We present a novel approach to documentary storytelling thatcelebrates electronic narrative as a process in which the author(s), anetworked presentation system, and the audience actively collaborate inthe co-construction of meaning. A spreadingactivation network is usedto select relevant story elements from a multimedia database anddynamically conjoin them into an appealing, coherent narrativep...

BACKGROUND Aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare disease in which hematopoietic stem cells are severely diminished resulting in hypocellular bone marrow and pancytopenia. Etiology of AA includes auto immunity, toxins, infection, ionizing radiation, drugs and rare genetic disorders, but in the majority of cases no cause can be identified. In the present study we assessed response rate, survival, relaps...

We propose a deenition of density for packings of circles of xed radius in the hyperbolic plane, and prove that for all but countably many radii, optimally dense packings must have low symmetry.

Relaxin (Hisaw, 1926) is an ovarian polypeptide hormone (Frieden and Hisaw, 1953), which appears in the serum during pregnancy in most mammals, including women (Perkoff, Salhanick, Zarrow, Nelson, and Tyler, 1954). Its action, which is blocked by testosterone or adrenal corticosteroids (Brennan and Zarrow, 1957) and increased by oestrogens (Hall, 1947), is to produce changes in the ground subst...

We present a system for computer aided diagnosis of bone tumors in the facial skeleton. There are many diierent lesions with ra-diographic manifestation in the jaws. Our system helps performing the diierential diagnosis of these. The input is a digitized orthopantomo-graph (OPG) in which the user marks the position of the lesion with a single mouse click. An active contour model then automatica...

loss of diurnal rhythm, in cortisol and leptin secretion. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998; 83: 280–3. [6] Anker SD, Ponikowski P, Varney S et al. Wasting as independent risk factor for mortality in chronic heart failure. Lancet 1997; 349: 1050–3. [7] Cleland JG, Clark AL. Leptin and cardiac cachexia: marker or mediator? Eur Heart J 1998; 19: 1421–2. [8] Poehlman ET, Scheffers J, Gottlieb SS, Fishe...

We extend a measurement-based admission control algorithm suggested for predictive service to provide advance reservations for guaranteed and predictive service while keeping the attractive features of pre-dictive service. The admission decision for advance reservations is based on information about ows that overlap in time. For ows that have not yet started, the requested values are used, and ...