Minimalist Grammars (MG) are viewed as a resource consuming system where syntactic operations are triggered when a positive form of a feature matches with its negative form. But a problem arises when a feature lacks a positive/negative value. For the latter case, we introduce a default inference rule in order to account for the underspecification of the feature in a lexical entry.

This paper proposes a heuristic rule for detection of user-to-root (U2R) attacks against Solaris TM operating system. Relevant features for developing heuristic rules were manually mined using Solaris TM Basic Security Module audit data. The proposed rule was tested on both DARPA 1998 and 1999 intrusion detection datasets. Results show that all user-to-root attacks exploiting the suid program w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The prevalence of obesity in Indonesia has increasing. We have assessed the relationship between plasma acylated ghrelin hormone and self-reported appetite ratings (hunger and desire to eat) in obese and normal weight men. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN Thirty-two men participated in an experimental study, where acylated ghrelin and self-reported appetite ratings were comp...

BACKGROUND Leiden Score, is a very useful tool for predicting future development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), among undifferentiated arthritis (UA) patients. This score has been validated in various western studies but rarely among south east Asian patients. AIMS To validate the Leiden early arthritis prediction rule in an Indian cohort of patients for predicting rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy and utility of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). MATERIAL AND METHOD Prospective and blind study of 75 wrists in 42 consecutive patients with suspected CTS. Electrodiagnostic testing (EDT) was used as gold standard. We measure different ultrasonographic parameters and based on a fitted receiver operating characteristic curve,...

BACKGROUND Few patients who attend GP consultations frequently continue to do so long term. While transient frequent attendance may be readily explicable, persistent frequent attendance often is not. It increases GPs' workload while reducing work satisfaction. It is neither reasonable, nor efficient to target diagnostic assessment and intervention at transient frequent attenders. AIM To devel...

OBJECTIVE To derive a clinical prediction rule that uses bedside clinical variables to predict extubation failure (reintubation within 48 h) after a successful spontaneous breathing trial. METHODS This prospective observational cohort study was performed at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, which is a large tertiary-care university hospital. Among 673 consecutive patien...

Credit scoring is an important topic, and banks collect different data from their loan applicant to make an appropriate and correct decision. Rule bases are of more attention in credit decision making because of their ability to explicitly distinguish between good and bad applicants. The credit scoring datasets are usually imbalanced. This is mainly because the number of good applicants in a po...