A reading comprehension (RC) system attempts to understand a document and returns an answer sentence when posed with a question. RC resembles the ad hoc question answering (QA) task that aims to extract an answer from a collection of documents when posed with a question. However, since RC focuses only on a single document, the system needs to draw upon external knowledge sources to achieve deep...

A Quasi-Sliding Mode (QSM) based tracking control method for tackling Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) nonlinear continuous-time systems with un-matching system uncertainties and exogenous disturbances is proposed. The presented Repetitive Control (RC) scheme ensures robust system stability when the system is subject to non-periodic uncertainties and exogenous disturbances. The complete re...

Reconfigurable computing (RC) applications have the potential for significant performance while consuming little power. Although runtime performance analysis of RC applications has previously been shown to be important in achieving this potential, the optimization process is still arduous. We target two primary contributing factors: the incongruence between traditional CPU-based performance vis...

This paper presents new mappings of 2D and 3D geometrical transformation on the MorphoSys (M1) reconfigurable computing (RC) prototype [2]. This improves the system performance as a graphics accelerator [1-5]. Three algorithms are mapped including two for calculating 2D transformations, and one for 3D transformations. The results presented indicate an improved performance. The speedup achieved ...

Modeling liquids/resins have been used to build up resin composite (RC) restorations, although there is a lack of information regarding their effects on the color stability of the latter. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of the presence of modeling liquid between layers of RC and the finishing/polishing state of the material on color change in specimens ex...

In order to identify the viral gene related to the pathogenicity of rabies virus, we tried to establish a reverse genetics system of the attenuated RC-HL strain, which causes nonlethal infection in adult mice after intracerebral inoculation. A full-length genome plasmid encoding the complete antigenomic cDNA of the RC-HL strain and helper plasmids containing cDNAs of the complete open reading f...

sReceived 9 May 2004; accepted 28 March 2005; published online 26 May 2005d Simulations of He– He mixtures with negative separation ratios in two-dimensional containers with realistic boundary conditions and moderately large aspect ratio G are described. The system exhibits a large variety of states with complex time dependence including intermittent wave localization and chaotic “repeated tran...

Tellegen et al. (2003) proposed fundamental changes in MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) scale development by discarding empirical scale development in favor of construct validation via Jackson's (1970) sequential system of scale development. As a result of their efforts, a general distress factor (Demoralization) was identified and 8 Restructured Clinical (RC) Scal...

Objectives: Different chelators may be used during root canal treatment, offering various advantages including lubricant effect inside the canal and smear layer removal. However, chelator residues in narrow root canals can lead to apical microleakage. The aim of this in-vitro study was to compare apical microleakage following the use of three root canal chelators via fluid filtration method in ...

Often gaining insight into the functioning of biomolecular systems requires to follow their dynamics along a microscopic reaction coordinate (RC) on a macroscopic time scale, which is beyond the reach of current all atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A practical approach to this inherently multiscale problem is to model the system as a fictitious overdamped Brownian particle that diffuse...