This paper describes the Description Logics system C3L++ that is implemented on top of the object-oriented POET data base. The benefits of such an integration are the management of large size knowledge bases, an increased performance and data persistency. Moreover, it is planned to integrate the relational database MERLIN via an object-oriented access layer in C3L++ and test afterwards its perf...

An efficient algorithm for genomic selection of moderately sized populations based on single nucleotide polymorphism chip technology is described. A total of 995 Israeli Holstein bulls with genetic evaluations based on daughter records were genotyped for either the BovineSNP50 BeadChip or the BovineSNP50 v2 BeadChip. Milk, fat, protein, somatic cell score, female fertility, milk production pers...

portance to the student of tuberculosis. Scrofulosis is defined as comprising a complex of symptoms almost entirely confined to early life and distinguished by persistency, recurrence and multiplicity. Two forms are described (1) tuberculosis due to the tubercle bacillus, (2) non-tuberculosis or pyogenesis form caused by other bacteria. A third or mixed form may be added. All tuberculo-scrofulo...

In conventional object oriented programming languages, objects are transient, that is they are destroyed upon program termination. Storing objects using explicit file access methods may cause objects to lose their manipulation and access semantics since the objects with different declarations may have the same storage representation. In this work persistence is added to C++ in DOS environment t...

The activated transcription factor NF-κB shuttles between the cytoplasm and the nucleus resulting in the oscillation of nuclear NF-κB (NF-κBn). The oscillation pattern of NF-κBn is implicated in the regulation of gene expression profiles. Using computational models, we previously reported that spatial parameters, such as the diffusion coefficient, nuclear to cytoplasmic volume ratio, transport ...

Recurrent selection (RS) has been used in plant breeding to successively improve synthetic and other multiparental populations. Synthetics are generated from a limited number of parents [Formula: see text] but little is known about how [Formula: see text] affects genomic selection (GS) in RS, especially the persistency of prediction accuracy ([Formula: see text]) and genetic gain. Synthetics we...

abstract background: the emotional bond that a mother feels towards her infant is critical to their social, emotional, and cognitive development. this concept has a major influence on an infant’s future health, and growth, so the assessment of parental-fetal attachment and related factors is of great importance. this study aimed to examine the effect of psychological intervention on attachment ...

We extend the concept of generalized roof duality from pseudo-boolean functions to real-valued functions over multi-label variables. In particular, we prove that an analogue of the persistency property holds for energies of any order with any number of linearly ordered labels. Moreover, we show how the optimal submodular relaxation can be constructed in the first-order case.

Informed by field observations of how proposals are handled in an organisation and inspired by the theoretical framework of organisational learning, I argue in favour of, and present design implications for, a web-based tool that facilitates organisational creativity though asynchronicity, anonymity, and persistency. However, early user feedback indicates that reward mechanisms must be addresse...

BACKGROUND Violence is a major concern and is prevalent across several mental disorders. The use of substances has been associated with an exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms as well as with violence. Compared to other substances such as alcohol and cocaine, existing literature on the cannabis-violence relationship has been more limited, with most studies being conducted in the general populat...