Indexing

As part of my doctoral studies I have been reviewing several journal titles and one of them has been the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (henceforth RDAC). The latter journal is not extensively catalogued, indexed or digitized at the moment, which makes it very difficult for researchers to find articles published there. Therefore, I decided to create a comprehensive list of contents for the RDAC from its first published volume in 1934 to the latest volume published in 2010. In the link below you will find an Excel workbook with a complete listing of the contents of each RDAC volume, full references to each item and some other goodies (article counters - for that you will need to activate Macros, so that some VBA code running in the background gets activated). This project has taken almost two months to bring to completion and now with the consent of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus is offered under a CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike) 4.0 International License to all researchers working in the archaeology of Cyprus.

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In this paper, we compare the performance of equal- and value-weighted port- folios formed from stocks in the large-, medium- and small-cap S&P indices. We find that the equal-weighted portfolio with monthly rebalancing outperforms the value-weighted portfolio in terms of total mean return, alpha, and Sharpe ratio. Decomposing the difference in total mean returns, we find that of the total excess mean return of 2.71% per annum earned by the equal-weighted portfolio over the value-weighted portfolio, only 58% comes from the excess systematic component, while 42% comes from the difference in alphas. As one might expect, the higher systematic return of the equal-weighted portfolio arises from its higher exposure to market, size, and value factors, which is determined by the equal initial weights. We demonstrate that the higher alpha of the equal-weighted portfolio, however, arises from the monthly rebalancing to maintain constant weights, and that choosing the constant weights to be equal is not crucial.

With increasingly higher numbers of non-English language web searchers the problems of efficient handling of non-English Web documents and user queries are becoming major issues for search engines. The main aim of this review paper is to make researchers aware of the existing problems in monolingual non-English Web retrieval by providing an overview of open issues. A significant number of

Purpose of the study: Since 2015, International aviation sector has witnessed an exceptional transformation of Indian air transport with a growth rate of 15-20%. It is also predicted to maintain a similar trend for not less than 4-5 years. However, transporting 400-500 million people a year with the existing facilities and infrastructure will inversely affect the sector. Thus we require an efficient and well-equipped airport network throughout the country to cater the needs of the future demand. Benchmarks are said to be the vital part of every planning standards and processes.
Methodology: Study focuses on 109 airports of India (including upcoming airports in UDAN) and covers a critical evaluation of airport to airport connection as well as airport accessibility to and fro. This paper analyses all the benchmarking parameters, namely ‘indicators’, those influence connectivity and accessibility of these airports.
Main Findings: Using statistical tools, it evaluates the existing air network, makes a comparative investigation and models the entire network to frame individual and overall benchmarks. Based on these benchmarks, study recommends adopting few strategies for the next 5 years to address the increasing demand.
Implications: Study brings about a healthy competition among airports to resolve their shortcomings. It can boost up demand shift from other modes to air transport.
Applications of this study: The methodology may be followed to set Benchmarks of any networks based on the relevant parameters.
Novelty/Originality of this study: Airports in India are given different indices and ranks on the connectivity and accessibility parameters, so that their performance is analysed in the global network

Information retrieval technology has been central to the success of the Web. For semantic web documents or annotations to have an impact, they will have to be compatible with Web based indexing and retrieval technology. We discuss some of the underlying problems and issues central to extending information retrieval systems to handle annotations in semantic web languages. We also describe three prototype systems that we have implemented to explore these ideas.

Today there is a significant competition among the global cities. Each global city tries to preclude its competitors by way of making strategic movements. Global cities are compared in global indices that are regularly published and organized by worldwide known foundations, and on international scale, each city is ordered in accordance with a certain ranking. Directors of global cities greatly consider these orderings; primary aims and practices should be determined in accordance with the goal of being at the top in these indices. Istanbul, which is one of the famous global cities having long-standing background, has got involved in this competition as well. This study aims to evaluate the performance of Istanbul through the indices of global cities and to appoint the positive and negative aspects of it. In the research, the measurement criteria of the most 10 popular indices of global cities including Istanbul has been examined in detail with regards to using data set and results. The study suggest that Istanbul is quite competitive city and draws away its competitors in the matters of global accessibility, growth rate, commercial activity and vitality, attracting foreign investment, real estate investment, attracting the control centres of industrial firms and servicers. It has been established that Istanbul has covered a distance in topics of research sufficiency, information and communication technology, research and development, and hosting the head offices of global firms, but the city needs to make more improvements in these matters. In addition, the way of being in a better position of global cities indices for Istanbul depends on important improvement and structural reforms to be executed in the matters of environment, energy consumption, producing green energy-saving building, environmental management, green action planning and public participation. Findings are guide to the decision makers in the matters that should be taken further consideration in the process of management and planning, and in what way cities should make improvement in order not to fall behind the competition.

