This paper describes OTTHO (On the Tip of my THOught), a system designed for solving a language game, called Guillotine. The rule of the game is simple: the player observes five words, generally unrelated to each other, and in one minute she has to provide a sixth word, semantically connected to the others. The system performs retrieval from several knowledge sources, such as a dictionary, a se...

Vitrectomy is an ophthalmic microsurgical procedure that removes part or all of the vitreous humor from the eye. The procedure uses a vitreous cutter consisting of a narrow shaft with a small orifice at the end through which the humor is aspirated by an applied suction. An internal guillotine oscillates back and forth across the orifice to alter the local shear response of the humor. In this wo...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of novel vitreous cutter blades compared with the regular guillotine by means of particle image velocimetry. Tested blades included a regular blade (RB) and newer designs where a circular (hole blade [HB]) or a slit aperture (slit blade [SB]) had been opened proximal to the cutting edge. METHODS Twenty-three-gauge probes were immersed in BSS or egg albumen, and ...

The paper presents a tree search algorithm for the three-dimensional container loading problem (3D-CLP). The 3D-CLP is the problem of loading a subset of a given set of rectangular boxes into a rectangular container so that the packed volume is maximized. The method has two variants: the packing variant guarantees full support from below for all packed boxes, while this constraint is not taken ...

operations are now distinguished, viz., tonsillotomy, in which only a slice of the enlarged tonsil is removed, and tonsillectomy, in which the whole tonsil is removed with its capsule intact. The former operation is carried out with a guillotine, the latter by dissection. The merits or demerits of the rival operations I do not propose to discuss. To those interested in the question, both sides ...

During the material removal stage in stone rough processing, milling type has been widely explored, which, however, may cause time and consumption, as well substantial stress for environment. To improve rate waste reuse processing three-dimensional products with a special shape, this paper, circular saw disc cutting is explored to cut convex polyhedron out of blank box, which approaches target ...

We examine how investors’ tolerance for failure impacts the types of projects they are willing to fund. We show that actions that reduce short term accountability and thus encourage agents to experiment more simultaneously reduce the level of experimentation financial backers are willing to fund. Failure tolerance has an equilibrium price that increases in the level of experimentation. More exp...