In this chapter, we present the design of Teacher (an acronym for TEchniques for the Automated Creation of HEuRistics), a system for learning and for generalizing heuristics used in problem solving. Our system learns knowledge-lean heuristics whose performance is measured statistically. The objective of the design process is to nd, under resource constraints, improved heuristic methods (HMs) as...

Twenty three hydatidiform moles (HMs) were studied using the techniques of "RFLPs" employing a minisatellite deoxyribonucleic acid probe. Among the 23 HMs, 17 were homozygous types resulting from a duplicated haploid sperm, and two were heterozygous types resulting from fertilization two independent sperms (dispermy). It was revealed that the four histopathologically diagnosed complete HMs (CHM...

A little-appreciated association between renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and hematologic malignancies (HMs) has been reported for at least 20 years. The HM characteristically occurs first in patients with both neoplasms, and the large majority (94%) of these HMs are of B-cell origin. Furthermore, the majority of patients with RCC and an HM are male. Recently, we have noted an increased incidence of ...

Incubation of human leukocytes with dehydroascorbate (DHA) results in an increase in their reduced ascorbate (AA) content and hexose monophosphate shunt (HMS) activity, independent of oxygen supply. Incubation with AA induces these changes only in the presence of oxygen. The increase in HMS activity observed as cell AA increases by 1 micromol is the same during incubation with either DHA or AA....

Malaria is endemic in the North of Brazil. However, Hyperreactive Malarious Splenomegaly (HMS) has been rarely described. Splenomegaly in HIV/Aids infection has a large differential diagnosis, but malaria is a cause of gross splenomegaly, regardless of the HIV status. In this paper, we report the case of a 50-year-old man, HIV positive, with massive splenomegaly and multiple malaria infections ...

OBJECTIVE To provide data on herbal medicine (HM) use and safety in patients attending a nephrology clinic at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). METHODS A prospective, 3-month study between June and September 2007, investigated all patients presenting to the Nephrology Clinic of the Sheikh Khalifa Medical center (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. A structured qu...

Thyroxine-induced epilepsy is a very rare condition occurring in epileptic patients. Here we report a boy with thyroxine-induced hypermotor seizure (HMS) following thyroxine administration for his central hypothyroidism secondary to surgery and cranial radiation for his brain tumor. After 3 years seizure-free period, he had repeated HMS, seven to eight attacks per day, after initiation L-thyrox...

Objective Determine the effects of hyoid myotomy and suspension (HMS) without concurrent palatal or tongue base sleep surgery for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Method Patients with OSA treated with HMS were identified using CPT code (21685) at an academic and private sleep surgery clinic. Those who underwent concurrent palatal or tongue base sleep surgery were excluded. Outcomes included sim...

Although holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) have been recognized as a paradigm to cope with changes in manufacturing environment based on a flexible architecture, several characteristics of HMS such as re-configurability have not been characterized quantitatively. To realize these advantages, more concrete mechanisms or methodologies need to be developed. The objectives of this paper are to pr...

Transcription factor (TF) binding and histone modification (HM) are important for the precise control of gene expression. Hence, we constructed statistical models to relate these to gene expression levels in mouse embryonic stem cells. While both TF binding and HMs are highly 'predictive' of gene expression levels (in a statistical, but perhaps not strictly mechanistic, sense), we find they sho...