Before discussing the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of this disease, clarification of some of the pertinent terminological definitions may be in order. Hypertrophic emphysema is the most commonly used designation of this disease. Also, it is known under the following names: genuine emphysema, idiopathic emphysema, diffuse vesicular emphysema, obstructive emphysema, dystrophlc emphysema, pul...

Our question answering system was built with a number of priorities in mind. First, we wanted to experiment with natural language processing (NLP) technologies such as shallow parsing, named entity tagging, and coreference chaining. We felt that the small number of terms in the questions coupled with the short length of the answers would make NLP technologies clearly beneficial, unlike previous...

2 Principal contact: This year our primary goal was to improve on the performance of our TREC-8 system. In addition to improving the system directly, we worked on a number of tools to aid our development. We continued our work on a tool for automatic scoring of system responses, a “judge” program. We designed a tool for doing regression testing of question answering systems. W...

In this work, we develop a novel run-to-run-based model predictive controller (R2R-based MPC) for a batch crystallization process with process drift and inherent variation in solubility and crystal growth rates. In order to achieve the production of crystals with desired product qualities, a conventional MPC system with nominal process model parameters is initially applied to a batch protein cr...

This article investigates how to adaptively predict the time-varying metrology delay that could realistically occur in the semiconductor manufacturing practice. Metrology delays pose a great challenge for the existing run-to-run (R2R) controllers, driving the process output significantly away from target if not adequately predicted. First, the expected asymptotic double exponentially weighted m...

When product quality characteristics are evaluated and assigned to exclusive categories, measurement errors (misclassification of products) always exist unless a perfect measurement system is used to identify the categories. In run-to-run (R2R) process control, a categorical controller has been developed for process adjustments with categorical variables. However, if process outputs are misclas...

Semiconductor manufacturing industry has elevated cost in productions. Improvement of production efficiency is always an important goal for manufacturers. Run-to-run control has been widely used in batch manufacturing processes to reduce variations. Threaded exponentially weighted moving average (threaded-EWMA) run-to-run control is an important and stable control scheme. In this paper, we stud...

There is one concept in medicine which is prominent, the symptom. The omnipresence of the symptom seems, however, not to be reflected by an equally prominent curiosity aimed at investigating this concept as a phenomenon. In classic, traditional or conventional medical diagnostics and treatment, the lack of distinction with respect to the symptom represents a minor problem. Faced with enigmatic ...

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

We present a generic platform, called IViHumans, for materializing a system of multiple intelligent agents into virtual humans. It is intended to be flexible and applicable to diverse realistic simulation environments. The platform is composed of two layers: the Graphical Layer, and the Artificial Intelligence Layer, that can run autonomously. The architecture of our platform was conceived in o...