We determine three independent Population II distance moduli to the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy, using wide-field, ground-based $VI$ imaging acquired with Magellan-Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. After subtracting foreground stars Gaia EDR3 proper motions, we measure an $I$-band tip of red giant branch (TRGB) magnitude $I_0^\mathrm{TRGB} = 16.753 \pm 0.03_\mathrm{stat} 0....

BACKGROUND In patients with arterial hypertension, increased blood pressure (BP) variability contributes to end organ damage independently from mean levels of arterial BP. Increased BP variability has been linked to alterations in autonomic function including sympathetic overdrive. We hypothesized that catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation (RDN) confers beneficial effects on BP variabili...

Our question answering system was built with a number of priorities in mind. First, we wanted to experiment with natural language processing (NLP) technologies such as shallow parsing, named entity tagging, and coreference chaining. We felt that the small number of terms in the questions coupled with the short length of the answers would make NLP technologies clearly beneficial, unlike previous...

2 Principal contact: This year our primary goal was to improve on the performance of our TREC-8 system. In addition to improving the system directly, we worked on a number of tools to aid our development. We continued our work on a tool for automatic scoring of system responses, a “judge” program. We designed a tool for doing regression testing of question answering systems. W...

In this paper we summarize the current state of the development of SYS/3 (SYStematic SYStem Development SYStem), the main features of the system and further research. SYS/3 assists in developing software systems according to a pre-stated standard and assures proper quality of software during its entire life-cycle. A software is considered a set of system connguration items called documents. SYS...

OBJECTIVE Non-invasive diagnosis of rejection is a major objective in the management of heart transplant recipients. The ability of strain rate (SR) imaging on echocardiograms to detect rejection in heart transplant recipients was investigated. METHODS A total of 396 endomyocardial biopsies, right-heart catheterisation and echocardiograms were performed in 35 heart transplant recipients. Mean...

T h is paper introduces a human centered expert sys tem for des ign and improvement of s trategic planning in a manufacturer of cons truction products . The development process of the expert sys tem is facilitated through knowledge base, learning module, inference engine, description tools and usability tes ting and inspection. To achieve the above objective, all indigenous and exogenous factor...

C. elegans SYS-1 has key functional characteristics of a canonical beta-catenin, but no significant sequence similarity. Here, we report the SYS-1 crystal structure, both on its own and in a complex with POP-1, the C. elegans TCF homolog. The two structures possess signature features of canonical beta-catenin and the beta-catenin/TCF complex that could not be predicted by sequence. Most importa...

Wnt/MAPK signaling is a common variant of Wnt signaling in C. elegans and has been implicated in vertebrates. The sys-1 gene works with Wnt/MAPK signaling to control cell fates during C. elegans development. We report that the SYS-1 amino acid sequence is novel but that SYS-1 functions as beta-catenin: SYS-1 rescues a bar-1/beta-catenin null mutant, binds the POP-1/TCF beta-catenin binding doma...