Generating summaries that meet the information needs of a user relies on (1) several forms of question decomposition; (2) different summarization approaches; and (3) textual inference for combining the summarization strategies. This novel framework for summarization has the advantage of producing highly responsive summaries, as indicated by the evaluation results. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights ...

The increasing range and complexity of biologicals, and the greater demand for these products, have resulted in a greater volume of trade in animal-based biological material. This has given rise, in turn, to many approaches to the regulation of importation of these materials, as countries seek protection against the introduction of disease. Harmonization of these regulatory approaches would con...

The increased scope and complexity of tasks that people perform as part of their routine work has led to growing interest in the development of intelligent personal assistive agents that can aid a human in managing and performing tasks. One desired capability for such agents is that they be able to act proactively to anticipate user needs, opportunities and problems, and then act on their own i...

The Contextual Suggestion Problem focuses on search techniques for complex information needs that are highly dependent on context and user interest. In this paper, we present our approach to providing user and context dependent suggestions. The official evaluation scores for our submitted run are reported and compared to the overall median scores (across all 34 runs).

Aims: cancer patients have to face with the disease, invasive treatments and adverse effects of the disease and treatments in a long term period. These people have various needs in long term process of diagnosis, treatments and recovery that often remain unknown and unmet. The present research aimed at evaluating the care needs of cancer patients in various aspects of life. Materials and Metho...

Veterinary vaccines are considered to be medicinal products. As such, they are subject to assessment for managing risks associated with their marketing and use. The current risk assessment procedures used in Africa are based on the quality testing methods standardised by the Pan-African Veterinary Vaccine Centre (PANVAC). The authors examine the risk assessment procedures related to the importa...

Rabies is one of the infectious diseases, highly fatal and true zoonoses. The disease occurs in most countries. In Iran, rabies is endemic and a major public health Problem. The most warm- blooded animals are susceptible to rabies. The methods of transmission is almost always by the bite of an infected animal to human and animals. The saliva of rabid animal contains the rabies virus. The main s...