This keynote illustrates an innovative approach to the conceptual modeling of a web site: instead of considering a site as an (interactive) information container we can interpret it as a device capable of generating a dialogue with the user. Activating the selected options represents the user “turns” of the dialogue; the webs “turns” are represented by the reply to the user selection. Theoretic...

it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of the first edition of the journal of craniomaxillofacial research and i would therefore like to take this opportunity to point out a brief history of the field ofmaxillofacial surgery and also the craniomaxillofacial research center in iran. the discipline of oral and maxillofacial surgery was initially formed and taught under the name of or...

Looking back on an excellent year for the Journal of BioPsychoSocial Medicine, with numerous exciting papers addressing topics right at core of the Journal’s interest and often tackling issues at the forefront of international research trends, we first and foremost like to congratulate the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine on the performance of its official Journal in 2014! Given the v...

Present limits of speech recognition and understandi¢,g in the context of free spoken language (alttumgh with a limited vocabulary) have perverse effects on the flow of the dialogue with a system. Typically a non robtt~'t dialogue manager will fail to face with these limits and conversations will often be a failure. This paper presents some possibilities of a structural approach for handling co...

background: the aim of this study was to present epidemiological aspects of malignant tumor of head and neck in southeast of iran, with a view toward analyzing the age, gender, site distribution and histological types.  methods: all cases with malignant tumor of the head and neck region from 1999 to 2009 were retrieved from the records of cancer registry center of kerman university of medical s...

The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper provides commentaries on landmark papers from the decade that journal. topics discussed include reasoning with cases, argumentation, normative reasoning, dialogue, representing legal knowledge neural networks.

Introduction Some anatomical conditions can promote plaque retention, making difficult its removal and facilitating incidence of periodontal lesions [1]. Therefore, the tooth anatomy can play an important role in the periodontal disease etiology, acting as a predisposing factor [2]. Several anatomical root characteristics have been studied and related to the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment o...

Food allergy is understood as all the adverse reactions to food products triggered by the immunological mechanism. The immunological reactions include the mediated IgE mechanisms and non-Ig-E mechanisms. It is estimated that the frequency of food allergies in general population is of 3.5-4% and usually come out in patients showing also other atopic disorders. The gastro-intestinal barrier is ma...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

In this paper we describe how a computer dictation system can answer certain questions from a physician. Using speech recognition, dictation systems can automatically generate medical reports. Our dictation system, DictaMed, models the medical entities using an object oriented representation. These entities are created along with the dictation when they are mentioned by the physician. The dicta...