Making use of twigs

Order-Aware Twigs: Adding Order Semantics to Twigs

Although many algorithms have been proposed for evaluating XPath queries containing child and descendant axes and predicates (XPATH/,//,[ ]) against XML data, there are very few efforts towards developing algorithms for processing path expressions with other axes namely, following, preceding, following-sibling and preceding-sibling. In this article, we demonstrate that the conventional twig-str...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

the use of appropriate madm model for ranking the vendors of mci equipments using fuzzy approach

abstract nowadays, the science of decision making has been paid to more attention due to the complexity of the problems of suppliers selection. as known, one of the efficient tools in economic and human resources development is the extension of communication networks in developing countries. so, the proper selection of suppliers of tc equipments is of concern very much. in this study, a ...

Making Use of Intentions

The objective of an assistive system is to support a human being in everyday life. In general, this support can address conscious needs as well as unconscious ones. Conscious needs may be mere desires or they may become intentions that give rise to deliberate, conscious actions. In this case, an assistive system may try to infer a person’s intentions from the observed actions. Otherwise, an ass...

Flavonoids from Twigs of Millettia leptobotrya Dunn

A new furanoisoflavone, 2'-methoxy-4',5'-methylenedioxy-[2'',3'':7,8] furanoisoflavone, leptobotryanone (1), and a new natural O-prenylated isoflavone, 4'-γ,γ-dimethylallyloxy-5,7-dihydroxyisoflavone (2), were isolated from the twigs of Millettia leptobotrya, together with twelve known flavonoids, 4'-γ,γdimethylallyloxy-5-hydroxy-7-methoxyisoflavone (3), 2',6,7-trimethoxy-4',5'-methylenedioxyis...