in a recent issue of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology (apjmt), the importance of empowering medical toxicology in the asia pacific region has been discussed. in the editorial by dr. afshari, it has been stated that national societies of medical toxicology are important infrastructure for the development of medical toxicology, and the asia pacific association of medical toxicology ...

Spirometry training courses are provided by health services and training organizations to enable widespread use of spirometry testing for patient care or for monitoring health. The primary outcome of spirometry training courses should be to enable participants to perform spirometry to international best practice, including testing of subjects, quality assurance and interpretation of results. Wh...

Neurules are a kind of hybrid rules integrating neurocomputing and production rules. Each neurule is represented as an adaline unit. Thus, the corresponding rule base consists of a number of autonomous adaline units (neurules). Due to this fact, a modular and natural rule base is constructed, in contrast to existing connectionist rule bases. In this paper, we present a method for generating neu...

We introduce a novel approach to sentiment classification. Our Reasoning Through Search (RTS) technique uses existing labeled data, query formation strategies, and a case base to estimate the sentiment of a text review. Unlike previous systems, when classifying a document from a domain that the system does not have explicit, in-domain training data, our classification system leverages domain re...

Previous researchers have discovered perplexing inconsistencies in how human subjects appear to utilize knowledge of category base rates when making category judgments. In particular, Medin and Edelson (1988) found an “inverse base rate effect” in which subjects tended to select a rare category when tested with a combination of conflicting cues, and Gluck and Bower (1988) reported apparent “bas...

Abstract To match national development goals and increase in the tax base, government must embed a taxation system economic social contexts. Since founding of People's Republic China, can be divided into three stages: one that is embedded danwei , enterprises, society. The corresponding include stimulating growth, promoting coordinated development, propelling state governance. As base China shi...

Previous studies suggest fundamental differences between the perceptual learning of speech and non-speech stimuli. One major difference is in the way variability in the training set affects learning and its generalization to untrained stimuli: training-set variability appears to facilitate speech learning, while slowing or altogether extinguishing non-speech auditory learning. We asked whether ...

A new inductive learning system, Lab (Learning for ABduction), is presented which acquires abductive rules from a set of training examples. The goal is to nd a small knowledge base which, when used ab-ductively, diagnoses the training examples correctly and generalizes well to unseen examples. This contrasts with past systems that inductively learn rules that are used deductively. Each training...

A new inductive learning system, Lab (Learning for ABduction), is presented which acquires abductive rules from a set of training examples. The goal is to nd a small knowledge base which, when used ab-ductively, diagnoses the training examples correctly and generalizes well to unseen examples. This contrasts with past systems that inductively learn rules that are used deductively. Each training...