... emulate human decision making and learning abilities The founding father of artificial intelligence is Alan Mathison Turing, through his writings that include Computing Machinery and Intelligence ... entering the English language at a pace, and are beginning to frequent dictionaries of a general nature; terms that are prefixed by on-line are widespread, including on-line shopping, online banking, ... processor services that include: A company specialising in card processing, offering • Billing • Settlement • Management Information Services (MIS) 25 Acrobat Acrobat An Adobe file format that permits...
... turbomachinery of the CAES plant is like a combustion turbine, but the compressor and the expander operate independently In a combustion turbine, the air thatis used to drive the turbine is compressed ... difference isthat wind turbines require more attention than a transmission line Roads are not usually built to transmission line towers, while they are built to wind turbines Roads and maintenance ... Wind Power Gary L Johnson The wind is a free, clean, and inexhaustible energy source It has served humankind well for many centuries by propelling ships and driving wind turbines to grind grain...
... white men.” Comedian Robin Williams, in one of his best-known stand-up routines, riffs this criticism by imitating a drunken Scotsman who invented a sport that requires knocking a ball into “a gopher ... hole, his second shot smashed into the back of the green and bounced over into the rough He ended up recording a disastrous triple bogey, finishing with a disappointing double bogey for an 80 His ... property In the eighteenth century two holes were combined, reducing the total to nine, and the accepted practice became to begin with nine holes out, turn around, and finish with nine holes back In...
... ectodomain shedding, and their soluble ectodomains have been detected in the conditioned media of transfected cell lines and in human cerebrospinal fluid [35–37] Although substantial data indicate that ... NaCl ⁄ Tris mouse brain extracts was revealed by the ectodomain-directed antibody 22C11 but not by the C-terminal specific antibody C8 indicates that this protein lacks an intact C-terminus and probably ... indicated that the 14.3 kDa band is a BACE1 cleavage product (Fig 4D) An additional faint band migrating at 15.4 kDa (indicated by an asterisk in Fig 4C) was occasionally detected in WT and...
... adenosine 3¢,5¢-monophosphate and the phosphatidylinositol-Ca2+ cascades in mediating the effects of thyrotropin and iodide on hormone synthesis and secretion in human thyroid slices J Clin Endocrinol ... curve analysis by the statistical curve-fitting package ENZFITTER (ElsevierBiosoft, Cambridge, UK) showed that PTU is as potent as MMI in inhibiting this enzyme PTU produced 50% inhibition of the initial ... cyclic-3¢,5¢-AMP, NaF and prostaglandin E1 Endocrinology 86, 396–405 11 Corvilain, B., Van Sande, J., Laurent, E & Dumont, J.E (1991) The H2O2-generating system modulates protein iodination and the activity...
... L4(2) can be transformed into L6 by the homomorphism erasing ca,d and e TAG languages are closed under homomorphisms and thus the categorial language L4(2) is not a TAG language TAG languages ... categorial It is interesting to note that lexieal functional grammar can generate the first two languages mentioned above and indexed languages can generate References {a nbn2a ~' In> tl} Linguistic Properties ... its left and right subtrees, obtaining an F - r e d e x or an F P - r e d e x Let v the resulting terminal string We say t h a t u has been transformed into v by rotation We now obtain results...
... exceeds percent of family income, if an individual is uninsured for fewer than three months, if an individual’s income is below the federal tax-filing threshold, or if the individual meets other ... through many factors, including: • Simplified enrollment and redetermination processes and systems;1 • Robust outreach and education; • Culturally competent and linguistically appropriate outreach and ... coverage and individuals’ choices in taking up health care coverage For employers with employees that are predominantly in lower income families, there will be less incentive to offer coverage, since...
... English-Spanish parallel texts and finally Annex C deals with EnglishGerman ones We discuss in the following lines of the English-French alignment Among the correct alignments, we find domain dependant ... number of distinct letters preceding a suffix of length n-1 For instance, in the first English document of our corpus, “g” is preceded by distinct letters, “ng” by and “ing” by 10: “ing” is probably ... bitexts, composed of two languages L1 and L2 There is no guarantee for a sequence S1 which is repeated in many texts of language L1 to have a unique translation in the corresponding texts of language...
... linguistics Taipei, Taiwan, pages 1–7 Klein, Dan and Christopher D Manning 2003 Accurate unlexicalized parsing In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics ... Although image understanding is a popular topic within computer vision, relatively little work has focused on the interplay between visual and linguistic information A handful of approaches generate ... Modeling semantic aspects for cross-media image indexing IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 29(10):1802–1817 Salton, Gerard and M.J McGill 1983 Introduction to Modern Information...
