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In this paper a multilingual method for event ordering based on temporal expression resolution is presented. This method has been implemented through the TERSEO system which consists of three main units: temporal expression recognizing, resolution of the coreference introduced by these expressions, and event ordering. By means of this system, chronological information related to events can be extracted from documental databases. This information is automatically added to the documental database in order to allow its use by question answering systems in those cases referring to temporality. The system has been evaluated obtaining results of 91 % precision and 71 % recall. For this, a blind evaluation process has been developed guaranteing a reliable annotation process that was measured through the kappa factor. ; This paper has been supported by the Spanish government, projects FIT-150500-2002-244 and FIT-150500-2002-416.

Sovereignty may be most explicitly and prominently associated with space, but it has always had a no less important relationship to time. This becomes clear when we move beyond the narrow idea of sovereignty as the supreme power extended over a territory -- a view that often further assumes this power's immediate and ever-present force -- and consider notions of (moral) legitimacy, legality, obedience and obligation with which it is also associated. A distinctly temporal dimension to sovereignty's founding and persistence emerges in both classical accounts such as Locke's, for whom a past act of express or tacit consent obliges present and future obedience to the government, and more recent accounts such as Derrida's, for whom the declaration that establishes sovereign institutions retroactively invokes the prior identity and authority of a people that did not actually exist before the declaration itself (see Derrida (1986) and Locke (1989), Second Treatise, [section]119). It is the temporal side of sovereignty that I will explore in my contribution to this critical exchange. Adapted from the source document.

In this paper we present a system that automatically builds ordered timelines of events from different written texts in English. The system deals with problems such as automatic event extraction, cross-document temporal relation extraction and cross-document event coreference resolution. Its main characteristic is the application of three different types of knowledge: temporal knowledge, lexical-semantic knowledge and distributional-semantic knowledge, in order to anchor and order the events in the timeline. It has been evaluated within the framework of SemEval 2015. The proposed system improves the current state-of-the-art systems in all measures (up to eight points of F1-score over other systems) and shows a significant advance in the Cross-document event ordering task. ; This paper has been partially supported by the Spanish government, project TIN2015-65100-R and project TIN2015-65136-C2-2-R.

Drawing from interdependence theory and focal participants (anchors) and their intimate partners who remained coupled at Waves 1, 3, and 5 of the German Family Panel (pairfam; N = 1,543), the authors examined the temporal ordering between anchor and partner supportive dyadic coping with anchor commitment and willingness to sacrifice for an intimate partner. Autoregressive cross‐lagged modeling analyses revealed that anchor and partner supportive dyadic coping predicted higher levels of commitment and willingness to sacrifice, and willingness to sacrifice predicted less supportive dyadic coping only for anchors. There were no longitudinal associations between commitment and willingness to sacrifice, and gender did not moderate associations among the variables.

Abstract: While clinical routine focuses on dichotomous and visual interpretation of amyloid PET, in a research setting, regional image assessment may yield additional opportunities. Understanding the regional-temporal evolution of amyloid pathology may enable the earlier identification of subjects who are in the Alzheimer's Disease pathological continuum, as well as a more fine-grained assessment of pathology beyond traditional dichotomous measures. This review summarises the current research in the detection of regional amyloid deposition patterns and its potential for staging amyloid pathology. Pathology studies, cross-sectional and longitudinal PET-only studies, and comparative PET and autopsy studies are included. Despite certain differences, cortical deposition generally precedes striatal pathology, and in PET-only studies, medial cortical regions are seen to accumulate amyloid earlier than lateral regions. Based on regional amyloid PET, multiple studies have developed and implemented models for staging amyloid pathology which could improve subject selection into secondary prevention trials and visual assessment in clinical routine. ; The project leading to this paper received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant 115952. This joint undertaking receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and EFPIA. This publication solely reflects the author's view and neither IMI nor the European Union, and EFPIA are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

In lawsuits, relative success depends upon two main factors: the true degree of fault, & the efforts invested on each side. A proposed Litigation Success Function displays this dependence while satisfying other essential properties. Under two different protocols, Nash-Cournot & Stackelberg, solutions are obtained for the litigation efforts, proportionate success, & values of the lawsuit on each side. Outcomes are evaluated in terms of two normative criteria; (i) achieving "justice" (interpreted as equality between Defendant fault & relative Plaintiff success) & (ii) minimizing aggregate litigation cost. Achievement of these aims is determined by the decisiveness of litigation effort relative to true fault. 8 Figures, 26 References. Adapted from the source document.