With the development of internet, the audit work of IDS is becoming harder. The way of examining log file in text format cannot adapt to the serious situation. Natural Language Process (NLP) technology is a novel approach to solve this problem. In this paper, Functional Unification Grammar (FUG) in NLP was applied to intelligent query in IDS audit system, and XML schema was also employed in exp...

Learning about users’ preferences allows agents to make intelligent decisions on behalf of users. When we are eliciting preferences from a group of users, we can use the preferences of the users we have already processed to increase the efficiency of the elicitation process for the remaining users. However, current methods either require strong prior knowledge about the users’ preferences or ca...

This paper outlines the way in which a focus group approach was used to involve service users in the possible reconfiguration of follow-up services for breast cancer patients at a North London hospital. The focus group was used to identify the priority issues for users and the development of an objective questionnaire, to survey all current service users. Within the National Health Service (NHS...

The 19th annual TEX Users Group Meeting took place in Toruń , Poland, in August of this year. The following is the impression of the authors who tried to attend all the talks. Unfortunately a couple of the talks were not attended by either of the authors. Apologies to those authors. Daniel Taupin described his LATEX to RTF converter, ltx2rtf. His problem is that he wants to transfer LATEX docum...

Numerous bene®ts, including increases in ef®ciency, effectiveness, and participant satisfaction, have been noted in the literature when electronic meetings are used in place of traditional, oral meetings. However, several costs, or process losses, have also been observed, including an increase in ` ̄aming' characterized by insults or even obscenities. This paper describes how ̄aming may be corre...

Background. There is to our knowledge metabolic changes induced by combined oral contraceptives (COC) use in regularly active females. Objectives. Analyzing blood cortisol and other biochemical variables in active (COC) users and non-users. Methods. A total of 123 active female students (25 COC users and 98 non-users) volunteered to participate in the study.  The COC users declared 2-3 years ...