the objective of this study was to determine the chronology of changes in blood pressure in renalhypertension induced by solid plexiglass clips in rats. saw blades with the thickness of 0.21-0.22 mm wereused to make clips sized 4 × 2 × 2 mm from a piece of 2-mm thick plexiglass. rats were subjected to shamoperation or left renal arterial clipping, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later blood pressure, a...

A hierarchical representation of objects is dynamically generated from the input of a virtual vision system. It is used to analyze a sequence of actions and extract behavior rules that can be utilized by the inference machine CLIPS. The vision system is assumed to provide simplified positional and shape information about visible 3D silhouettes in a frame per frame basis. A virtual agent, attemp...

The objective of this study was to determine the chronology of changes in blood pressure in renalhypertension induced by solid plexiglass clips in rats. Saw blades with the thickness of 0.21-0.22 mm wereused to make clips sized 4 × 2 × 2 mm from a piece of 2-mm thick plexiglass. Rats were subjected to shamoperation or left renal arterial clipping, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later blood pressure, a...

This document present work we have done for the CLEF 2004 participation. We promote the use of surface-syntactic parsing to extract indexing terms. We also promote the Derivation From Randomness weighting. For the bilingual part, we have tested reinforcement query weighting using an association thesaurus.

In this paper we describe the methodology developed in the framework of a feasibility study for the derivation of a semantically annotated French lexicon from a monolingual Italian lexical resource. Firstly, an outline of the source lexicon is provided. Then, the two different and complementary strategies that have been experimented for pairing off the relevant monolingual Italian entries and t...

This paper describes teacher development issues arising in a school based collaborative case study, the Computers and Learning in Primary Schools (CLIPS) research project. This longitudinal project has been based in five schools in Melbourne, Australia since 1992. This paper includes relevant exhacts from the data of one of the case studies and discussion of some overall findings of the project...

Mesenteric closure following right colectomy remains controversial and, the advent of laparoscopic surgery, many surgeons do not routinely close mesentery after colorectal resection. Nevertheless, especially introduction operations such as with complete mesocolic excision and ileocolic resections extensive removal for Crohn’s disease, wide mesenteric defect resulting from dissections can certai...