This thesis presents an initial application of the Evolving Transformation System (ETS) formalism to the structural representation of Russian fairy tales. This work was motivated by the needs of information retrieval (IR) in general, but specifically concentrates on proposing a new type of document representation. The new representation is based on the temporal or constructive process of events...

The molecular mechanisms causing the development of squamous cell carcinomas in the head and neck region are mostly unknown. Identification of molecular changes which are involved in carcinogenesis might play a key role in improving the diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of patients with carcinomas in the head and neck. The purpose of the study was to identify transcriptional alterations of apopt...

Particle filtering is an effective sequential Monte Carlo approach to solve the recursive Bayesian filtering problem in non-linear and non-Gaussian systems. The algorithm is based on importance sampling. However, in the literature, the proper choice of the proposal distribution for importance sampling remains a tough task and has not been resolved yet. Inspired by the animal swarm intelligence ...

In this paper, the authors show that PLS path modeling can be used to assess a hierarchical construct model. They provide guidelines outlining four key steps to construct a hierCarol Saunders was the accepting senior editor for this paper. archical construct model using PLS path modeling. This approach is illustrated empirically using a reflective, fourthorder latent variable model of online ex...

BACKGROUND Induction of pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopic surgery leads to diverse cardiovascular changes that can be used as a model to study pathophysiologic phenomena. Application of novel signal processing and figure extraction enabled searching for correlation between various signals and pathophysiologic setting. Our aim was to quantitatively correlate cardiac functionality (as expresse...

A facile hydrothermal assisted in-situ precipitation technique was employed for synthesizing highly efficient porous graphitic carbon/manganese dioxide (PGC/MnO 2 ) nanocomposite adsorbent using calcium alginate as carbon precursor. Morphological and structural characterization scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, transmission , diffraction techniques...

Documents can be represented as structures with a hierarchial arrangement of text and non-text nodes, where nodes are labeled by category names such as paragraph and section. Representing documents this way is a natural consequence of using the Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML) to encode text documents which has many applications in different areas. There are many circumstances in whic...

Relic neutrinos with mass in the range indicated by Super-Kamiokande results if neutrino masses are hierarchial (about 0.07 eV) are many times deemed too light to be cosmologically relevant. Here we remark that these neutrinos may significantly contribute to the dark matter of the Universe (with a large lepton asymmetry L) and that their existence might be revealed by the spectrum of ultra high...