This article reviews the etiology and symptomatology of xerostomia and approaches for treating it, including the use of acupuncture. Seven xerostomia patients who were treated using acupuncture and the subsequent results of that treatment are discussed. Actual outcomes exceeded the author's expectations with all patients reporting an increase in salivary flow and the ability to eat and speak an...

A recently-proposed machine learning approach to reference resolution — the twin-candidate approach — has been shown to be more promising than the traditional single-candidate approach. This paper presents a pronoun interpretation system that extends the twin-candidate framework by (1) equipping it with the ability to identify non-referential pronouns, (2) training different models for handling...

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving variant of Bloom-filters. The Bloom-filter has many applications such as hash-based IP-traceback systems and Web cache sharing. In some of those applications, equipping the Bloom-filter with the privacy-preserving mechanism is crucial for the deployment. In this paper, we propose a cryptographically secure privacy-preserving Bloom-filter protocol. ...

This article presents the results of designing a mechanism for grabbing, lifting and holding container with which it is supposed to equip robotic wheeled chassis an apple harvesting module in industrial garden. The technical solutions used agricultural engineering operations various types loads weighing from 300 kg were analyzed, their design features considered. As result analysis, based on cr...