In radionuclide therapy, absorbed dose is calculated by convolution of a three-dimensional activity matrix with a three-dimensional dose point kernel. A technique employing the fast Hartley Transform (FHT) has been developed to perform this calculation. An important part of that development was the indexing scheme for 3D data. The results of this new FHT convolution technique were compared to direct convolution. A cube was convolved with itself by these two techniques. The results differed by less than 2 percent. In an effort to show the practical applicability of 3D convolution, a three-dimensional activity matrix from a I-131-labeled 16.88 monoclonal antibody patient was convolved with beta and photon dose point kernels using direct convolution. Isodose contours were then generated from the calculated absorbed dose matrix and overlaid on a CT image of the patient

MUVIS is a series of CBIR systems. The first one has been developed in late 90s to support indexing and retrieval in large image databases using visual and semantic features such as color, texture and shape. During recent years, MUVIS has been reformed to become a PC-based framework, which supports indexing, browsing and querying of various multimedia types such as audio, video, audio/video interlaced and several image formats. MUVIS system allows real-time audio and video capturing, encoding by last generation ...

Amy Merritt and Tristan Stubbs examine the challenges
of promoting environmental citizenship in the UK. Citizen participation in policymaking is receiving greater attention from politicians, academics, and citizens. However, due to political and institutional barriers and a lack of resources, citizens face real
challenges in their engagement. They explore the legislative parameters of localism in the UK by charting the Transition Town movement’s contribution to locally driven sustainability.

Alberto Petrucciani, C'è un futuro per l'indicizzazione?, in: Viaggi a bordo di una parola: scritti sull'indicizzazione semantica in onore di Alberto Cheti, a cura di Anna Lucarelli, Alberto Petrucciani, Elisabetta Viti; presentazione di Rosa Maiello. Roma: Associazione italiana biblioteche, 2019, p. 163-173.
Non perdere di vista gli scopi che l’indicizzazione per soggetto nei cataloghi di biblioteca dovrebbe perseguire e insieme tenere un occhio attento sulle caratteristiche effettive che hanno oggi i cataloghi potrebbe servire ad affrontare meglio le questioni concrete della pratica di indicizzazione e del miglioramento delle interfacce degli Opac, oggi molto rudimentali e poco efficaci. Ma il presupposto perché l’indicizzazione per soggetto d’ambito bibliotecario possa avere un futuro è che le biblioteche considerino quest’attività come rilevante e qualificante.

Notre approche vise à aider le travail d’indexation des bibliothécaires via les concepts provenant d’un vocabulaire contrôlé par des relations de sens contenues dans les notices descriptives. Dans notre travail de recherche, nous définissons automatiquement le thésaurus TERRIDOC en exploitant les spécificités du corpus liées à des termes qui « ont fait sens » au bibliothécaire lors de la constitution de la notice descriptive. Une phase de conceptualisation a permis dans un premier temps de définir en détails les différents modules pour créer automatiquement la structure sémantique représentant le travail d’indexation des experts, puis dans un second temps de proposer des interfaces représentant visuellement ce travail à des fins de validation du travail d’indexation des bibliothécaires et de navigation dans le fonds documentaire. À la suite de l’analyse et de la création de ce premier outil, nous proposons des moyens de contrôler et de valider le travail d’indexation. Notre travail ...

