... that their sys-tem represents a powerful way of dealing with su-perlatives computationally, a closer inspection of their approach, and in particular of the gold stan-dard data set, reveals ... Elements ofaComputational Treat-ment of Superlatives For an interpretation of comparisons, two things are generally of interest: What is being compared, and with respect to what this comparison ... IS -A relation that holds between target and comparison set (cf. Relation 2 in Section 3). They 68are a good initial focus for acomputational ap-proach because both their target and comparison...
... (substantial) general- isation of the idea of passing smaller informationbits around, out of the domain of ASR and into thesystem as a whole. Some of the characterisations of the behaviour of ... TechnicalReport RR-95-11, DFKI, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany.Staffan Larsson and David Traum. 2000. Informationstate and dialogue management in the TRINDI dia-logue move engine toolkit. Natural Language ... here,we can abstract away from these differences andassume that only actual increments are commu-nicated. (Practically, it might be an advantage tokeep using an existing processor and just wrap...
... the rational craftsman’s approach to war couldeasily work against ideas of restraint in war, a point dramatically illu-strated in India by the Arthas´astra of Kautilya. This was a manual of statesmanship ... formal declaration.60Nor, apparently, was it thought necessary to have a formal declaration of war in the case of certain small-scale, one-offoperations ofa punitive character.61Declarations ... implications for international law of such a sharpdemarcation of the boundary between war and peace were immense. Mostoutstandingly, it made the idea ofa state of war easy to envisage. In sucha...
... Berns E, Dalamagas HC, Hanna A, Silverman DI: Predictors of conversion of atrial fibrillationafter cardiac operation in the absence of class I or III antiar-rhythmic medications. Ann Thorac Surg ... amiodarone: a meta-analysis of ran-domized controlled trials. Pharmacotherapy 2002, 22:66-74.95. Singh BN: Antiarrhythmic actions of amiodarone: a profile of a paradoxical agent. Am J Cardiol 1996, ... 294:283-284.29. Aviles RJ, Martin DO, Apperson-Hansen C, Houghtaling PL,Rautaharju P, Kronmal RA, Tracy RP, Van Wagoner DR, PsatyBM, Lauer MS, et al.: Inflammation as a risk factor for atrial fib-rillation....
... General Hospital, Bari, Italy 6. Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, General Hospital, Bari, Italy 7. Department of Surgical, Reconstructive and Diagnostic Sciences, General Hospital, Milano, ... 3. Department of “Head and Neck Diseases”, Hospital “Fatebenefratelli”, Rome, Italy 4. Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Calabrodental, Crotone, Italy 5. Department of Dental Sciences and ... Gianna Dipalma4 1. Department of Dental Sciences and Surgery, General Hospital, Bari, Italy 2. Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical Biology and Physics, General Hospital, Bari, Italy...
... Publisher. All rights reserved Case Report Treatment of oroantral fistula with autologous bone graft and application of a non-reabsorbable membrane Adele Scattarella1, Andrea Ballini1, ... Roberto Grassi1, Andrea Carbonara1, Francesco Ciccolella1, Angela Dituri1, Gianna Maria Nardi2, Stefania Cantore1, Francesco Pettini1 1. Department of Dental Sciences and Surgery, ... bone graft integrated by xenologous parti-culate bone graft. Background: Acute and chronic oroantral communications (OAC, OAF) can occur as a result of inadequate treatment. In fact surgical procedures...
... Length of fol-low-up was at least 3 years with a maximum of 6 years. Location of facet pain was cervical in 45, tho-racic in 15, and lumbar in 114 patients. Surgical times varied based on ... durable for at least 3 years. Larger scale trials with a control group are warranted to further evaluate the relative efficacy of this surgical treatment in patients with facet joint disease. ... 18. Stone JA, Bartynski WS. Treatmentof facet and sacroiliac joint arthropathy: steroid injections and radiofrequency ablation. Tech Vasc Interv Radiol 2009;12:22-32. 19. Tzaan WC, Tasker RR....
... treating osteoarthritis (OA). The present clinical trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of UC-II as compared to a combination of glucosamine and chondroitin (G+C) in the treatment of OA of ... greater than 2 g/day for more than 7 days. All blood samples were analyzed by MDS Laboratory Services (London, Ontario, Canada). Appropriateness of Measurements The efficacy and safety assessments ... than 50% in individuals >60 years of age (19). Although there are no curative therapies currently available for OA, individualized treatment programs are available to help relieve pain and...
... Sakuraba H, Kotani M, Kase R, KobayashiK, Takeuchi M, Ogasawara S, Maruyama Y, NakajimaT, Takaoka Y et al. (2002) Production in yeast of alpha-galactosidase A, a lysosomal enzyme applicable ... potential of MDR1 inhibition as an approach to treatment of Fabry disease in man and was carried outunder ethical approval. Mice were euthanized under condi-tions of minimized trauma.Extraction of ... Cardarelli CO, Sugimoto Y, Pastan I,Gottesman MM, Brady RO et al. (1997) alpha-Galac-tosidase A deficient mice: a model of Fabry disease.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94 , 2540–2544.8 Chiba Y, Sakuraba...
... generating adequate meanings for a locative expression in a particular situation, is our benchmark for representational adequacy. The spatial meaning Ofa projective preposi- tional predication ... is a conceptualiza- tion of the space around a reference object as six 4Natural language sentences are parsed to three branch quantifiers using a prolog DCG grammar, the logical predicates ... current computational linguistic approaches. We have attempted to tackle the in- formality of this ideational view of meaning, by addressing one particular basic cognitive domain, that of oriented...