Seeking Answers for Progressive MS

"design Issues Seeking Research Answers"

Seeking Answers for Post-Infectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Retrospective and prospective studies published over the past 15 years have revealed incidences of PI-IBS ranging from seven to 31 percent, with follow-up periods of three months to six years following AGE. Of note, these studies spanned multiple continents and involved an array of gut pathogens. A recent meta-analysis calculated a 9.8 percent prevalence of IBS following AGE compared to 1.2 per...

Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites

In many questions in Community Question Answering sites users look for the advice or opinion of other users who might offer diverse perspectives on a topic at hand. The novel task we address is providing supportive evidence for human answers to such questions, which will potentially help the asker in choosing answers that fit her needs. We present a support retrieval model that ranks sentences ...

P 70: Primary Progressive MS and Affecting Genes

Multiple sclerosis is a CNS autoimmune disease configured by demyelination, inflammation, and degeneration of axons. This disease inflict great harms to patients. The most common problem is inability to control musculoskeletal system and decrease in mobility. These consequences could vary from patients to patients. About 10-15% of all MS patients develop primary progressive MS (PPMS). Despite t...

Progressive Mode-Seeking on Graphs for Sparse Feature Matching

Sparse feature matching poses three challenges to graph-based methods: (1) the combinatorial nature makes the number of possible matches huge; (2) most possible matches might be outliers; (3) high computational complexity is often incurred. In this paper, to resolve these issues, we propose a simple, yet surprisingly effective approach to explore the huge matching space in order to significantl...