Purpose of the study:World over, transportation infrastructure projects face delays in commissioning and India is no exception. This study is carried out with an objective to specifically identify the critical delay factors in the commissioning of metro rail projects in India. Methodology: A questionnaire survey was conducted to identify the major causes of delay from the opinion of clients, contractors and consultants. Calculation of Relative Importance Index (RII) for the shortlisted factors yielded the ranking. The ranking by various categories of respondents was analysed using Spearman’s rank coefficient. Main Findings:The study concluded in identification of 10 most critical delay-factors from a list of 49 shortlisted factors spread across 7 categories. The identified factors included: (1) Delay in land acquisition and site handover to contractor, (2) Shifting of utilities and contingency works, (3) Scope change, (4)Delay in payments, (5) Effects of unforeseen subsurface and ch...

This essay presents a mission of reengineering of a thesaurus for the information intelligence and documentation unit of the banking group BPCE. After introducing the new standard ISO 25964 about thesauri and its main contributions, it discusses the specificities of a specialized thesaurus in business environment. The main topic of this paper is to provide methodological advice for this type of project management and to analyze the impact on participants’ skills and upon management of the team. To conclude, the author addresses the second part of the standard relating to interoperability between vocabularies in semantic Web context, and the involved opportunities for business applications.

نوشتارِ حاضر درپی آن است که روشی نو برای طبقه‌بندی و نمایه‌نویسیِ قصّه‌های پیامبران عرضه کند. بدین منظور و برای نمونه، نخست قصّة کودکی موسی از کهن‌ترین منابع فارسی گردآوری شد. سپس برای تبویب یا رده‌بندی و کدنویسیِ این قصّه، از شیوة تحلیلِ روایتِ تزوتان تودوروف یاری گرفته شد؛ و از این راه «نمایة ترتیبی» فراهم آمد؛ تا جوینده از بخش‌های کلّیِ قصّه‌ها به زیربخش‌ها، و تا جزئی‌ترین گزاره‌ها و موتیف‌های قصّه راهنمایی شود. در گام بعد با بهره‌گیری از شیوة نمایه‌سازی که در کتابِ «نمایة بن‌مایه‌های هزار و یک شب» به کار گرفته شده، گزاره‌های قصّه نیز به واژگان تجزیه شد؛ و با چینشِ الفباییِ این واژگان «نمایة الفباییِ» گزاره‌ها حاصل آمد. بدین ترتیب جوینده به یاریِ هر کلیدواژه‌ای خواهد توانست به بخشِ مقتضی از قصّه مراجعه کند. برای فایدة عام، خلاصة قصّه نیز که حاوی کدها و کلیدواژه‌هایی برای مراجعه به متن است به دست داده شد. ذیلِ هر گزاره شاهدی آورده شد از کهن‌ترین منبعی که آن را روایت کرده؛ و نشانیِ دیگر منابعِ روایت نیز آمد؛ تا پژوهشگر بتواند در صورت نیاز به منابعِ اصلی رجوع کند. در نهایت در این جستار قصّة کودکی موسی از ده کتابِ قصص و تفسیرِ کهن جمع‌آوری و رده‌بندی و کدگذاری و نمایه‌نویسی شد؛ تا پس از تکمیل یاریگری باشد برای پژوهش در قصّه‌های پیامبران.

—The operations of the Internet have led to a significant growth and accumulation of data known as Big Data. Individuals and organizations that utilize this data, had no idea, nor were they prepared for this data explosion. Hence, the available solutions cannot meet the needs of the growing heterogeneous data in terms of processing. This results in inefficient information retrieval or search query results. The design of indexing strategies that can support this need is required. A survey on various indexing strategies and how they are utilized for solving Big Data management issues can serve as a guide for choosing the strategy best suited for a problem, and can also serve as a base for the design of more efficient indexing strategies. The aim of the study is to explore the characteristics of the indexing strategies used in Big Data manageability by covering some of the weaknesses and strengths of B-tree, R-tree, to name but a few. This paper covers some popular indexing strategies used for Big Data management. It exposes the potentials of each by carefully exploring their properties in ways that are related to problem solving.

The past decade has been characterized by the growing volumes of data due to the widespread use of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, which introduced many challenges for efficient data storage and management. Thus, the efficient indexing and searching of large data collections is a very topical and urgent issue. Such solutions can provide users with valuable information about IoT data. However, efficient retrieval and management of such information in terms of index size and search time require optimization of indexing schemes which is rather difficult to implement. The purpose of this paper is to examine and review existing indexing techniques for large-scale data. A taxonomy of indexing techniques is proposed to enable researchers to understand and select the techniques that will serve as a basis for designing a new indexing scheme. The real-world applications of the existing indexing techniques in different areas, such as health, business, scientific experiments, and social networks, are presented. Open problems and research challenges, e.g., privacy and large-scale data mining, are also discussed.

