OBJECTIVE The complement system plays a central role in the first line of defense against invading pathogens, and its activation involves the release of potent pro-inflammatory mediators such as anaphylatoxins C3a, C4a and C5a. The aim of this study was to determine whether differences existed in maternal plasma anaphylatoxin concentrations between patients with term and preterm parturition. ...

In the present computing world, most new-generation database applications demand intelligent interface to enhance efficient interactions between database and the users. The most accessible interfaces for databases must be intelligent and able to understand natural language expressions. In this paper mapping of natural language queries to SQL is discussed. We propose a general architecture for a...

The utilization of immersive distributed virtual environments for military training is readily apparent (Stytz 1996; Stytz, Soltz, & Wilson 1996). These virtual environments are capable of simulating thousands of real-world and synthetic components, all interacting in real time. The user must attempt to base decisions on relevant information within the environment. However, due to the dynacism ...

Intelligent reservoir characterization using seismic attributes and hydraulic flow units has a vital role in the description of oil and gas traps. The predicted model allows an accurate understanding of the reservoir quality, especially at the un-cored well location. This study was conducted in two major steps. In the first step, the survey compared different intelligent techniques to discover ...

This study developed an adaptive distributed tutoring system targeting on students' learning style and collaborative learning. The system is composed of intelligent agents which plays a definite role in making the system adaptive using the association rule mining and fuzzy C-means clustering. This agent oriented system is modeled using Tropos for a consistent development. The system is com...

A new concept is appearing in the field of Man-Machine interaction : the design of "intelligent" interfaces. The aims of this paper are threefold, first to show what an "intelligent" interface is and present a five step design process for such an interface specifically: (i) Man-Machine system analysis, (ii) operator, task and process modelling, (iii) specifying those assistance tools that form ...

In face-to-face conversation humans frequently use deictic gestures parallel to verbal descriptions for referent identification. Such a multimodal mode of communication is of great importance for intelligent interfaces, as it simplifies and speeds up reference to objects in a visualized application domain. Natural pointing behavior is very flexible, but also possibly ambiguous or vague, so that...

This paper deenes my depth area for the AI qualifying exam. In the next paragraphs I will give an intensional deenition. Following that will be a roughly-grouped list of papers which form a corresponding extensional deenition for the area. The goal of building an intelligent agent is almost synonymous with the goal of building an artiicial intelligence. This depth area scopes that to managable ...

Zagazig, Egypt ABSTRACT In the present computing world, most new-generation database applications need for intelligent interface to enhance efficient interactions between database and the users. Database query language SQL could be difficult to the non-expert users and learning these formal queries takes a lot of time. In this paper, we discussed mapping of natural language queries to SQL rathe...