AIM To compare and evaluate the success rates of various surgical techniques of pterygium excision, including pterygium excision with complete suture of conjunctivae (PESC), pterygium excision with conjunctival auto-graft transplantation with graft from the inferior temporal bulbar conjunctiva (ITBC) and pterygium excision with conjunctival auto-graft transplantation with graft from the superio...

There is current interest in generalizing Bayesian networks by using dependencies which are more general than probabilistic conditional independence (CI). Contextual dependencies, such as context-speciic independence (CSI), are used to decompose a subset of the joint distribution. We have introduced a more general contextual dependency than CSI, as well as a more general noncontextual dependenc...

This report presents an overview on intersection algorithms in 2 and 3 dimensions. It contains a classiication according to the strategy used (divide-and-conquer, prune-and-search, duality) and complexity issues. The Roider method is placed in this framework and connections to linear programming and collision detection are analyzed.

Currently, World-Wide Web has developed to a distributed information space with nearly 100 million workstations and several billion pages, which brings the people great trouble in finding needed information although huge amount of information available on webs. The search engine is a very important tool for people to obtain information on Internet, but the low-precision and lowrecall exist wide...

The aim of this presentation is to discuss evaluation as a tool of a comparative research process. My starting point is that evaluation research is not purely comparative in nature but yet often contains elements which will forward the comparative analysis. In my presentation the analysis will focus on the following question: What kind of roles do evaluation methods have in the field of compara...

An increasingly wide range of tools based on different approaches are being used to implement Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), yet there is little agreement as to which approach is, or approaches are, the most appropriate for any given problem. We believe this can in large part be explained by the lack of understanding within the DSL community. In this paper we aim to increase the understandin...

The Cartesian product of interconnection networks has been investigated recently as a method for combining desirable properties of component networks. This paper presents a unified framework for obtaining and comparing properties of a virtually unlimited number of product networks. This work complements results appeared in the literature for product networks and conducts a comparative study bet...

Adult mosquito collections were conducted for 12 weeks in two residential areas in Kuala Lumpur. The CDC light traps were compared using dry ice and yeast as sources of carbon dioxide attractants for mosquitoes. The efficacy of the dry ice baited trap was significant over yeast generated CO2 trap. The predominant species obtained were Culex quinquefasciatus, Stegomyia albopicta and Armigeres su...

Four antacid preparations have been studied in a stratified, randomized, double-blind trial to evaluate criteria which determine patients' acceptance of this type of therapy. There was a considerable range of judgements about palatability, but preference was determined not only by factors such as the smell, taste, texture and after-taste of the preparation, but also by the order in which the an...