We describe an extensive and versatile lexical resource for Latvian, an under-resourced Indo-European language, which we call Tezaurs (Latvian for ‘thesaurus’). It comprises a large explanatory dictionary of more than 250,000 entries that are derived from more than 280 external sources. The dictionary is enriched with phonetic, morphological, semantic and other annotations, as well as augmented...

We present a hybrid genetic meta-algorithm that while applying a standard näıve genetic algorithm attempts to concurrently evolve a presentation of the genetic information that makes simple single-point crossovers increasingly effective. The idea is to attach positional information to genes and evolve them also by crossover and mutation, resulting in a presentation in which successful schema ha...

Background Approximately 90 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with little or no access to cardiac surgery. Initiation of a surgical program results in a large influx of patients, of whom only a small proportion can be selected for surgical intervention. In addition, at times program development goals may conflict with patient care goals. When surgery cannot be provided to all...

We provide a short introduction to the devising of special type methods for numerically approximating solution Hamiltonian partial differential equations. These use Galerkin space-discretizations which result in system ODEs displaying discrete version structure original system. The resulting is then discretized by symplectic time-marching method. This combination results high-order accurate, fu...

Drugs are chemical substances, which can, on consumption and under certain conditions, be toxic and cause Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in patients. This paper puts forth the proposition of generating a systemic alert to a clinician, at the time of placing a medication order for a patient, when the number of ADRs associated with the selected medication is significantly different from the number...

BACKGROUND Snakebite in Iran has been a health concern. However, management of snakebite is not standardized and varies from center to center. This study is aimed at devising an evidence-based comprehensive protocol for snakebite management in Iran, to reduce unnecessary variations in practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS A narrative search in electronic databases was performed. Fifty peer-reviewed...

We study the polyhedral convex hull of a mixed-integer set S defined by a collection of multilinear equations of the form yI = ∏ i∈I xi over the 0−1-cube. Such sets appear frequently in the factorable reformulation of mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems. In particular, the set S represents the feasible region of a linearized unconstrained binary polynomial optimization problem. We def...

SBVR is becoming more and more popular as the metamodel for defining vocabulary based business rules. In an extended form SBVR can be used to declare a whole spectrum of business rules including control-flow and organizational rules. Enforcing the rules of the business in information systems is however not straightforward. SBVR leaves open the gap between defining business rules and actually en...

ions for devising compact controllers for MDPs

If we are keen to boost the process of language learning, we need to study every aspect and component of our course. To this end, we carry out an investigation in which every detail of the course is put under microscope. Assessment of a course is an attempt in which different type of information is gathered systematically in order to study the working of a language instruction program. Certainl...