We survey the evaluation methodology adopted in Information Extraction (IE), as defined in the MUC conferences and in later independent efforts applying machine learning to IE. We point out a number of problematic issues that may hamper the comparison between results obtained by different researchers. Some of them are common to other NLP tasks: e.g., the difficulty of exactly identifying the ef...

This study aimed to determine the aerosolization behavior of a nanodispersion of budesonide, prepared using microfluidic reactors. The size and morphology of budesonide nanoparticles were characterized by photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Processing/formulation parameters for formation of the nanoparticles were studied to determine their effects o...

BACKGROUND The shortage of surgeon is one of the serious problems in Japan. To solve the problem, various efforts have been undertaken to improve surgical education and training. However, appropriate teaching methods in the operating room have not been well established. The aim of this study is to assess the utility of a novel interactive educational (IE) system for surgical education on urolog...

objective: to consider incisional endometrioma (ie) as a differential diagnosis of abdominal disorders and to recommend different treatments as preventive measures. incisional endometrioma (ie), as a rare condition, usually develops in surgical scar of cesarean section or hysterectomy. materials and methods: we performed a retrospective review of 12 cases at department of surgery, shahrekord un...

for a simple connected graph $g$ with $n$-vertices having laplacian eigenvalues‎ ‎$mu_1$‎, ‎$mu_2$‎, ‎$dots$‎, ‎$mu_{n-1}$‎, ‎$mu_n=0$‎, ‎and signless laplacian eigenvalues $q_1‎, ‎q_2,dots‎, ‎q_n$‎, ‎the laplacian-energy-like invariant($lel$) and the incidence energy ($ie$) of a graph $g$ are respectively defined as $lel(g)=sum_{i=1}^{n-1}sqrt{mu_i}$ and $ie(g)=sum_{i=1}^{n}sqrt{q_i}$‎. ‎in th...