alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a useful diagnostic marker for the detection of a great number of infantile diseases, especially for some forms of malignant tumors and liver disorders. Although there are several methods for quantitative determination of AFP, compared with these methods, the gold immunochromatographic assay (GICA)has the advantages of easy to handle, low costs, quick, no requirement ...

The work presented in this thesis concerns the development and evaluation of new methods for sampling and analysis of organic pollutants in the indoor and outdoor environment. In Paper I, the development of a new method was reported for the determination of the brominated fl ame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) in air using sampling with glass fi ber fi lter and polyurethane foam (PUF), ...

1. Objective Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the task of determining the right sense of a polysemous word in a given context. This study aims to enhance the performance of supervised-based word sense determination by focusing on feature selection and using bootstrapping techniques. Senses determination of a word is essentially based on the information extracted from the context in which this...