Date: Sun, 15. November 2009 09:47:47

A former home improvement store clerk in West Virginia has been charged with discounting $20,000 worth of merchandise to win a man's heart.

Date: Thu, 11. November 2010 22:41:23

The German engineering firm Siemens has seen a sharp improvement in profit and reports a booming order book.

Date: Tue, 20. October 2009 15:04:56

After six straight months of double-digit declines, U.S. video game sales finally saw an improvement in September.

Date: Mon, 28. February 2011 09:24:06

Gerard Houllier has hailed the improvement in Aston Villa winger Stewart Downing during the current campaign.

Date: Tue, 14. June 2011 10:03:00

Tesco posted an increase in first-quarter revenues today (14 June), with the company seeing an improvement in UK like-for-like sales - although they still fell.

Date: Wed, 23. March 2011 12:48:00

Sainsbury's CEO Justin King was today (23 March) pessimistic about the chances of any improvement in UK consumer confidence in the near future.

Date: Fri, 13. November 2009 13:21:19

A former home improvement store clerk in West Virginia has been charged with discounting $20,000 worth of merchandise to win a man's heart.

Date: Wed, 20. October 2010 06:28:32

French strikers plan to continue their national walkout on Wednesday, but some improvement to rail services is expected.

Date: Tue, 17. January 2012 23:18:34

The popularity of single-cup coffee makers is soaring, but even the industry admits that there's room for improvement when it comes to the impact on the environment.

Date: Sun, 7. March 2010 15:05:13

Hugh Pickens writes "A new study shows that the patterns of collaboration among Wikipedia contributors directly affect the quality of an article. 'These collaboration patterns either help increase quality or are detrimental to data quality,' says Sudha Ram at the University of Arizona. Wikipedia has an internal quality rating system for entries, with featured articles at the top, followed by A, B, and C-level entries. Ram and graduate student Jun Liu randomly collected 400 articles at each quality level. 'We used data mining techniques and identified various patterns of collaboration based on the provenance or, more specifically, who does what to Wikipedia articles,' says Ram. The researchers identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play (PDF starting on page 175): Casual Contributor, Starter, Cleaner, Copy Editor, Content Justifier, Watchdog, and All-round Editor. Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. The all-round contributors perform many different functions. 'We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted,' says Ram. 'We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated.'"pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/1917223/Why-Wikipedia-Articles-Vary-So-Much-In-Quality?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/06/1917223"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F06%2F1917223%2FWhy-Wikipedia-Articles-Vary-So-Much-In-Quality" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Why+Wikipedia+Articles+Vary+So+Much+In+Quality%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdbLer1" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/1917223/Why-Wikipedia-Articles-Vary-So-Much-In-Quality?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3CkPU-33FA7zcEAgfUunHHDgNc4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3CkPU-33FA7zcEAgfUunHHDgNc4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3CkPU-33FA7zcEAgfUunHHDgNc4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3CkPU-33FA7zcEAgfUunHHDgNc4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/y19S9wuDMus" height="1" width="1"/