The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring such patterns of information exchange that keep agents private knowledge confidential. In this paper we will introduce the concept of agents’ private and semi-private knowledge and we will explain the difference between t...

with the eight sassanians reliefs, naghsh-e rustam in marvdasht is a prominent complex safeguarding a complete collection of the sassanian period. seven of these reliefs have been repeatedly the subject of investigations thanks to their relatively better conditions. the fifth relief, however, has not yet been studied due to their damaged status. it depicts the full-face portrait of a sassanid k...

AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to identify the conditions that favour the relief of the burden of female caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia. BACKGROUND Respite services are a response to caregivers' needs for rest. Although they are wanted and needed services, caregivers do not always have access to or use them. The need for a caregiver-centred approach to relievi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the symptomatic relief of dysphagia after stenting in patients with carcinoma esophagus METHODS A prospective non randomized descriptive study was conducted at Surgical Unit 4, Civil Hospital Karachi, Pakistan over a period of 1 year, from August 2006 to July 2007. A total of 41 patients with biopsy proven carcinoma esophagus having irresectable disease on the basis of C...

In recent years, Online Social Media (OSM) has established itself as one of the most significant sources of situational information during any natural or man-made disaster. Real-time summarization of this rapidly posted huge volume of crowdsourced responses is a common requirement for emergency relief and preparedness when time is critical. Our semi-automatic method exploits a combination of Su...

nor constipation. He continued his usual diet, though in smaller quantities. A fortnight later, he suddenly found a little pus and some greenish yellow semi-solid matter of fsecal smell escaping from an opening in the swelling above. This' discharge gave him a little relief. Subsequently he observed that the continuous discharge above the scrotum was irritating the skin and preventing his work....

the study was carried out in the fields of department of agriculture, university of lorestan, iran(lat. 32°18´ n., long. 45°22´ e.). according to the data gathered in the nearest synoptic meteorological station, the studied region is classified under semi-arid climates. mean maximum and minimum daily temperatures have been recorded in july and january as 29.5 and 5.5°c, respectively. mean annua...

Most medical datasets are not balanced in their class labels. Furthermore, in some cases it has been noticed that the given class labels do not accurately represent characteristics of the data record. Most existing classification methods tend not to perform well on minority class examples when the dataset is extremely imbalanced. This is because they aim to optimize the overall accuracy without...