Saliva is a complex body fluid that comprises secretions from the major and minor salivary glands, which are extensively supplied by blood. Therefore, molecules such as proteins, DNA, RNA, etc., present in plasma could be also present in saliva. Many studies have reported that saliva body fluid can be useful for discriminating several oral diseases, but also systemic diseases including cancer. ...

The main properties that should be satisfied by any jet definition were already pointed out almost twenty years ago [1, 2]: the jet algorithm should be 1) simple to implement both in experimental analysis and theoretical calculations, 2) well defined and yielding a finite cross section at any order of perturbation theory, 3) relatively insensitive to hadronization. Many different jet definition...

However, mattaku and zenzen are not uniform in terms of scalarity and polarity. In sentence (1), zenzen is natural in a situation where the speaker actually has a little money, whereas mattaku is unacceptable in such a situation. Descriptively, we can summarize this distinction as follows: ‘Zenzen not P’ implies ‘a little P’ but ‘mattaku not P’ entails ‘completely not P.’ (P= gradable predicate...

We present a deterministic parallel algorithm for the k–majority problem, that can be used to find in parallel frequent items, i.e., those whose multiplicity is greater than a given threshold, and is therefore useful in the context of iceberg queries and many other different contexts. The algorithm can be used both in the on–line (stream) context and in the off–line setting, the difference bein...

Items in many datasets can be arranged to a natural order. Such orders are useful since they can provide new knowledge about the data and may ease further data exploration and visualization. Our goal in this paper is to define a statistically well-founded and an objective score measuring the quality of an order. Such a measure can be used for determining whether the current order has any valuab...

Data exploration is seeing a renewed interest in our community. With the rise of big data analytics, this area is growing to encompass not only approaches and algorithms to find the next best data items to explore but also interactivity, i.e. accounting for feedback from the data scientist during the exploration. Interactivity is essential to account for evolving needs during the exploration an...

In this paper we describe recent work to provide a filtering service for readers interested in medically related news articles from online news sources. The first task is to filter out the nonmedical news articles. The remaining articles, the medically related ones, are then assigned MeSH headings for context and then categorized further by intended audience level (medical expert, medically kno...

People nowadays struggle with huge unstructured collections containing some important knowledge. Search engines were developed to allow an easy access to relevant information, however they themselves produce for many queries large (unstructured) result sets. We suggest to tackle this problem by structuring these result lists or even complete collections in a personalized way, i.e. as the user w...

Smart Items sind Objekte, die anhand von Sensoren ihren Zustand sowie Umweltinformationen ermitteln und weitergeben können. Um in ereignisgesteuerten Prozessketten auf diese feingranularen Zustandsinformationen reagieren zu können, ist es notwendig, die Sensordaten zu aggregieren (Objekt-Ebene), so dass ihnen Ereignisse auf höherer Ebene (Prozess-Ebene) zugeordnet werden können. Da dieser Abgle...