Bio-techniques such as genetic manipulation, marker-assisted selection, and identity test have largely facilitated the modern animal production practices. In the present study, we established a reliable and cost-effective molecular method of species identification for common farm animals. We first (re-)analyzed 179 mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene sequences of ten farm animal species to determine th...

A shortcoming identified in the dental education literature is the scarcity of patient assessment of the quality of communication between student clinicians and patients. This study, the second in a series, attempts to address this scarcity by testing the communication components deemed critical to patients identified in the first article. Two instruments were tested: the Patient Communication ...

2015 ACC/HRS/SCAI left atrial appendage occlusion device societal overview Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH, FACC, (Chair, Writing Committee Member) Hugh Calkins, MD, FACC, FHRS, (Vice-Chair, Writing Committee Member) Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI, (Vice-Chair, Writing Committee Member) Joseph P. Drozda Jr., MD, FACC, (Writing Committee Member) Phillip Gainsley (Writing Committee Mem...

The present paper presents the Weighted Ontology Approximation Heuristic (WOAH), a novel zero-shot approach to ontology estimation for conversational agents development environments. This methodology extracts verbs and nouns separately from data by distilling the dependencies obtained and applying similarity and sparsity metrics to generate an ontology estimation configurable in terms of the le...