Computing diagnoses in domains with continuously changing data is a difficult, but essential aspect of solving many problems. To address this task, this paper describes a dynamic influence diagram (ID) construction and updating system, DYNASTY, and its application to constructing a decision-theoretic model to diagnose acute abdominal pain, a domain in which the findings evolve during the diagno...

During the Later Qing Dynasty and so-called “Warlord Period” (1906-1923) China suffered from numerous and violent internal conflicts, or “civil wars”. These conflicts are thought to have slowed the pace of economic development and, especially, growth in infrastructure. I study these alleged impacts using a new panel data set linking archival data for Chinese railroads to detailed information on...

Marriages arranged to support political alliances between Hellenistic kingdoms were a symbol of peace dynasties. These marriages especially applied the two important world, Seleucid and Ptolemaic With diplomatic marriages, aimed make process permanent. In text that will come into effect after Second Syrian War (260-253 BC) kingdoms, marriage be realized these dynasties was reflected in treaty K...

Although acupuncture theory is a fundamental part of the Huangdi Neijing, the clinical application of the needle therapy in ancient China was always a limited one. From early times there have been warnings that acupuncture might do harm. In books like Zhang Zhongjing's Shanghanlun it plays only a marginal role. Among the 400 emperors in Chinese history, acupuncture was hardly ever applied. Afte...

Due to the less accessibility to the data, relatively little literature has been found on how the ancient kiln site evolves. To understand how land has transformed kiln in ancient Jingdezhen DongHe River Basin from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, we create virtual maps of ancient study area and present such concepts that unambiguously realize a combination model. In this model, Model para...

Many linguists consider morphological awareness a major factor that affects children’s reading development. A Chinese character embedded in different compound words may carry related but different meanings. For example, “商 店(store)”, “商品(commodity)”, “商代(Shang Dynasty)”, and “商朝(Shang Dynasty)” can form two clusters: {“商店”, “商 品”} and {“商代”, “商朝”}. In this paper, we aim at unsupervised clusteri...

To understand how land has transformed kiln in ancient Jingdezhen DongHe River Basin from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, we create virtual maps of ancient study area and present such concepts that unambiguously realize a combination model. In this model, Model parameters and neighborhood rules are obtained with the cellular automata model melt Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. Meanw...

Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) is a well-known method for elemental analysis in many different specimens for various applied studies. In this paper, we report an application of PIXE analysis for a series of ancient Chinese coins from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty (AD 618-1679). Ninety-six PIXE spectra were obtained from forty-eight samples of the ancient coins with the use of a Ge(...

We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage that is unusually frequent in northeastern China and Mongolia, in which a haplotype cluster defined by 15 Y short tandem repeats was carried by approximately 3.3% of the males sampled from East Asia. The most recent common ancestor of this lineage lived 590 +/- 340 years ago (mean +/- SD), and it was detected in Mongolians and six Chinese minority popu...