The objective of this study was to determine the chronology of changes in blood pressure in renalhypertension induced by solid plexiglass clips in rats. Saw blades with the thickness of 0.21-0.22 mm wereused to make clips sized 4 × 2 × 2 mm from a piece of 2-mm thick plexiglass. Rats were subjected to shamoperation or left renal arterial clipping, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later blood pressure, a...

This document present work we have done for the CLEF 2004 participation. We promote the use of surface-syntactic parsing to extract indexing terms. We also promote the Derivation From Randomness weighting. For the bilingual part, we have tested reinforcement query weighting using an association thesaurus.

In this paper we describe the methodology developed in the framework of a feasibility study for the derivation of a semantically annotated French lexicon from a monolingual Italian lexical resource. Firstly, an outline of the source lexicon is provided. Then, the two different and complementary strategies that have been experimented for pairing off the relevant monolingual Italian entries and t...

This paper describes teacher development issues arising in a school based collaborative case study, the Computers and Learning in Primary Schools (CLIPS) research project. This longitudinal project has been based in five schools in Melbourne, Australia since 1992. This paper includes relevant exhacts from the data of one of the case studies and discussion of some overall findings of the project...

We explore a novel approach to evaluate aesthetic qualities of video clips by analyzing key motion features. With a growing number of videos and more interest in sorting through media, evaluating aesthetics is increasingly important. Our approach examines high-level motion-based features in video that account for distribution, trajectory, fluidity, completeness, as well as smooth camera and sub...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with intact experience but abnormal expression of emotion. Because emotion regulation is important in determining levels of experienced and expressed emotion, individuals with AD and control participants were asked to watch film clips under conditions of spontaneous expression, suppression, or amplification of emotion. Both groups had difficulties with beh...