This paper presents the Sixth Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE-6) challenge. This year a major innovation was introduced, as the traditional Main Task was replaced by a new task, similar to the RTE-5 Search Pilot, in which Textual Entailment is performed on a real corpus in the Update Summarization scenario. A subtask was also proposed, aimed at detecting novel information. To continue the e...

Systems-Based Practice (SBP) is the sixth competency defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Outcome Project. Specifically, SBP requires "Residents [to] demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value." This competenc...

It is well known that sparse matrix factorizations suffer fill. That is, some of the zero entries in a sparse matrix will become nonzero during factorization. To reduce factorization time and storage, it is important to arrange the computation so that the amount of fill is kept small. It is also well known that the amount of fill is often influenced greatly by how the rows and columns of the sp...

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known paradigm of declarative programming with roots in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Similar to other closely related problemsolving technologies, such as SAT/SMT, QBF, Planning and Scheduling, advancements in ASP solving are assessed in competition events. In this paper, we report about the design and results of the Sixth ASP Competition...

" Human beings are all interlocked with plants, animals, soils and waters, in one humming community of cooperation and competition: one biota. They are related and bound into a seemless fabric " (Aldo Leopold, 1949).

Rapid advances in neuroscience have sparked numerous efforts to study the neural correlate of consciousness. Prominent subjects include higher sensory area, distributed assemblies bound by synchronization of neuronal activity and neurons in specific cortical laminae. In contrast, it has been suggested that the quality of sensory awareness is determined by systematic change of afferent signals r...

employed, confining himself to those which he had personally found best and adding brief accounts of other accepted methods. Unusually full reports of interesting cases were always a feature of the book, whilst the needs of candidates for the higher examinations were catered for in detailed descriptions of amputations, ligation of arteries and other operations which figure more prominently in t...

It was decided to hold the next Northwest meeting of the Section at the University of Washington on a date to be determined later. The visiting members and their families were generously entertained by the University of Oregon members on the day of the meeting and on the day following. Titles and abstracts of papers read at the meeting follow. The papers of Bell, Cajori, Cramlet, and Stager wer...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of botulinum toxin-a as an alternate to surgery in acute complete sixth nerve palsy and to shorten the recovery period. methods: thirty patients with acute complete sixth nerve palsy received 1-10 units of botulinum toxin-a (dysport) injection in the medial rectus muscle within one month from the onset of palsy. toxin was injected directly into the muscle belly u...

Background and Objective: Lowering serum glucose and lipid levels in diabetic patients by using natural materials is of great importance. In this study, the effect of oral consumption of Fumaria Parviflora Lamwas was assessed on serum glucose and lipid levels in streptozocin diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, 32 male Wistar rats were divided into four groups of co...