In the face of unprecedented global biodiversity loss, conservation planning must balance between refining and deepening knowledge versus acting on current information to preserve species and communities. Phylogenetic diversity (PD), a biodiversity measure that takes into account the evolutionary relationships between species, is arguably a more meaningful measure of biodiversity than species d...

Accurate placement of intranasal incisions to achieve external alar symmetry is difficult. A detailed anatomical knowledge of intranasal anatomy is required to allow an appropriate incision to be made within the nasal vestibule. By marking the level of the intracartilaginous incision on the external surface using a pair of alice forceps, the marking is subsequently transferred onto the vestibul...

In this paper, we present an adaptation-guided similarity metric based on the estimate of the number of actions between states, called ADG (Action Distance-Guided). It is determined by using a heuristic calculation extracted from the heuristic search planning, called FF, which was the fastest planner in the AIPS’2000 competition. This heuristic provides an accurate estimate of the distance betw...

This experiment addressed issues in impression management. First, this study investigated whether type of impression intended (accurate or fabricated) and level of self-monitoring (high or low) affect the amount of information about a target person that individuals would acquire, at some cost to themselves, prior to interacting with that person. As predicted, high self-monitors planning a fabri...

In this article we give a survey of the current practice and state-of-theart of recommender services in scientific digital libraries. With the notable exception of amazon.com and CiteSeer which do not qualify as proper scientific libraries our survey revealed that in scientific libraries recommender services are still not in wide use – despite the considerable benefits they offer for students a...

Conventional pre-operative planning for Hemi-arthroplasty is performed with caliper, protractor, transparent templates and x-ray sheets. This technique is time consuming with many errors. Computer-aided pre-operative planning systems can assist surgeons in selecting correct sized implantable acetabulam and accurate planning of an operation. This paper describes the pre-operative planning by dig...

Scientific digital library systems are a very promising application area for value-added expert advice services. Such systems could significantly reduce the search and evaluation costs of information products for students and scientists. This holds for pure digital libraries as well as for traditional scientific libraries with online public access catalogs (OPAC). In this contribution we first ...

An important requirement in radiation therapy is a fast and accurate treatment planning system. This system, using computed tomography (CT) data, direction, and characteristics of the beam, calculates the dose at all points of the patient's volume. The two main factors in treatment planning system are accuracy and speed. According to these factors, various generations of treatment planning syst...