Foreword on Salience

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On Evidential Feature Salience

This paper describes a method for estimating the salience of features comprising conceptual descriptions of software artifacts. Salience estimates are used in a model analyzing the similarity between such descriptions so as to promote the analogical reuse of the artifacts described by them. Salience is conceived as belief on the dominance of a feature, which is defined on the basis of three gen...

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Editorial Foreword

Evidence is steadily accumulating that a large number of diseases in which historical therapies have made no signifi cant impact in outcome are suddenly for the fi rst time effectively treated to yield outcomes unimaginable with prior therapies. Because of the complexities of signaling mechanisms and variation in these mechanisms between disease processes, thorough and standardized testing of e...

Editorial Foreword

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Vascular Health and Risk Management. It is our hope that this journal will provide a vehicle for the timely publication of important clinical information from studies undertaken by the international scientific community in academia and other institutions (ie, public, private, and government). Here at Dove Medical Press, we recognize that it is going to take som...