operations for its analysis. We show that the analysis induced by E is very imprecise. Hence, in Section 5 we refine the domain E into the more precise domain ER for escape analysis. In Section 6, we discuss our prototype implementation and experimental results. Section 7 concludes the paper by highlighting the differences between previous proposals and our own approach. Section 8 contains the ...

Smartphone apps are being developed as a complement to smoking cessation treatment. The current study aimed to analyze the content of available apps in Portuguese in two operational systems, Android and iOS. Fifty-one apps were found in iTunes and 600 in Google Play. Content evaluation included apps that focused on smoking cessation, with a total of 12 apps in iOS and 3 in Android. Each app was...

Mining sequential patterns is to discover sequential purchasing behaviors of most customers from a large amount of customer transactions. In this paper, a data mining language is presented. From the data mining language, users can specify the interested items and the criteria of the sequential patterns to be discovered. Also, an efficient data mining technique is proposed to extract the sequent...

Advances in sequencing technology have resulted in a rapidly increasing number of completed bacterial genome sequences (http://www.tigr.org/tdb/ mdb/mdbcomplete.html, http://igweb. integratedgenomics.com/GOLD/). The relatively small size and limited gene content of these bacterial genomes make them readily amenable to functional genomic analysis. DNA microarrays in particular are proving practi...

This paper presents a universal engineering model, which can be used to formulate both counterflow and crossflow cooling towers. By using fundamental laws of mass and energy balance, the effectiveness of heat exchange is approximated by a second order polynomial equation. Gauss-Newton and Levenberg-Marquardt methods are then used to determine the coefficients from manufactures data. Compared wi...

In his review of the Small Genome Meeting in 1997, Eugene Koonin remarked that we have quite a bit of ‘‘... ignorance about the simple cell (Escherichia coli) that has been the primary object of molecular biology for several decades.’’ This message was borne out again this year at the recent conference on Microbial Genomes II: Sequencing, Functional Characterization and Comparative Genomics (Th...

We address the problem of predicting SPARQL query performance. We use machine learning techniques to learn SPARQL query performance from previously executed queries. We show how to model SPARQL queries as feature vectors, and use k -nearest neighbors regression and Support Vector Machine with the nu-SVR kernel to accurately (R value of 0.98526) predict SPARQL query execution time. 1 Query Perfo...

Sir, The enterococci are among the three most common types of bacteria involved in nosocomial infections in the USA. Pheromone-inducible plasmid transfer is an important mechanism for dissemination of antibiotic resistance and virulence in these organisms. We would like to relate some signi®cant information that has recently become available, concerning the intercellular signals that trigger co...

Issues related to the representation of data asssociated with terms are considered with specific reference to two knowledge representation formalisms, frames and semantic networks. Introduction Techniques developed by researchers and professional software engineers for building knowledge-based expert systems, natural language processing systems, image understanding systems and planning systems ...

Whipple disease (WD) is a rare multisystemic infection with a protean clinical presentation. The central nervous system (CNS) is involved in 3 situations: CNS involvement in classic WD, CNS relapse in previously treated WD, and isolated CNS infection. We retrospectively analyzed clinical features, diagnostic workup, brain imaging, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) study, treatment, and follow-up data i...