Transl Androl Urol 2014;3(4):329 www.amepc.org/tau It is with great pleasure that we introduce our special edition on the contemporary pediatric urology issues facing our patients. We have divided this edition into four separate sections: hypospadias, cryptorchidism, varicocele and pediatric potpurri. Each section contains the latest summaries on the contemporary controversies in pediatric urol...

Topological value iteration (TVI) is an effective algorithm for solving Markov decision processes (MDPs) optimally, which 1) divides an MDP into strongly-connected components, and 2) solves these components sequentially. Yet, TVI’s usefulness tends to degrade if an MDP has large components, because the cost of the division process isn’t offset by gains during solution. This paper presents a new...

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, ON, Canada; National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Oxford University ...

This paper advocated the use of ontology-supported website models to provide a semantic level solution for an information agent so that it can provide fast, precise, and stable query results. Based on the technique, a focused crawler, namely, OntoCrawler, was developed, which can benefit both user requests and domain semantics. Equipped with this technique, we have developed an ontology-support...