Water quality is a significant criterion in matching water demand and supply. Securing adequate freshwater quality for both human and ecological needs is thus an important aspect of integrated environmental management and sustainable development. To represent water quality in a lucid way different water quality indices for water quality assessment are used which aim at giving a single value to the water quality of a source reducing great amount of parameters into a simpler expression and enabling easy interpretation of monitoring data. In this review, various water quality indices (WQI) used for assessing surface water quality are discussed. As different National and International Agencies involved in water quality assessment and pollution control defines water quality criteria for different uses of water considering different indicator parameters, so there are numerous WQI specific to any region or area. An attempt to cover different water quality indices developed worldwide, their background and application area has been discussed here. 1. INTRODUCTION Water is the prime natural resource. Acknowledging the vital importance of this scarce resource for human and animal life, as well as for maintaining ecological balance for economic and developmental activities of all kinds is a matter of utmost concern.In recent times, there has been a tremendous increase in demand for freshwater and water shortage in arid and semiarid regions due to population increase, urbanization, industrialization, and intense agricultural activities in many parts of world. Due to inadequate supply of surface waters, most of the people are depending mainly on groundwater resources for drinking and domestic, industrial, and irrigation uses. Innumerable large towns and many cities derive water supply from groundwater and surface water for different uses through municipality network and also from large number of private boreholes. Regular water quality monitoring of the water resources are absolutely necessary to assess the quality of water for ecosystem health and hygiene, industrial use, agricultural use and domestic use.Assessment of water quality can be a complex process undertaking multiple parameters capable of causing various stresses on overall water quality [8]. To evaluate water quality from a large number of samples, each containing concentrations for many parameters is difficult [2]. Traditional approaches to assessing water quality are based on the comparison of experimentally determined parameter values with the existing guidelines [19]. So, water quality indices are such approaches which minimises the data volume to a great extent and simplifies the expression of water quality status. Water quality index can be evaluated on the basis of various physical, chemical and bacteriological parameters. Numerous water quality indices have been formulated all over the world which can easily judge out the overall water quality within a particular area promptly and efficiently. For example, US National Sanitation Foundation Water Quality Index (NSFWQI), Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCMEWQI), British Columbia Water Quality Index (BCWQI), and Oregon Water Quality Index (OWQI) [1][35][40][63]. These indices are based on the comparison of the water

Among the wide range of digital libraries, an interesting, yet quite neglected, subclass is constituted by those exclusively dealing with newspaper clippings. Compared with book–oriented digital libraries, clipping libraries are more difficult to seize, since they are wide and unstructured, and the subjects and content of a clipping are completely heterogeneous. LAURIN is an EU–funded project involving seventeen participants from several countries, including two software companies and a large group of libraries, whose main purpose is to set up a network of digitalized newspaper clipping archives that can be easily accessed through the Internet, for searching and retrieving clippings. The project also provides the libraries with models and methodologies to be used for scanning, digitalizing, storing, indexing, and making accessible newspaper clippings. This paper concentrates on the main architectural features of the LAURIN distributed system, exposing the peculiarities deriving from...

This paper conducts the research into intrigue relationship between gender equality and globalization. The objective of this research paper is to determine the relationship between globalization types and their ability for supporting gender equality. Firstly the paper uses the KOF Globalization Index (University of Zurich) and the Global Gender Gap Index (OECD) to establish significance of relationship between those two variables. Furthermore, the paper examines the relationship between three dimensions (subindexes) of KOF Index 2009: economic globalization, social globalization and political globalization and gender equality level under particular globalization type what is the main research question examined here. The paper uses also the newly established SIGI Index 2012 (OECD) to estimate the significant or non-significant relation between sociocultural globalization (KOF Index) and the outcome achieved under social globalization type on gendered social contracts (SIGI Index). The aim of this paper is to study and evaluate which type of globalization type (as input variable) has the highest effect on gender equality creation within indicators which are suited to the input variable and measured as globalization type x outcome. This paper attempts to show as the Author forecasted the high positive correlation existance within the KOF economic globalization subindex and Global Gender Gap subindex of economic opportunities than within the KOF political globalization subindex and GGG subindex of political empowerment (outcome dimension). The sociocultural globalization type has been discovered as the most influential towards achieving gender equality and changing “social contracts” within society on more gender equal.

