OBJECTIVE To evaluate three commercially available tick removal tools against medium-tipped nontissue tweezers. METHODS We evaluated three commercially available tick removal tools against medium-tipped tweezers. Three inexperienced users randomly removed attached American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis Say) and lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum L.) from laboratory rabbits in a univers...

The emphasis of reusing domain knowledge in system development makes ontology the most important disciplines in the information system industry at present. Many domain specific ontology editors are currently available for developing ontologies. However, selecting the most appropriate editor is a challenge because each ontology construction initiative requires its own budget, time, and resources...

1. Introduction Software Engineering has provided the HCI community with tools and techniques for the software design and implementation of interactive systems. Although UIMS's, user interface toolkits, and architectural models improve usability in their own way, they do not explicitly address evaluation. On the other hand, HCI tools, methods, and notations are available but not incorporated in...

Ontologies are being used nowadays in many areas, including bioinformatics. One of the issues in ontology research is the aligning and merging of ontologies. Tools have been developed for ontology merging, but they have not been evaluated for their use in bioinformatics. In this paper we evaluate two of the most well-known ontology merging tools with a bioinformatics perspective. As test ontolo...

Although the processing power of uniprocessor sy5 terns is significantly increasing every year, there is a never ending quest for peak performance. The so called grand challenges in computing require more computing power than a single uniprocessor machine can ever offer. Recent advances in parallel processing however has brought the solution of grand challenges into reach. What is usually negle...

Mobile technology, over the years, has improved tremendously in sophistication and functionality. Today, there are mobile phones, known as smartphones, that can perform virtually most functions associated with personal computers. This has translated to increase in the adoption of mobile technology. Consequently, there has been an increase in the number of attacks against and with the aid of thi...

MOTIVATION Gene prioritization aims at identifying the most promising candidate genes among a large pool of candidates-so as to maximize the yield and biological relevance of further downstream validation experiments and functional studies. During the past few years, several gene prioritization tools have been defined, and some of them have been implemented and made available through freely ava...

The consortium ECESS (European Center of Excellence for Speech Synthesis) has set up a framework for evaluation of software modules and tools relevant for speech synthesis. Till now two lines of evaluation campaigns have been established: Evaluation of the ECESS TTS modules (text processing, prosody, acoustic synthesis) Evaluation of ECESS tools (pitch extraction, voice activity detection, phon...

persian natural language processing (nlp) researchers have many limitations to access linguistic tools which are suitable for text processing. therefore, researchin persian text processing is very limited. since dataset is an important requirement for experiments and their evaluation, we aimed to create appropriate corpora for information retrieval and natural language processing in persian. th...

The simulation of the business and manufacturing processes plays an essential role in modern scientific research and decision-making in management. However, this simulation, especially its output performance measures, can be very tricky because these simulations depend on the calculations of particular simulation software. The objective of this paper is to confront the average values of perform...