There is a resurgence of interest in the development of degradable and biocompatible polymers for fabrication of nerve guide conduits (NGCs) in recent years. Poly(phosphoester) (PPE) polymers are among the attractive candidates in this context, in view of their high biocompatibility, adjustable biodegradability, flexibility in coupling fragile biomolecules under physiological conditions and a w...

Textual Entailment (TE) is a binary relation between two natural language text which holds if the truth of a first text implies the truth of the second one, or at least makes it very likely. Good methods to recognize TE have the potential to impact many NLP tasks, where the ability to draw conclusions from textual expressed facts is a key challenge. The area of TE has seen the development of a ...

In this article I propose an alternative account of expletive THERE based on the theory that formal features may move overtly at PF. Specifically, I argue that the «inadequacies» of expletive THERE alluded to in Chomsky (1993: 33) are the result of the fact that THERE is simply a collection of formal features, an «alternative» spell-out of the Case and Agreement features of a lexical NP and has...

This paper explains some of the autostereoscopy research areas and presents a system to create autostereoscopic content in a 3D game engine. Several camera configuration sets for the system are proposed and some user tests are carried out. These tests aim to determine which of the different configuration sets: dynamic converging optical axis, static converging optical axis and parallel optical ...

Jeff rey Green’s The Eyes of the People (EOP) poses the question of what popular empowerment might mean in twenty-fi rst-century liberal democracies. It diagnoses and takes critical aim at the widespread assumption that popular power must relate to the legislative capacity to determine the laws and norms shaping political life. Whereas leading paradigms of democracy—deliberative, aggregationist...

Abstract Microfluidic devices have been employed in micro-analytical systems and microelectronics using inexpensive, customisable fluid-handling automation at the microliter scale. Here we utilise a well-established fibre drawing technique, which offers range of materials capillary conformations, that can be utilized within microfluidic to control fluid movement via electroosmotic processes pro...

A settlement analysis has been carried out for several sectors of a rail station yard improved with prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) in Istanbul, Turkey, that exhibited prolonged consolidation beyond the predicted values certain treated zone. Final and End Primary (EOP) times have estimated theoretically as well using Asaoka graphical procedure. The compliance settlement-time curves in-situ ...

Abstract Polar motion is the movement of Earth's rotational axis relative to its crust, reflecting influence material exchange and mass redistribution each layer Earth on rotation axis. To better analyze temporally varying characteristics polar motion, multi-channel singular spectrum analysis (MSSA) was used EOP 14 C04 series released by International Rotation Reference System Service (IERS) fr...

Introduction: Cyberattacks on healthcare systems are increasing in frequency and severity. Hospitals need to integrate cybersecurity preparedness into their emergency operations planning response order mitigate adverse outcomes during increasingly likely cyber events. No data currently exists regarding the level of US hospital for attacks. We surveyed managers assess these Method: Fifty-seven r...

This article presents a novel methodology to predict the optimal adaptive cruise control set speed profile (ACCSSP) by optimizing engine operating conditions (EOC) considering vehicle level vectors (VLV) (body parameter, environment, driver behaviour) as affecting parameters. paper investigates criteria develop predictive model of ACCSSP in real-time. We developed deep learning (DL) using NARX ...