Mukherjee dedicates his book to “Robert Sandler” and to all those who fought and continue to fight against cancer. In 1947, two year old Robert was the first leukemic patient to be tested with Farber’s antifolates. Robert even responded to aminopterin, though his cancer relapsed. The journey till the antifolates was not an easy one and it took decades after decades to traverse the path from the...

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Objective: The case study assessed the affects of massage therapy on QOL through decreasing pain and increasing proprioception, strength, and active range of motion (AROM) in a client with facioscapuloumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHMD). The primary outcome of improving QOL in persons with MD is to enhance functional activities of daily living (ADL) by decreasing pain and increasing strength and ...

Stereo matching is a kernel problem in stereo vision systems. Stereo algorithms can be roughly classified into local and global approaches. Local algorithms use Winner-Take-All strategy, simply taking disparity level that minimizes the aggregation costs. In this paper we present a local stereo matching algorithm with an adaptive cost aggregation strategy based on a generalized bilateral filter ...

The input data to grammar learning algorithms often consist of overt forms that do not contain full structural descriptions. This lack of informationmay contribute to the failure of learning. Past work on Optimality Theory introduced Robust Interpretive Parsing (RIP) as a partial solution to this problem.We generalize RIP and suggest replacing the winner candidate with a weighted mean violation...

The runtime of winner determination for each round of a sequential bundle-bid auction (= SBB auction) has recently been shown to be linear in the number of submitted bids, which makes SBB auctions appealing for solving cooperative task-assignment problems. In this paper, we introduce the Shrewd (= SHrewd Resource Efficient Winner Determination) algorithm, whose runtime is linear in the number o...