abstract background: the aim of this study was to compare the effects of the second- and third-generation oral contraceptives on women’s reproductive sexual function. materials and methods: this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted on 82 married women of reproductive age in tehran. samples were randomized into the groups receiving second- and third-generatio...

We present a new system, Genesis, that processes sets ofhuman patches to automatically infer code transforms andsearch spaces for automatic patch generation. We present re-sults that characterize the effectiveness of the Genesis infer-ence algorithms and the resulting complete Genesis patchgeneration system working with real-world patches and er-rors collected from top 1...

This paper addresses the system design and integration challenges involved in meeting the requirements for coordinated deployment of multiple re-configurable Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). It will present and discuss an open standards based software architectural approach that demonstrably addresses – and simplifies these new and evolving issues. UAS developers are continuously challenged to ...

This study consists of four experimental idea generation meetings, which explore whether functions of sketching in design activity are also valid for idea generation meetings. The relevant functions of sketching found in theory are: 1) supporting a re-interpretive cycle in the individual thinking process, 2) supporting re-interpretation of each other’s ideas in group activity, and 3) enhancing ...

This paper addresses the issue of winning back disadopters of an earlier generation of technology when a new technology generation appears on the market. Integrating research on innovation management, attitude strength and change, and consumer win-back, we propose a re-adoption model to predict disadopters’ intentions to come back. Data were collected from 274 disadopters of earlier mobile inte...

Generating referring expressions has received considerable attention in Natural Language Generation. In recent years we start seeing deployments of referring expression generators moving away from limited domains with custom-made ontologies. In this work, we explore the feasibility of using large scale noisy ontologies (folksonomies) for open domain referring expression generation, an important...

The algorithmic generation of textual descriptions of image sequences requires conceptual knowledge. In our case, a stationary camera recorded image sequences of road traffic scenes. The necessary conceptual knowledge has been provided in the form of a so-called Situation Graph Tree (SGT). Other endeavors such as the generation of a synthetic image sequence from a textual description or the tra...

A hierarchic structure of syn re chains has been proposed as the neural substrate for compositionality; individual chains represent aspects of a complex object, and the dynamic binding of several chains integrates the entire object. In this study we demonstrate that such a structure is capable of modelling compositionality in a generic fashion, i.e. not just for reactive computations such as pe...

Economists know how to calculate optimal prices for electricity transmission. These are rarely applied in practice. This paper develops a thirteen node model, based on the transmission system in England and Wales, incorporating losses and transmission constraints. It is solved with optimal prices, and with uniform prices for demand and for generation, but re-dispatching to take account of trans...

A number of attitudinal expressions are identified and analyzed using dependency based syntactic analysis. A claim is made that attitudinal loading of lexical items is dynamic rather than lexical and that attitudinal loading of individual lexical items is acquired through their use in attitudinally loaded structures.