (as a gay man) is sometimes sketched by the press. "I'm portrayed as giggling, primping and lipsticked," he says.
Which he is not, by the way. Standing fully six feet and six inches tall, Davies is a broad, booming Welsh lad and when he laughs he goes "HA HA HA HA", which makes people turn around and wonder why they, too, are not having as much fun. But he does not giggle. And he isn't wearing lipstick. There is, yes, a slight luvvieness to his manner now and again but no more than anyone else who works in TV, straight or gay.
He works all the time. The times of the emails he sends in the book – 1.30am, 2am, 7am – prove that he is never off duty. He has not had a summer holiday this year but, actually, he doesn't really see the point. "I am a workaholic, I suppose," he says. "I don't know what I would do on holiday. After about a day I'd get twitchy and want to do some writing."
He left Oxford University in 1984 and ended up at the BBC, working behind the camera on Playschool and then went to work on other children's programmes such as Why Don't You?. Blithely ignoring the unspoken rule in TV that once you've picked an age group, you're stuck with it, Davies moved into adult programming, creating the controversial but hugely popular series for Channel 4, Queer as Folk.
"When you work in children's television everyone says to you, 'Oh, you'll never work in adult drama.' When I worked in Children's there was a woman who went from Playschool to working on Casualty and she was spoken of in hushed tones like she was a sort of legend!"
When the news broke that Davies was to head up the revamp of Doctor Who, The Sun's headline was, tastefully, "Doctor Queer". And then the first series of Doctor Who aired, captivating the entire British under-13 audience, as well as most of their parents. The massive interest in the show has led to constant plot line leaks to the press. Is that annoying?
"It's part of the game," he says. "But yes it is annoying, I suppose. What you want is for people not to know the ending, because that's the whole point of storytelling. At the end of the last series, with the regeneration question, it went mental for us because people didn't know what was going to happen and they all watched to find out. We got two million extra viewers just because of that.
"Our problem is that about a hundred people know about what's going to happen on the show: we have to book locations and talk to the council and say, 'Well, we're going to have a big explosion on the street and there are going to be Daleks everywhere. Is that OK?' In the end, the day that no one gave a toss would be a sad one."
The rewards that have come Davies's way have been magnificent: in 2001 he won the Writer of the Year award at the British Comedy Awards and a Royal Television Society award in 2003. To cap it all he was awarded an OBE, which he finds funny.
"How middle aged is an OBE? I haven't had the actual thing yet, I think I've fallen off the end of a list somewhere. Then I had this booklet telling me when I can wear it. I could have it on my cuff maybe? God... I complain about people saying I'm camp and then I talk about wearing my medal on my cuff! People keep asking me if I've had it yet. I think they send you a date and then you go up to the palace like Kylie and get it."
Ah, yes – Kylie! It must have been fun to have famous people desperate to be on your show. "There's such goodwill towards Doctor Who, which makes it much easier for us. It's not like someone really famous will come on and have to play a murdered prostitute, like in Prime Suspect. They have fun and it's seen by kids and that's what really registers with people and means they're up for it."
There's also the unspoken fact that Doctor Who has got a pretty big budget, although, Davies says, there wasn't so much money that they could throw it at him when he decided to leave. "To be honest," he laughs, "I thought that when I went in to tell Peter Fincham that I wasn't going to do series five, he'd throw money at me, and he didn't!
"And that's quite right, too," Davies continues more soberly, "because it's a public service and it would be a waste of money."
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Auto Suggest • N-grams – – – – unigrams: "c", "a", "s", "h" bigrams: "ca", "as", "sh" trigrams: "cas", "ash" 4-grams: "cash" • Edge N-grams – "c", "ca", "cas", "cash" Alternative: PrefixQuery Demo Spell Checking • "Did you mean..." • Spell checker starts by analyzing the source terms into n-grams Index Structure Example word kings gram3 kin, ing, ngs gram4 king, ings start3 kin start4 king end3 ngs end4 ings Demo Trie Fields – Numeric ranges • Added in v2.9 • 175 is indexed as hundreds:1 tens:17 ones:175 – TrieRangeQuery:[154 TO 183] is executed as tens:[16 TO 17] OR ones:[154 TO 159] OR ones:[180 TO 183] • Configurable precisionStep per field • 40x speedup for range queries Synonyms • Synonym filter allows you to include alternate words that the user can use when searching • For example, theater, theatre – Useful for movie titles, where words are deliberately misspelled • Don't over-use synonyms – It helps recall, but lowers precision • Produces tokens at the same token position – "local theater company" theatre Other features • Find similar documents – Selects documents similar to a given document, based on the document's significant terms • Result Highlighter • Tika – Rich document text extraction • Spatial Search • … Demo General Performance Factors • Use local file system • Index Size – Stop Word removal – Use of stemming • Type of Analyzer – More complicated analysis, slower indexing – Turn off features you are not using (Norms, Term Vectors etc.) • • • • • Index type (RAMDirectory, other) Occurrences of Query Terms Optimized Index Disable Compound File format Just add more RAM :-) Indexing Performance Factors • Re-use the IndexWriter • IndexWriter.SetRAMBufferSizeMB – Minimum # of MBs before merge occurs and a new segment is created – Usually, Larger == faster, but more RAM • IndexWriter.SetMergeFactor – How often segments are merged – Smaller == less RAM, better for incremental updates – Larger == faster, better for batch indexing • IndexWriter.SetMaxFieldLength – Limit the number of terms in a Document • Reuse Document and Field instances Search Performance Factors • Use ReadOnly IndexReader • Share a single instance of IndexSearcher – Reopen only when necessary and pre warm-up • Query Size – Stop Words removal, Bi-grams … • Query Type(s) – WildcardQuery rewrites to BooleanQuery with all Terms • Use FieldSelector – Select only the stored fields needed • Use Filters with cache • Search an "all" field instead of many fields with the same Query Terms Demo Alternatives • • • • MS FullText / Fast Oracle Text MySQL FullText dtSearch – Commercial • Xapian – Open Source • Sphinx – Open Source – Used by Craigslist Solr What is Solr • • • • • • Enterprise Search engine Free / Open Source Started by C|NET Build on Lucene Web-based application (HTTP) Runs in a Java servlet container 03-10-2015 30 Features • • • • • • Solr Core – virtual instances Lucene best practices Sharding Replication DataImportHandler Faceting Demo 03-10-2015 31 Questions? 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Shorter fields (fewer tokens) get a bigger boost from this factor. coord(q, d) Coordination factor, based on the number of query terms the document contains. The coordination factor gives an AND-like boost to documents that contain more of the search terms than other documents. queryNorm(q) Normalization value for a query, given the sum of the squared weights of each of the query terms. Index Structure • Document – Grouping of content • Field – Properties of the Document • Term Index Segment Segment – Unit of indexing – often a word Segment • Index • Segment – File – an index by it self – Lucene write segments incrementally Document Field 1 Field 2 … Phonetic Analysis • Creates a phonetic representation of the text, for "sounds like" matching • PhoneticFilterFactory. Uses one of – Metaphone – Double Metaphone – Soundex – Refined Soundex – Nysis • Components of a Analyzer – CharFilters – Tokenizers – TokenFilters CharFilters • Used to clean up/regularize characters before passing to • TokenFilter • Remove accents, etc. MappingCharFilter • They can also do complex things, we'll look at • HTMLStripCharFilter later. Tokenizers • Convert text to tokens (terms) • Only one per analyzer • Many Options – WhitespaceTokenizer – StandardTokenizer – PatternTokenizer – More… TokenFilters • Process the tokens produced by the Tokenizer • Can be many of them per field


