We investigate different areas of the highdimensional vector space built by the automatic text summarizer HolSum, which evaluates sets of summary candidates using their similarity to the original text. Previously, the search for a good summary was constrained to a very limited area of the summary space. Since an exhaustive search is not reasonable we have sampled new parts of the space using ra...

A metainformatics symposium provides an excellent opportunity to explore, discuss and investigate how configuration management techniques and principles can be expanded into new fields and how it itself can incorporate techniques from other fields. 1. Software Configuration Management For a long time Software Configuration Management (SCM) has been considered an important part of software engin...

Indian economy has been experiencing an average annual rate of growth of around 6 per cent since the early 1980s. Though, moderate compared to the performance of several east Asian economies during the same period, this was quite impressive compared to the performance of Indian economy during the preceding three decades when the average growth logged 3.5 per cent per annum. In terms of per capi...

Infundibular dilatation (ID) can occur at the origin of the intracranial posterior communicating artery. When this type of widening is less than 3 mm in diameter and the ID reaches the posterior communicating artery, it can be called posterior communicating artery infundibular dilatation (Pcom-ID). Currently, Pcom-ID is considered a normal anatomic variation, and the majority of Pcom-IDs are st...

Glasgow Coma Scale score was E3 V1 M6, the blood pressure 130/70 mm Hg, the pulse 80/min, and she was apyretic. The NIH Stroke Scale score was 25. Throat examination revealed a mild inflammation with swelling of the peritonsillar area. Blood examinations were normal. Brain MRI with diffusion-weighted images demonstrated a large cerebral infarction in the left middle cerebral artery territory, M...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Individuals who exhibit large increases in blood pressure and heart rate during mental stress may be at risk for accelerated atherosclerosis. This report evaluates the association between stress-induced hemodynamic responses and carotid atherosclerosis in 254 healthy postmenopausal women. METHODS The magnitude of change in blood pressure and heart rate from rest to publ...

With the advent of generic remote visualization solutions, accessing distant graphics resources from the desktop is no longer restricted to specially tailored applications. However, current solutions still suffer from poor interactivity due to limited network bandwidth and high latency. In this paper we present several improvements to our remote visualization system in order to overcome these d...

Higher education (HE) has the potential to be transformative: for individuals, local communities and for the wider society. The extent to which HE succeeds, however, depends on many factors. At a minimum, for higher education to transform lives, individuals from a wide range of backgrounds must apply to and participate in HE [1]. Certainly this has been the rhetoric of successive UK governments...

in order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, being on demand, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. in addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers, travel agencies and other institutions with other ser...