A goal that I have set for myself as Editor is to add some new features to our standard fare of erudite technical articles. There are always times when those who do science need to pause and reflect about the broader implications of what they do. It occurred to me that an occasional column by writers who want to probe into such matters might interest a large cross-section of our readers. Drs. J...

introduction: fragile x syndrome (fxs) is one of the most prevalent genetic causes of developmental disability, representing the most frequent form of inherited severe cognitive deficit. the present study was undertaken to investigate fxs and its prevalence in moderate mentally retarded people in patients. materials and methods: nineteen people with moderate mental retardation (mr) who were cli...

Bayes linear kinematics and graphical models provide an extension of methods so that full conditional updates may be combined with belief adjustment. The use eliminates the problem non-commutativity which was observed in earlier work involving moment-based updates. In this paper we describe approach investigate its application to rapid computation prognostic index values survival when a patient...

This paper proposes a simple and elegant solution for language identification and named entity (NE) recognition at a word level, as a part of Subtask-1: Query Word Labeling of FIRE 2015. Given any query q1:w1 w2 w3 ... wn in Roman script, the task calls for labeling words of the query as English (En) or a member of L, where L = {Bengali (Bn), Gujarati (Gu), Hindi (Hi), Kannada (Kn), Malayalam (...

Introduction: Nowadays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in combination with computed-tomography (CT) is increasingly being used in radiation therapy planning. MR and CT images are applied to determine the target volume and calculate dose distribution, respectively. Since the use of these two imaging modalities causes registration uncertainty and increases department w...