Matchmaking between offers and requests is an essential mechanism in electronic market places. Description Logics have been proposed as a appropriate framework for representing offers and requests and standard methods from description logics reasoning have been proposed for computing matches. We argue that classical reasoning is not well suited for realistic scenarios as it does not allow to co...

We introduce a feature structure, corresponding to a timespan tree based on ‘A Generative Theory of Tonal Music’ (GTTM) for a music piece, and represent the reduction of the tree by the subsumption among these feature structures. As the collection of them forms a lattice, we can define the join and meet operations. We show a melodic morphing algorithm based on these simple operations.

spinal epidural lipomatosis is a rare condition which is described as the accumulation of fat in the extradural territory and often causes dural impingement. spinal epidural lipomatosis has been implicated in causing a variety of neurologic impairments ranging from back pain, radiculopathy, claudication, myelopathy or even cauda equina syndrome. we report a 46-year-old female with obesity and a...

background: there is a great deal of descriptive studies on obesity in iran, mostly assessed the prevalence and its relation­ship with various risk factors and chronic diseases. in order to obtain/give a better insight into the epidemiology of obesity in iran in recent years and assess its heterogeneity around the country, we reviewed systematically all available studies and ana­lyzed their fin...

overweight or obese with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/m or more. Obesity is a major cause of morbidity; for example, in the United States in 2000 it was responsible for approximately 400 000 deaths and accounted for about 7% of health care expenditures. Obesity, particularly abdominal obesity, is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and...

abstract introduction: liposuction is a surgical procedure effective in reducing body fat, with growing application in conjunction with diet and exercise therapy in the treatment of obesity. in view of the positive effect of weight reduction on cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors, such as body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist-to-hip ratio (whr), systolic and diastolic pre...

Obesity is receiving increasing attention as a global human health problem. Some studies have indicated that sleep duration may an intervention effect on the occurrence and development of obesity lifestyle. The secretion several adipocytokines in people with insufficient tends to be disrupted, which can induce even other chronic diseases. This paper presents review current domestic internationa...

10,000 words on a single picture, and a similar Japanese proverb devalues this to only 100 words. In most languages the current consensus seems to be that a picture is worth 1000 words. Whatever the true worth in words a good picture is capable of conveying (sometimes quite complex) meaning clearly and without the need for language. Show a picture of an elephant to speakers of two different lan...