Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agricultural Studies, Sudan University of Science and Technology, P. O. Box 71, Khartoum, North Sudan. 2 Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Department of Oral Medicine and Periodonto...

Text mining involves the use of statistical and machine learning techniques to learn structural elements of text in order to search for useful information in previously unseen text. The need for these techniques have emerged out of the rapidly growing information era. Token identification is an important component of any text mining tool. The accomplishment of this task enhances the function of...

BACKGROUND Asthma is a chronic disease which places considerable economic, social and public health burdens on the society. Education, occupation and income are the most widely used indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). Studies have shown increased asthma hospital admissions for those who are materially deprived and increased asthma severity in low social class groups. The aim of this study...

Background Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder with increased bone fragility and low bone mass, the incidence has been estimated at 1 in per 10000-20000 births, however milder forms of OI are probably under recognized. Cyclical intravenous therapy with the biphosphonate pamidronate has been reported to be beneficial in children and adolescents with moderate to severe forms of OI.

With the emergence of software delivery platforms such as Microsoft’s .NET, code compression has become one of the core enabling technologies strongly affecting system performance. In this paper, we present PPMexe a set of compression mechanisms for executables that explores their syntax and semantics to achieve superior compression rates. The fundament of PPMexe is the generic paradigm of pred...