The complex i ty of reasoning is a fundamenta l issue in A I . In many cases, the fact tha t an intel l igent system needs to per form reasoning on-l ine contr ibutes to the di f f icul ty of this reasoning. In this paper we investigate a couple of contexts in which an i n i t i a l phase of off-l ine preprocessing and design can improve the on-l ine complexi ty considerably. The first context ...

En México se ha hecho referencia a una crisis de confianza institucional. El Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) no librado ella, sufriendo disminución desde 2006. objetivo este artículo es analizar la en el INE, partir metodología mixta que contempla análisis encuesta nacional tipo panel y grupos focales. Entre los principales resultados encontramos ine misma proceso electoral conforme acerca j...

Homocysteine and Diet Homocysteine is a sulfur-containing amino acid, rapidly oxidized in plasma to the disulfides homocystine and cysteine-homocysteine (Figure 1). Plasma/serum total homocysteine, also termed homocyst(e)ine, is the sum of homocysteine in all 3 components. Figure 2 displays factors involved in the metabolism of homocysteine, including its metabolic relationship to methionine. A...

Most organisms are able to maintain systemic water homeostasis over a wide range of external or dietary osmolarities. The excretory system, composed of the kidneys in mammals and the Malpighian tubules and hindgut in insects, can increase water conservation and absorption to maintain systemic water homeostasis, which enables organisms to tolerate external hypertonicity or desiccation. However, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To be able to prevent suicides, The exact magnitude of suicides must be known in order to prevent them. There is evidence that data provided on the number of suicides by the Spanish Statistical Office (Instituto Nacional de Estadística [INE]) differs from that identified by forensic pathologists. This paper aims to determine whether the INE data are to the same as thos...

Partial evaluators can be separated into two classes: o ine specializers, which make all of their reduce/residualize decisions before specialization, and online specializers, which make such decisions during specialization. The choice of which method to use is driven by a tradeo between the e ciency of the specializer and the quality of the residual programs that it produces. Existing research ...

The addition of molecular iodine to solutions of te rtiary aliphatic amines in liquid sulphur dioxide is found to result in the formation of stable free radical oxidation in te r­ mediates. In triethylam ine solutions, oxidised under these conditions, arom atisation appears to take place to produce a pyridinyl radical. Radicals formed from N-ethyldim ethylam ine, N ,N -diethylm ethylam ine and ...

We describe a highly optimized protocol for general-purpose secure two-party computation (2PC) in the presence of malicious adversaries. Our starting point is a protocol of Kolesnikov et al. (TCC 2015). We adapt that protocol to the online/o„ine seŠing, where two parties repeatedly evaluate the same function (on possibly di‚erent inputs each time) and perform as much of the computation as possi...

BACKGROUND Plasma levels of homocyst(e)ine are elevated in certain patients with occlusive arterial diseases. We extended these findings to asymptomatic adults. METHODS AND RESULTS We determined plasma homocyst(e)ine levels in 287 pairs of asymptomatic adults. Cases and controls were defined on the basis of intimal-medial thickness of the carotid wall as measured by B-mode ultrasound. Study s...