Physicians and medical decision-support applications, such as for diagnosis, therapy, monitoring, quality assessment, and clinical research, reason about patients in terms of abstract, clinically meaningful concepts, typically over significant time periods. Clinical databases, however, store only raw, time-stamped data. Thus, there is a need to bridge this gap. We introduce the Temporal Abstrac...

This note discusses the proposed plan for research on imaging and calibration algorithm development related to EVLA/ALMA. Attempt here is to describe briefly a work plan to address two problems which will need to be addressed in a few years from now, which also look tractable and towards which some work has already been done. In the sections below, the problems of continuum imaging with a bandw...

In an interferometer with a digital correlator, sensitivity will be reduced by receiver and IF bandpass slopes. Numerical calculations have been carried out to estimate these losses for developing a flatness specification for the ALMA receivers and IF system. For the 3-level digitizer studied here a 2-dB slope across the band gives an efficiency reduction of about 4 % in the frequency channels ...

In 1921, Richard Bruynoghe and his student Joséph Maisin published on the first use of bacteriophages in a phage therapy context. At that time, Bruynoghe (a medical doctor) was affiliated as a professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium) for just over a decade, within the Bacteriological Institute which he founded and led. After a distinguished career (he was acting mayor of the city of Leuven-Belgium ...

While current virtual characters may look photorealistic they often lack behavioral complexity. Emotion may be the key ingredient to create behavioral variety, social adaptivity and thus believability. While various models of emotion have been suggested, the concrete parametrization must often be designed by the implementer. We propose to enhance an implemented affect simulator called ALMA (A L...

We carried out an ALMA survey of 15 confirmed or candidate low-mass (<0.2 M ) members of the TW Hya Association (TWA) with the goal of detecting molecular gas in the form of CO emission, as well as of providing constraints on continuum emission due to cold dust. Our targets have spectral types of M4-L0 and hence represent the extreme low end of the TWA’s mass function. Our ALMA survey has yield...

In the course of its deliberations, the OTC noted that the NRAO R&D program has been reduced virtually to zero. ALMA development had become the prime new technical development for the observatory, but the development phase of ALMA is now over. It is particularly important, for the continuing health of the observatory and in order to maintain a modest degree of technical leadership, that at leas...