... [Andr6 & Rist 90a] Elisabeth Andr~ and Thomas Rist Towards a Plan-Based Synthesis of Illustrated Documents In: 9th ECAI, 25-30, 1990 [Andrd & Rist 90b] Elisabeth Andr~ and Thomas Rlst Generating ... techniques: annotating by placing the text string inside an object projection, close to it, or by using arrows starting at the text string and pointing to the intended object Which annotation ... revisions of preliminary results, massive replanning or plan repairs, and many negotiations between the corresponding design and realization components in order to achieve a fine-grained and...
... remain like that, having all the fighting and that element in the house.” As Josh reached school age, his home life changed dramatically His mother took a job as an administrator in a local business ... promise of permanence, nor is it the only option for bearing and rearing children, but there is no clear route to building and maintaining an intimate bond Most women no longer assume they can ... world of disconnected individuals Most prefer instead to build a life that balances autonomy and commitment in the context of satisfying work and an egalitarian partnership Yet changing lives...
... the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded that the indication for ENI in such cases is uncertain [5] It appears that more studies are needed to address this issue In our large single-institution ... clinical outcome and pattern of failure of 3D-CRT without ENI in treating NSCLC after staging with PET scanning Methods Patient selection and cancer staging We retrospectively reviewed the clinical ... with less than 2% isolated ENF in our study IFRT alone appears adequate for inoperable NSCLC The main rationale for foregoing ENI isthat gross disease is not being controlled according to the...
... risk is lowered after adjustment for competing risks isin accordance with the findings of Satagopan et al, who reported that the cumulative incidence of breast cancer mortality is reduced, compared ... from prostate cancer Kaplan-Meier curves cannot be adjusted for competing risks [7] However, cumulative incidence of mortality can be adjusted for competing risks [7] Our finding that the cumulative ... Johnston GM, Illing EMM, Mao Y, Semenciw RM: The making of the Canadian cancer registry: cancer incidence in Canada and its regions, 1969 to 1988 Ottawa , Minister of Supply and Services; 1993:Catalogue...
... Biosciences, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA): RcAMP (a protein kinase A [PKA] inhibitor), calphostin C (a general inhibitor of protein kinase C [PKC]), rottlerin (an inhibitor of PKCδ) or Gö6976 (an inhibitor ... Western blotting using polyclonal anti-ANK and anti-PC-1 antibody The protein band intensities were quantified by densitometry from enhanced chemiluminescence immunoblots The relative abundance of ... 15 minutes and subjected to Western blotting using anti-phospho- and anti-total-ERK 1/2 antibodies The relative abundance of these proteins was normalized to that of β-actin protein gests that, ...
... absolute risk because SAAT volume is greater than VAT [19]; jjjj) in adults, visceral fat is directly associated with liver inflammation and fibrosis independently of insulin resistance and HS and ... inflammatory markers and, in few cases, minimal elevation of aminotransferase can exist in this particular population, at least at the moment of study Discussing possible mechanisms and explanations ... our findings, we can argue that IR presence is the most important factor in determining the fat deposition in organs (in our case liver) unrelated to BMI, visceral and subcutaneous abdominal...
... and first responders at an increased risk of inhalational anthrax should another terrorist event, similar to the anthrax mailings in 2001, occur Clearly there is a need for an effective vaccine ... inducing both innate and humoral immunity and does not induce clotting even when administered at high concentrations The resulting polyclonal anti-sera conferred protection against in vitro and ... alone once antibiotic therapy was discontinued This indicates that a combined treatment approach for patients presenting with clinical signs of anthrax infection could overall increase in survival...
... cortisol samples especially in the clinical sample this data is unsecure, nevertheless the finding isin line with our hypothesis that SOC but not BDI and BAI measures generalized anxiety, since ... comorbidity is common in this age group and depressive and anxious problems in combination with ADHD, conduct disorder or situational anxiety may explain a possible decrease of SOC and also the ... leading to a diminished comprehensibility and manageability In other psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, conduct disorder or situational anxiety this is not necessarily the case However, comorbidity...
... design, acquisition of data, and the analysis or interpretation of data; been involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and given final approval ... associated negative clinical outcomes Considering the rising overall resource use and economic burden of caring for critically ill patients [25-27], our finding that ICU delirium isan independent predictor ... ICU and hospital stays shown in this cohort warrant strong consideration by multidisciplinary ICU teams Standardized clinical monitoring of brain function (both arousal level and delirium) is in...
... out the PC and APC assays LK, PM, HR, and JP analysed the data PM, EK, PP, HR, and JP assisted in drafting the manuscript RH assisted in the original design and drafting of the final manuscript ... typically ranging from 250% to over 800% of the normal mean were observed during the first minutes of reperfusion in liver transplantation [26] and during an infusion of antithymocyte globulin, a ... of protein C following infusion of protein C concentrate in children with severe meningococcal sepsis and purpura fulminans: a randomized, doubleblinded, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study...