It has become a common trend among academic professionals to check listing/ranking of academic journals in recognized journal ranking/quality lists before submitting their articles for review and possible publication. In addition, professional research evaluation committees in universities often consult many quality journals ranking lists. Although a majority of scholars/institutions consider for-profit indexing/abstracting databases like SSCI, SCI, Scopus, IBSS, PsycINFO etc. to assess quality of journals, this article focuses on the not-for-profit academic journal quality/ranking lists developed by various institutions or governments. This editorial presents a review of select journal quality lists produced by not-for-profit organizations because academic products developed by for-profit companies always reflect some degree of bias (Krimsky, 2013). Therefore, the lists/rankings like Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) journal ranking, Cabell’s journals list, SCImago journal ranking (although it is free but it harvests data from for-profit database Scopus) will be excluded.

– The aim of this paper is to formulate strategies for Shaanxi Aviation Industrial Upgrading (SXAIU). First, a two-level index system was established by combining literature analysis and Delphi methods, which includes the key success factors and external driving forces affecting Shaanxi aviation industry (SXAI). After that, by using the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (well-known as TRIZ), these key factors were translated into critical problems and strategies were formulated to settle them. This study contributes in two ways. On the one hand, it could help to administrators of SXAI to adopt the short term strategies primarily and implement medium and long term strategies according to their own 3-to 5-year goals. On the other hand, the strategies established in this study are more operational and decision-making process is more transparent and scientific. Therefore, other industries in Shaanxi and other provinces can also adopt strategies developed in this study.

General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) merupakan salah satu model jaringan radial basis yang digunakan untuk pendekatan suatu fungsi. Model GRNN termasuk model jaringan syaraf tiruan dengan solusi yang cepat, karena tidak diperlukan iterasi yang besar pada estimasi bobot-bobotnya. Model ini memiliki arsitektur jaringan yang baku, dimana jumlah unit pada pattern layer sesuai dengan jumlah data input. Salah satu aplikasi GRNN adalah untuk memprediksi nilai return saham dari indeks Euro 50 CFD (Contract For Difference). Indeks Euro 50 CFD (Contract For Difference) digunakan sebagai patokan harga saham dari 50 perusahaan terbesar di zona Eropa. Para investor melakukan investasi di saham indeks Euro 50 CFD (Contract For Difference) dengan harapan mendapatkan kembali keuntungan yang sesuai dengan apa yang telah di investasikannya. Dengan menggunakan model GRNN diperoleh bahwa nilai RMSE dan R2 untuk data training sebesar 0,00095 dan 99,19%. Untuk data testing diperoleh nilai RMSE dan R2 sebesar 0,00725 dan 98,46%. Berdasarkan nilai prediksi return saham dua belas hari ke depan diperoleh kerugian tertinggi atau capital loss pada 15 Desember 2014 sebesar 5,583188% dan profit tertinggi atau capital gain pada tanggal 10 Desember 2014 sebesar 2,267641%

Indexing is the method of keeping the indices or a list of information being published. The modern indexing has a prolonged history and has evolved in many senses from its inception. This article gives an overview of the history of indexing, important people who contributed towards indexing, usage and importance. The article is divided into sections based on the chronology of indexing and its development in stages and aims to provide valuable insights to the reader. Keywords: History of indexing, indexing, contributors, research, development of indexing I. INTRODUCTION Indexing the term as described in the dictionary is a list, a page, a name or a collection of information listed in alphabetical order (as of bibliographical information or citations to a body of literature). It can be also considered that it aids to count the number of times people have shared/viewed the work etc. Indexing plays a huge importance in research as it facilitates the ease of search for the works of authors, researches etc. as per relevancy and aids citation i.e. giving proper references of the previous literature in the field. Modern-day indexing uses computational and complex algorithms to search as per the keywords, which is developed and has been advanced upon the works of many contributors since ages which are further discussed in this review paper.