The concept of microbial ecological change as a mechanism for preventing dental diseases is an important one while altered microbial ecology may also lead to dental diseases. New methods such as probiotic approaches to eliminate pathogenic members of the microbiota can be investigated. Probiotics have been extensively studied for their health promoting effects. The main field of research has be...

The authors encountered a case involving difficult intubation during anesthesia for revision of cervical fixation angle in a 62-year-old woman, with a history of chronic rheumatoid arthritis, who experienced dysphagia after initial posterior occipitocervical fusion to correct atlantoaxial subluxation. Two days after initial surgery, she developed trismus with neck flexion and dysphagia, and und...

The revision of beliefs is an important general purpose functionality that an agent must exhibit. The agent usually needs to perform this task in cooperation with other agents, because access to knowledge and the knowledge itself are distributed in nature. In this work, we propose a new approach for performing belief revision in a society of logic-based agents, by means of a (distributed) genet...

One way to address preferences in Multi-Agent negotiation scenarios, is to devise a strategy for removal of contradictions, which may arise when the preferences of all agents are put together. This paper contributes towards that goal by proposing a methodology, based on declarative diagnosis, that minimises the losses of all agents (i.e. the number of preferences they have to yield in order to ...

Some revisions of documents can change the meaning of passages, while others merely re-phrase or improve style. In a multi-author workflow, assisting readers to assess whether a revision changes meaning or not can be useful in prioritising revision. One challenge in this is how to detect and represent the revision changes in a meaningful way to assist users in assessing the impact of revision c...

The ability to respond sensibly to changing and conflicting beliefs is an integral part of intelligent agency. To this end, we outline the design and implementation of a Distributed Assumption based Truth Maintenance System (DATMS) appropriate for controlling cooperative problem solving in a dynamic real world multi-agent community. Our DATMS works on the principle of local coherence which mean...

One way to address preferences in Multi-Agent negotiation scenarios, is to devise a strategy for removal of contradictions, which may arise when the preferences of all agents are put together. This paper contributes towards that goal by proposing a methodology, based on declarative diagnosis, that minimizes the losses of all agents (i.e. the number of preferences they have to yield in order to ...