A complex combination of clinical, demographic and lifestyle parameters determines the correct diagnosis most effective treatment for asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients. Artificial Intelligence techniques help clinicians in devising designing suitable clinical pathway accordingly, tailored to specific patient conditions. In case machine learning (ML) approaches, availability ...

In this paper we try to unify the frameworks of definitions of semantic security, indistinguishability and nonmalleability by defining semantic security in comparison based framework. This facilitates the study of relations among these goals against different attack models and makes the proof of the equivalence of semantic security and indistinguishability easier and more understandable. Beside...

The choice of the mathematical form of spatial correlation functions for optical fields is restricted by the constraint of nonnegative definiteness. We discuss a sufficient condition for ensuring the satisfaction of such a constraint.

A vision articulates the desired future state for the lo@tics fitnctions in a company. During the iogistical visioning process, d@erent scenarios are formed and evaluated taking into account the objectives and strategies of the various interest groups. The vision is then transformed into strategic goals, i.e. specific long-term performance targets. The visioning process is unstructured by natur...

In this paper we try to unify the frameworks of definitions of semantic security, indistinguishability and non-malleability by defining semantic security in comparison based framework. This facilitates the study of relations among these goals against different attack models and makes the proof of the equivalence of semantic security and indistinguishability easier and more understandable. Besid...

A defining characteristic of intelligent software agents is their ability to flexibly and reliably pursue goals, and many modern agent platforms provide some form of goal construct. However, these platforms are surprisingly naive in their handling of interactions between goals. Whilst previous work has provided mechanisms to identify and react appropriately to various sorts of interactions, it ...

rationality and spirituality is a theory follows the spiritualism in west, to fill the spiritual gap made by modernism. the goal of this theory is reduction of human’s pain by collecting between rationality and spirituality, which is engendered by modernism and religion. as modernism based on reason, rationality is fundamental in this theory. spiritualty is application of rationality or is pers...

In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal types and propose a simple and general definition of goal, which unifies these goal types. We then give a formal and generic operationalization of goals by defining an abstract goal architecture, which describes the ado...

BACKGROUND Understanding and addressing the needs of frail persons is an emerging health priority for Nova Scotia and internationally. Primary healthcare (PHC) providers regularly encounter frail persons in their daily clinical work. However, routine identification and measurement of frailty is not standard practice and, in general, there is a lack of awareness about how to identify and respond...