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Introduction Thyroid cancer frequently recurs in the superior or anterior mediastinum. Midline sternotomy is usually performed in order to dissect recurrent mediastinal cancers, but there is a high risk of haemorrhage that can result from unintentionally cutting the brachiocephalic veins adhering to the sternum. A safe and minimally invasive method is thus required for the treatment of recurren...

We describe a pipeline system that automatically generates Biological Expression Language (BEL) statements from biomedical journal articles. The system incorporates existing systems for coreference resolution, event extraction, and BEL statement generation. While addressing the BEL track (Track 4) at BioCreative V (2015), we also investigate how incorporating coreference resolution might impact...

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is gaining increasing credence among public health researchers and practitioners. However, there is no standardization in assessing the quality of research methods, the effectiveness of the interventions, and the reporting requirements in the literature. The absence of standardization precludes meaningful comparisons of CBPR studies. Several authors...

This study investigated the identification and subsequent development or modification of students ́ ideas about scientific phenomena by teaching by concept cartoons© method. We found out ideas of students of the fourth grade of primary school by conceptual tasks which were parts of quasi-experiment (pretest and posttest desing). For triangulation purposes, we have used additional research method...

This article explores the shortcomings of conventional validity theory for guiding classroom assessment practice and suggests additional theoretical resources from sociocultural theorg and hermeneutics to complement and challenge conuentionaZ theorg. T o illuminate these concerns and possibilities in a concrete context, the author uses her own classroom experience in teaching a qualitative rese...

At the level of theory it is now widely accepted that energy consumption patterns are a complex technical and socio-cultural phenomenon and to understand this phenomenon, it must be viewed from both engineering and social science perspectives. However, the methodological approaches taken in household energy studies lag behind the theoretical advances made in the last ten or fifteen years. The q...

Previous studies on causality estimation mainly aquire causal event pairs from a large corpus based on lexico-syntactic patterns and coreference relations, and estimate causality by a statistical method. However, most of the previous studies assume event pairs can be represented by a pair of single words, therefore they cannot estimate multiword causality correctly (e.g.“tired”-“give up”) . In ...

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of two generalized soft intersection filters of BL-algebras. Some characterizations of these soft intersection filters are discussed. In particular, the relationships among these soft intersection filters are established. This provides a new soft algebraic tool in many uncertainties problems.

This paper is set against a background of national IS initiatives implemented in the Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) sectors of developing Asian countries through donor agency funded projects, which can be seen as Project Intervention Processes (PIPs). This research is based on a six year research study of IS initiatives implemented in nine VTE sector projects covering Laos, Sri Lanka ...