Japanese weather highlights in 1989.

Prevalence of japanese encephalitis and its modulation by weather variables

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a major public health problem in India. To study the influence of climatic factors on JE, cases and the transmitting mosquito species were analysed during 2001 to 2006. To know the status of Japanese encephalitis virus activity in human population, sero-epidemiological studies were undertaken in villages of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Similarly, mosqui...

Results of the Kansas City 1989 Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) Operational Evaluation Testing

The Lincoln Laboratory Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) testbed was used to carry out an experimental and operational hazardous weather product evaluation program for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the Kansas City International (KCI) airport during the summer of 1989. The objective of the program was to test and refine previously tested techniques for the automatic detection ...

Anorexia: Highlights in Traditional Persian medicine and conventional medicine

Objective: Anorexia and impaired appetite (Dysorexia) are common symptoms with varying causes, and often need no serious medical intervention. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a chronic psychiatric disease with a high mortality rate. In Traditional Persian Medicine (TPM), anorexia is a condition in which anorexic patients lose appetite due to dystemperament. This review aims to discuss the common point...

Mokusei: a telephone-based Japanese conversational system in the weather domain

This paper describes MOKUSEI, an end-to-end Japanese version of our JUPITER weather information system. MOKUSEI delivers weather information over the phone through natural conversation with the user. For the most part, MOKUSEI uses the same components for recognition, understanding, and generation that JUPITER uses, and the database and the semantic frames for the weather information content ar...

: 1989 – 2009