Our question answering system was built with a number of priorities in mind. First, we wanted to experiment with natural language processing (NLP) technologies such as shallow parsing, named entity tagging, and coreference chaining. We felt that the small number of terms in the questions coupled with the short length of the answers would make NLP technologies clearly beneficial, unlike previous...

2 Principal contact: This year our primary goal was to improve on the performance of our TREC-8 system. In addition to improving the system directly, we worked on a number of tools to aid our development. We continued our work on a tool for automatic scoring of system responses, a “judge” program. We designed a tool for doing regression testing of question answering systems. W...

Ruptured intracranial aneurysms, as the leading cause of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), represents an emergency with high morbi-mortality. The comprehension underlying pathology that involves inflammatory and immune responses, through neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), could help to predict complications such delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) or rebleeding functional outcome. Syst...

There is one concept in medicine which is prominent, the symptom. The omnipresence of the symptom seems, however, not to be reflected by an equally prominent curiosity aimed at investigating this concept as a phenomenon. In classic, traditional or conventional medical diagnostics and treatment, the lack of distinction with respect to the symptom represents a minor problem. Faced with enigmatic ...

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

Background: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) causes long-term functional dependence and death. Early prediction of outcomes in aSAH patients with appropriate intervention strategies could lower the risk poor prognosis. Therefore, we aimed to develop pre- post-operative dynamic visualization nomograms predict 1-year undergoing coil embolization. Methods: Data were obtained from 400 endo...

Introduction: Patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) frequently require monitoring, however planned ventilatory support may not be necessary in the post-operative period. In resource constraints scenarios, reserving an intensive care unit (ICU) bed and ventilator lead to problems like delay surgery definite care. With this study, we aim identify factors that influence need for ...

Background: The efficacy of decompressive craniectomy (DC) for patients with intracranial hypertension secondary to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH) remains unclear. Methods: We identified aSAH who underwent DC following microsurgical aneurysm repair from a prospectively maintained cerebrovascular registry and compared their outcomes propensity-matched cohort did not. Results: A total...

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place - life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education - learning skills for traditional academia and to foster ha...

SYSTEM R is a variant of the original STRIPS by Fikes and Nilsson (1971) (called forwardchaining, recursive STRIPS in Nilsson [1998]). Briefly speaking, given a conjunction of simple goals, it selects one of them to work on. If there is an action that is executable and will make this simple goal true once executed, then it does this action and then tries to achieve the other simple goals in the...