This paper describes an approach for utilizing in-situ measurements of shear wave velocity Vs to carry out preliminary and check design calculations shallow deep foundations. For estimates foundation movements, can be used directly estimate the small-strain stiffness soil or rock strata, while ultimate capacity calculations, use is made empirical correlations between penetration resistance meas...

Machine learning has proven itself in the small, although theoretical, al-gorithmic and implementational advances at the foundational level will continue to improve the basic building blocks in the eld. Empirical induction methods have been developed Michalski et al. at the symbolic level and tested on standard (albeit small) test suites, 1 and occasionally they have been used externally, as in...

Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF) are all chronic pulmonary diseases, albeit with different etiologies, that are characterized by airflow limitation, chronic inflammation, and abnormal mucus production/rheology. Small synthetic molecule-based therapies are commonly prescribed for all three diseases. However, there has been increased interest in "biol...

We study the problem of organizing the documents returned by an information retrieval system in response to a natural language query. We consider two well-known approaches – the ranked list and clustering of the results – and we show how they can be integrated. This new procedure is designed to accept user feedback and direct the user toward the relevant material as effectively as the tradition...

Translational clinical trials are small studies of therapies emerging from the laboratory. These trials are essential for generating early evidence regarding the effects of treatment on specific targets in the disease pathway and for guiding the next studies to be done. The statistical properties of such studies have been neglected, in part, because they do not fit the well-known clinical trial...

A study of 243 employees of two different hospitality organizations compared the effects of managers’ giving feedback with no comments at all (favorable or unfavorable). The study found that feedback, formally known as contingent reinforcement, improves performance even when that feedback involves negative or corrective comments. Echoing previous studies, this research found a positive relation...

We examined the role of fitness, commonly assumed without proof to be conferred by the mastery of language, in shaping the dynamics of language evolution. To that end, we introduced island migration (a concept borrowed from population genetics) into the shared lexicon model of communication (Nowak et al., 1999). The effect of fitness linear in language coherence was compared to a control condit...

We study the problem of organizing the documents returned by an information retrieval system in response to a natural language query. We consider two well-known approaches – the ranked list and clustering of the results – and we show how they can be integrated. This new procedure is designed to accept user feedback and direct the user toward the relevant material as effectively as the tradition...

Intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round cell tumor is a rare entity with a few reports worldwide. This tumor commonly occurs in children and adolescent and occurrence in adult age group is very rare. Here, we describe an adult male with symptoms of intestinal obstruction due to abdominal mass, located in splenic flexure. After resection, the diagnosis of intra-abdominal desmoplastic small roun...