Blind track

Blind Relevance Feedback with Wikipedia: Enterprise Track

In this year’s Enterprise track experiment, we focused on testing Blind Relevance Feedback, especially using online Wikipedia as query expansion collection. We demonstrated that using Wikipedia as query expansion collection returns better infNDCG than not using it.

Radiation track and DNA damage

Investigation of the Influences of Track Superstructure Parameters on Ballasted Railway Track Design

The main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. Numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. Therefore, railway track desig...

Liberal or restrictive fluid administration in fast-track colonic surgery: a randomized, double-blind study.

BACKGROUND Evidence-based guidelines on optimal perioperative fluid management have not been established, and recent randomized trials in major abdominal surgery suggest that large amounts of fluid may increase morbidity and hospital stay. However, no information is available on detailed functional outcomes or with fast-track surgery. Therefore, we investigated the effects of two regimens of in...

‘On-track’ and ‘off-track’ shoulder lesions

Shoulder stability depends on the position of the arm as well as activities of the muscles around the shoulder. The capsulo-ligamentous structures are the main stabilisers with the arm at the end-range of movement, whereas negative intra-articular pressure and concavity-compression effect are the main stabilisers with the arm in the mid-range of movement.There are two types of glenoid bone loss...