introduction bacterial meningitis is a known infectious disease which occurs at early ages and should be promptly diagnosed and treated. bacterial and aseptic meningitis are hard to be distinguished. therefore, physicians should be highly informed and experienced in this area. the main aim of this study was to suggest a system for distinguishing between bacterial and aseptic meningitis, using f...

We have analyzed system rankings for person name search algorithms using a data set for which several versions of ground truth were developed by employing different means of resolving adjudicator conflicts. Thirteen algorithms were ranked by F-score, using bootstrap resampling for significance testing, on a dataset containing 70,000 romanized names from various cultures. We found some disagreem...

This paper presents a comparative evaluation among the systems that participated in the Spanish and English lexical sample tasks of SENSEVAL-2. The focus is on pairwise comparisons among systems to assess the degree to which they agree, and on measuring the difficulty of the test instances included in these tasks.

This thesis1 investigates various aspects of weak system models for agreement problems in fault-tolerant distributed computing. In Part I we provide an introduction to the context of this work, discuss related literature and describe the basic system assumptions. In Part II of this thesis, we introduce the Asynchronous Bounded-Cycle (ABC) model, which is entirely time-free. In contrast to exist...

Abstract On 1 June 2018, the Japanese cooperation agreement system was introduced, and its effectiveness has been examined through cases including Carlos Ghosn Case. Although it devised by emulating U.S. plea bargaining system, there are major differences. It potential to thoroughly change criminal system. However, portrayal of new in academic discourse is quite inaccurate. This article analyse...

We show how to use ‘uncertainty’ in place of the more traditional Brownian ‘randomness’ to model a short-term interest rate. The advantage of this model is principally that it is difficult to show statistically that it is wrong. Whether the model is useful for pricing fixed-income products is less clear. We discuss the pros and cons of the model, showing how to price and hedge various contracts...

this study was aimed at determining intra and inter-observer concordance rates in the gleason scoring of prostatic adenocarcinoma, before and after a web-based educational course. in this self-controlled study, 150 tissue samples of prostatic adenocarcinoma are re-examined to be scored according to the gleason scoring system. then all pathologists attend a free web-based course. afterwards, the...

In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and evalutation of a system for checking NP agreement in German texts. We use shallow parsing based on finite state automata in combination with constraint relaxation and a method for parse ranking based on optimality theory. The system’s grammar was developed and tested over a reference corpus of about 800,000 words to ensure robustness an...

Recent research highlights the importance of biased expectations and inattention for nonlinear pricing in dynamic environments. Findings are: (1) Three-part tariffs, such as cellular service contracts, exploit consumer overconfidence. (2) Surprise penalty fees may be used to further exploit biased beliefs or alternatively to price discriminate more efficiently whenever consumers are inattentive...