The Programmed Investigation Unit (P.I.U.) of the Manchester Royal Infirmary is an inpatient department providing facilities for all tests used in medicine. There are two special features of the unit: the timing of the admission of patients to suit their convenience; and placing of the tests in a compatible rapid sequence, which is incorporated in a timetable agreed with the investigative depar...

So far, you have seen only how the NGWS runtime works, but| not the technical background of how it works and why it works I way it does. This section is all about the NGWS Virtual Object System (VOS).. The rules the NGWS runtime follow when declaring, using, and managing types are modeled in the Virtual Object System (VOS) The idea behind the VOS is to establish a framework that allow cross-lan...

There have been several challenges in summarization of Thai multiple documents since Thai language itself lacks of explicit word/phrase/sentence boundaries. This paper gives definition of Thai Elementary Discourse Unit (TEDU) and then presents our three-stage summarization process. Towards implementation of this process, we propose unit segmentation using TEDUs and their derivatives, unitgraph ...

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