Pertinent Questions

Optimizing the Retrieval of Pertinent Answers for NL Questions with the E-Librarian Service

There is a growing discrepancy between the creation of digital content and its actual employment and usefulness in a learning society. Technologies for recording lectures have become readily available and the sheer number and size of such objects produced grows exponentially. However, in practice most recordings are monolithic entities that cannot be integrated into an active learning process o...

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Pertinent parameters for Kautz approximation

A procedure for determining two parameters to be used in Kautz approximation is presented. It is based on minimisation of an upper bound of the error energy.

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Acellular pertussis vaccines pertinent issues.

Efficacy of whole cell pertussis vaccines (wP) in humans correlates with (and hence is measured by) the ‘mouse protection test’, wherein vaccinated mice are challenged with live B. pertussis. This test does not work similarly with acellular pertussis vaccines (aP); hence antibody levels to various antigens are measured as a surrogate marker of efficacy. This difference between the direct as com...