The Message Handler identifies an individual MUC message unit and controls the flow o f operations of the whole system for one message . It reads sentences, and sends one sentence at a time to the ITP Natural Language Understanding Module . It prunes temporal and locative expressions, which are added back later to modify events . The ITP NLU Module parses one sentence, and maps its parse tree o...

The soccer robot system and the eeective multi agents cooperation strategy which has been applied to the BALL BREAKER team is presented. The main part of the presented strategy is composed of three role task handlers, an avoidance task handler and an arbiter. The role of each robot is deened as ooense, defence and goal keeping. Each role task handler determines the target position where the rob...

We propose the flying object that adapts itself to the environment by means of the dynamic behavior change mechanism. The flying object is user-defined, first-class and abstract entity. Such properties provide independency and transparency. The flying object model establishes a unique decomposition of the flying object. In this model, the flying object consists of four objects: the delegator th...

Despite numerous studies emerging on the human-horse relationship, significant gaps exist in identification of horse and handler factors that influence quality their relationship. Here, we explore key affecting human-animal relationships: number regular handlers an animal has, length relationship with handler, owner changes, familiarity handler. A total 76 horses participated two novel object t...

BACKGROUND Foodborne diseases are an important public health issue, and young adults are an important demographic to target with food safety education. Our objective was to assess the food safety knowledge of undergraduate students at a Canadian university, to identify potential areas for such education. METHODS In February 2015, we conducted an online survey of 485 undergraduate students at ...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Division of Enteric Bacterial Infections, Center for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, #5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea. Tel: +82-2-380-1462, Fax: +82-2-352-4767, E-mail: [email protected] Salmonella is one of the major contagious enteric pathogens regularly implicated in cases of food-borne disease in Korea...