Methods 20 Allergic Rhinitis (AR) participants underwent NAC to determine the concentration at which a Total Nasal Symptom Score (TNSS) of 10/12 OR a Peak Nasal Inspiratory Flow (PNIF) reduction of 50 % was achieved. 4-fold increases in allergen concentration were administered every 15 minutes until qualification criteria were met. The Qualifying Allergen Concentration (QAC) reached was used as...

This paper was based on the review of literature about the perceptions of the quality assurance mechanism and quality services in educational institutions in Pakistan. Higher Education Commission of Pakistan is strongly emphasizing on the revamping of quality education at all level. For serving this purpose “Quality Assurance Cells (QAC) has been established in public sector universities. This ...

In order to process non-factoid questions in NTCIR6 QAC, we introduced two types of approaches. First one has a monolithic architecture that retrieves answer passages related to a question using lexical chain. The other one has a type-by-type architecture and consists of four subsystems: i) the subsystem for definitional and other-type questions, ii) the subsystem for why-type questions, iii) t...

We describe an overview of Question Answering Challenge (QAC) 2 Subtask 3, a novel challenge for evaluating open-domain question answering technologies, at the NTCIR Workshop 4. In QAC2 Subtask 3, question answering systems are supposed to be used interactively to answer a series of related questions, whereas in the conventional setting, systems answer isolated questions one by one. Such an int...

We present a preparation method for self-assembled supra-molecular monolayers of unsubstituted organic semiconductors and pigments on a solid substrate, applicable under ambient conditions. The deposition is based on a solid-solid wetting phenomenon, whereas the subsequent layer growth proceeds according to standard models. Molecular adsorption results from direct contact of the compound in a n...

The sensitivity of deep neural networks to compressed images hinders their usage in many real applications, which means classification may fail just after taking a screenshot and saving it as file. In this paper, we argue that neglected disposable coding parameters stored files could be picked up reduce the images. Specifically, resort using one representative parameters, quantization steps, fa...

Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACS) are employed both as disinfectants for manual processing lines and surfaces in the food industry, and in human medicine area. QACS also cause cell death by protein denaturation . One of the QAC is cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) that appears to rapture the cell membrane. The primary site of action of CTAB has been suggested to be the lipid components...