This paper investigates our experimental results for NTCIR-4 QAC2, the second attempt to evaluate the technology of Japanese question answering (QA). Our basic approach is a combination of information retrieval and named entity (NE) extraction based on pattern matching. The results show that the accuracy of NE extraction crucially affects the overall performance of our system. Additional experi...

autogenous tooth transplantation (att) is a simple and reasonable choice for replacing the missing teeth when a proper donor tooth is available. this report presents a case of successful att of a maxillary right third molar for replacement of mandibular right second molar with a concomitant endodontic-periodontal disease. the mandibular second molar was believed to be hopeless due to a severe d...

high resolution range profile (hrrp) is being known as one of the most powerful tools for radar target recognition. the main problem with range profile for radar target recognition is its sensitivity to aspect angle. to overcome this problem, consecutive samples of hrrp (or feature vectors extracted from them)were assumed to be identically independently distributed (iid) in small frames of aspe...

BACKGROUND Studies that show frequencies of different orthodontic treatment protocols can be used as valuable parameters in the interpretation of treatment tendency with time. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate all orthodontic treatment planning conducted at the Orthodontic Department at Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo, Brazil, since 1973, in order to investiga...

Clinical TempEval 2017 (SemEval 2017 Task 12) addresses the task of crossdomain temporal extraction from clinical text. We present a system for this task that uses supervised learning for the extraction of temporal expression and event spans with corresponding attributes and narrative container relations. Approaches include conditional random fields and decision tree ensembles, using lexical, s...

oils and fats are substances that are important nutritionally and have important role and impact on human health. energy consumption and preservation in respect of food industry and the increase in the world population and search for new sources of oils and fats to full fill the need of the society particulary the nutritional requirements have introduced this research topic. therefore aim of th...

Museum specimens have provided the material for a large proportion of ancient DNA studies conducted during the last 20 years. However, a major drawback of the genetic analyses is that the specimens investigated are usually damaged, as parts of skin, bone, or a tooth have to be removed for DNA extraction. To get around these limitations, we have developed a nondestructive extraction method for b...

With today's esthetic conscious population, the day of simply extracting a tooth and replacing it at a later date is unacceptable to many patients. It is vital to preserve and maintain the edentulous ridge and normal gingival architecture, which often collapses after tooth extraction. As clinicians, we must have multiple techniques available to preserve or restore the function and esthetics whe...