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Japanese Karesansui Gardens
Karesansui gardens [japan-guide.com] reproduce natural landscapes in a more abstract way by using stones, gravel, sand and sometimes a few patches of moss for representing mountains, islands, boats, seas and rivers. Karesansui gardens are strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism and used for meditation.
There have been many attempts to explain the Zen garden's layout [en.wikipedia.org]. Some of these are:
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- The rocks represent a mother tiger with her cubs, swimming to a dragon.
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David Zasloff plays the Japanese Shakuhachi Flute [video.google.com]
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Or perhaps its the perfection of character that is Zen? Either way it seems Zen can only be aspirational for most of us which is just as well for if we were to became perfect then where would we go next?So Cherax let's revel in our 'peggedness'. See question above.
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The chargesheet filed by the Delhi police in connection with a major espionage case has some explosive details.
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The case on hand involves five persons including a head constable of the BSF who were arrested by the Delhi police in connection with an espionage case.
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Khan a teacher in Jammu and Kashmir according to the chargesheet roped in his nephew Abdul Rashid who was a head constable in the BSF to gather information for him.
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TripAdvisor loses top spot to Wotif – Top Australia travel websites, February 11 2012
Webjet Australia tops the agencies, Wotif.com tops destinations and accomandation, while Qantas tops the Airlines.
All change at the top in Australia as Wotif gained enough additional share of traffic in the destination and accommodation category to unseat its main rival TripAdvisor.
TripAdvisor lost 0.3% market share last week, as Wotif gained a similar amount over the same period.
The pair have jostled for pole position on and off for months, while Booking.com has mostly remained in third spot.
Read full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2012/02/15/data/tripadvisor-loses-top-spot-to-wotif-top-australia-travel-websites-february-11-2012/


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Posted March 19, 2014 by Unique in Entertainment News
Beyonce & Jay Z Hit Up Historic Anne Frank Museum While In Amsterdam [Photo]
While traveling around Europe the Carter's were recently spotted making a stop at the Anne Frank museum while in Amsterdam. During their visit to the historic site, where Anne Frank and her family hid before being found by the Nazi's, Bey was captured signing her name in Anne Frank's visitors book. Beyonce is expected to hit the stage tonight at the Ziggo Dome in Holland, Amsterdam.
Check out the photos in the gallery above.


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