There are not many studies pertaining to the spinal or limb abnormalities in people with intellectual disabilities, without a clear profile of these deformities of them, efforts to understand its characters and improve their quality of life will be impossible. Therefore, this paper aims to describe the prevalence and related factors of spinal and limb abnormalities in adolescents with intellect...

Computer network security systems need to incorporate arti cial intelligence methods for plan recognition Plan recognition is critical both to predicting the future actions of attackers and planning appro priate responses to their actions This paper presents an argument for including plan recognition in such systems and discusses the problems network computer security presents to plan recogniti...

Our hypothesis is that by equipping certain agents in a multi-agent system controlling an intelligent building with automated decision support, two important factors will be increased. The rst is energy saving in the building. The second is customer value|how the people in the building experience the effects of the actions of the agents. We give evidence for the truth of this hypothesis through...

Measurements were carried out in 146 limbs with angiographically documented arterial occlusive disease (AOD) and in 85 limbs without AOD. Ankle systolic pressure (AP) was equal to or higher than brachial systolic pressure in limbs without AOD. It was below 82% of the brachial in all limbs with complete occlusion, usually below 50% in those with multiple occlusions, and above 50% in limbs with s...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to describe the three-dimensional (3D) anatomic variations of the femoral vein (FV) and popliteal vein (PV) in relation to the accompanying artery using CT venography. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective review of 445 bilateral (890 limbs) lower limb CT venograms. After the 3D relationship between the FV and PV and accompanying artery was analyzed, the prese...

Measurements were carried out in 146 limbs with angiographically documented arterial occlusive disease (AOD) and in 85 limbs without AOD. Ankle systolic pressure (AP) was equal to or higher than brachial systolic pressure in limbs without AOD. It was below 82% of the brachial in all limbs with complete occlusion, usually below 50% in those with multiple occlusions, and above 50% in limbs with s...

In 1998, Bedau et al. de ned a set of metrics for characterizing the long-term evolutionary dynamics of a system. They argued that no known arti cial system demonstrates the unbounded evolutionary activity observed in the fossil record. In response we have developed a series of toy models that approach and eventually succeed in demonstrating unbounded evolutionary activity. The underwhelming su...

We propose a preliminary exploration of the outskirts of the research area concerned with the design of arti cial reality systems. Our goal is to clarify the concept of arti cial reality and its connections both with other kinds of computer systems and with the world we live in (natural reality). In order to provide a framework for such a discussion, we sketch a list of dimensions along which t...

Various experiments were performed on the limb buds of axolotls to compare the behaviour of amphibian limbs with that previously reported for chick limbs. Following removal of the tip or whole limb bud, extensive powers of regulation were observed since complete limbs always formed. Similarly after distal to proximal grafts intercalary regulation occurred to produce perfect limbs and after prox...