Early prediction of premature pregnancy reduces neonatal death and helps in adoption of treatment well suited for the pre-term pregnancy state. There are scads of work done in the area of term and pre-term pregnancy analysis like artificial intelligence, regressive models, and higher order statistical models. This paper proposes a four-level decomposition of Electrohysterography (EHG) signals u...

This paper describes our system used in the Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Task 4 at the SemEval-2014. Our system consists of two components to address two of the subtasks respectively: a Conditional Random Field (CRF) based classifier for Aspect Term Extraction (ATE) and a linear classifier for Aspect Term Polarity Classification (ATP). For the ATE subtask, we implement a variety of lexicon, ...

This paper presents an interpretable neural system—termed Evolving Long-term Cognitive Network—for pattern classification. The proposed model was inspired by Fuzzy Maps, which are recurrent networks for modeling and simulation. network architecture is comprised of two blocks: a input layer output layer. Network that gets unfolded in the same way as other networks, thus producing sort abstract h...

Introduction Vertical transmission of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) depends primarily on breast-feeding; substitution of bottle-feeding has reduced the transmission rate from 20% in breast-fed children to 3% among bottle-fed. To determine the correlates of transmission for long breast-feeding (2 6 mo), short breast-feeding (< 6 mo), and bottlefeeding mothers, the antibody titers of...

INTRODUCTION Mesangial cells (MC) may be involved in the glomerular alterations induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the response of immortalized MC (IMC) to 30 minutes of hypoxia followed by reoxygenation periods of 30 minutes (H/R30) or 24 hours (H/R24). METHODS The intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca+2]i) was measured before (baseline) and after adding angio...

Hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) elicits neuronal cell injury and glial cell activation within the central nervous system (CNS). Neuroinflammation is a process that primarily results from the acute or chronic activation of glial cells. This overactive state of glial cells results in the increased release of nitric oxide (NO) and/or tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a process which can lead to...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The present studies examined the hypothesis that the distribution of cerebral injury after a focal ischemic insult is associated with the regional distribution of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity. METHODS Based on previous studies that certain anatomically well-defined areas are prone to become either core or penumbra after middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO), w...