Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease which has a complex etiology that encompasses immunologic responses. The study was carried out to examine the effect of Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) leaf (NL) on the AD-like skin lesion induced by repeated epicutaneous application of 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) on the dorsal skin of NC/Nga mice. Three different doses of NL (5, 25, ...

Computation with information described in natural language (NL) has intrinsic importance because much of human knowledge is described using these languages. Soft Computing approach to NL-Computation concerns with semantic imprecision of natural languages through the use of NL precisiation, generalized constraints and prototypical forms. NLs are basically systems for describing perceptions. NL p...

It has been thought that narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies are likely to be in the early stages of the evolution of active galaxies. To test this suggestion, the ratios of the central massive black hole (MBH) mass to the bulge mass (Mbh/Mbulge) were estimated for 22 Narrow Line AGNs (NL AGNs). It is found that NL AGNs appear to have genuinely lower MBH/Bulge mass ratio (Mbh/Mbulge). The mean log(M...

The purpose of this study was to compare the steps/d derived from the ActiGraph GT3X+ using the manufacturer's default filter (DF) and low-frequency-extension filter (LFX) with those from the NL-1000 pedometer in an older adult sample. Fifteen older adults (61-82 yr) wore a GT3X+ (24 hr/day) and an NL-1000 (waking hours) for 7 d. Day was the unit of analysis (n = 86 valid days) comparing (a) GT...

The need to represent actions arises in many different areas of investigation, such as philosophy [5], semantics [10], and planning. In the first two areas, representations are generally developed without any computational concerns. The third area sees action representation mainly as functional to the more general task of reaching a certain goal: actions have often been represented by a predica...

Extended Abstract 1. It is common practice in theoretical linguistics, formal semantics and cognitive mod-eling to identify real world entities with the (symbolic) structures that represent them. Some of the problems in logics and linguistics that these models encounter, are due to the (crisp) declarative formats of (symbolic, compositional, propositional) representations employed, and the (rul...

Plants possess compounds serving as reducing agents for green synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), which is currently considered biomedical application. Exposure to cadmium (Cd) can affect the functional integrity several organs such kidney and liver. Nymphaea lotus (NL) known its medicinal properties, including protective role against tissue damages. This study investigated bioactive in NL...

Requirements engineering is a critical phase in software development that describes the customer needs and the specifications for the software solution. Requirements are gathered through various sources and the output is a list of requirements for a software product to be developed, written in Natural Language (NL). NL requirements are fault prone because stakeholders can interpret NL different...

We propose to present NLProv: an end-to-end Natural Language (NL) interface for database queries. Previous work has focused on interfaces for specifying NL questions, which are then compiled into queries in a formal language (e.g. SQL). We build upon this work, but focus on presenting a detailed form of the answers in Natural Language. The answers that we present are importantly based on the pr...

In this paper, we present a novel approach to generate Alloy code from Natural Language (NL) constraints. The proposed research is basically an extension of two projects, NL2OCL and UML2Alloy.Our method uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Model Transformation (MT) to transform constraints expressed in NL to Alloy. We do not directly transform NL to Alloy, instead we use multiple intermed...