EEG visual analysis has proved useful in aiding AD diagnosis, being indicated in some clinical protocols. However, such analysis is subject to the inherent imprecision of equipment, patient movements, electric registers, and individual variability of physician visual analysis. Objectives: To employ the Paraconsistent Artifi cial Neural Network to ascertain how to determine the degree of certain...

Leg 209 was devoted to drilling mantle peridotites and associated gabbroic rocks along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from 14° to 16°N. This area was identified at the 1996 Workshop on Oceanic Lithosphere and Scientific Drilling into the 21st Century (OL Workshop) as the ideal region for drilling of a strike line of short holes to sample the upper mantle in a magma-starved portion of a slow-spreading r...

Requirements play an important role in software systems developments. The impact of errors in requirements is costly, especially for safety and critical systems. Two kinds of properties are necessary in a formal requirements speci cation, applicationindependent properties and application properties. Application-independent properties are simple properties derived from the underlying formal requ...

Theory suggests the financial decisions of durable goods makers can impose externalities on their consumers. Namely, the consumption stream that durable goods provide frequently depends on services provided by the manufacturer itself (e.g., warranties, spare parts availability, maintenance and upgrades). Bankruptcy of a manufacturer, or even the possibility thereof, threatens this service provi...

Preliminary Measurements of the Time Dependence of B 0 d ? B 0 d Mixing with Kaon and Charge Dipole Tags The SLD Collaboration ? Abstract We report two preliminary measurements of the time dependence of B 0 d ? B 0 d mixing using novel techniques with a sample of 150,000 hadronic Z 0 decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC. B decay vertices are reconstructed inclusively with a topolog...

According to several well-designed epidemiological studies, approximately 20% of children and adolescents experience signs and symptoms of mental illness at any given time (Costello et a/, 1996). In a more recent investigation of a representative sample of 1420 children in the United States aged between nine and thirteen, Costello, Mustillo, Erkanli, Keeler and Angold (2003) followed these youn...

"Megaprogramming" refers to the practice of building and evolving computer software component by component Megaprogramming builds on the processes and technologies of software reuse, software engineering environments, software architecture engineering, and application generation in order to provide a component-oriented product-line approach to software development In the product line approach, ...

The zeta-dimension of a set A of positive integers is Dimζ(A) = inf{s | ζA(s) < ∞},

We explore the possibility of a logic where a conclusion substantially improves over its premise(s): Specifically, we intend to rule out inference steps such that the premise conveys more information, in a simpler form, than the conclusion does. In fact, most reasoning formalisms, among them classical logic, come with means for generating disjunctive or conditional information in a fairly arbit...

The aim of the project was to evaluate the clinical value of a computer analysis of cytological specimen images obtained from urine and bladder washing samples. Three sample types (voided urine, catheterized urine and bladder washing) from 59 patients with primary or recurrent tumor were analyzed. All patients underwent cystoscopy and biopsy or resection. The histological results were compared ...