The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) has developed a suite of tools and services that allow scientists to create and publish metadata describing scientific experiments. Using these tools and services—referred to collectively as the CEDAR Workbench—scientists can collaboratively author metadata and submit them to public repositories. A key focus of our software is semant...

Taxonomy classification and query answering are the core reasoning services provided by most of the Semantic Web (SW) reasoners. However, the algorithms used by those reasoners are based on Tableau method or Rules. These well-known methods in the literature have already shown their limitations for large-scale reasoning. In this demonstration, we shall present the CEDAR system for classifying an...

This paper t l introduces the reader to many of the salient features of the Cedar Programming Environment, a state-of-the-art programming system that combines in a single integrated environment: high quality graphics, a sophisticated editor and document preparation facility, and a variety o f tools for the programmer to use in the construction and debugging o f his programs. The Cedar Programmi...

BACKGROUND Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) pollinosis is the most prevalent seasonal rhinitis in Japan. A standardized Japanese cedar pollen extract (CPE) containing 1.5-4.2 μg of Cry j 1 is currently the highest-concentration extract available for allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) against this pollinosis. Therefore, we developed a PEGylated fusion protein as a more effective SIT vacc...

BACKGROUND Second-generation oral H1-antihistamines have become a mainstay of treatment for the symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis; however, the effect of olopatadine has not been widely reported to date. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of 2 oral H1-antihistamines, olopatadine and fexofenadine, in the treatment of the nasal symptoms of Japanese cedar pollinosis and their possible side...

BACKGROUND Many subjects are sensitized to Japanese cedar pollen but do not develop allergic rhinitis (AR). The aim of this study was to examine the immunologic parameters related to the development of AR in sensitized subjects. METHODS The subjects were 33 adults who were sensitized to Japanese cedar pollen, but had not developed as of 2007. Cedar pollen-specific IgE (sIgE) and total IgE (t...

We extract stroke pairs from opposite sides of CEDAR digit pen traces.

Ocean tsunami wavelengths are sufficiently long to produce atmospheric internal gravity waves that propagate to the ionosphere, creating disturbances in ionospheric electron density that travel with the ocean waves below. These traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) can be observed using measurements of integrated ionospheric electron density (also known as total electron content, or TEC) be...

BACKGROUND Respiratory virus infections are involved in asthma exacerbations. However, there are no reports of the relationship between respiratory virus infections and Japanese cedar pollinosis. OBJECTIVE We studied the relationship between respiratory viral infection and the appearance of preseasonal symptoms and the severity of seasonal symptoms in Japanese cedar pollinosis. METHODS In 3...