This paper addresses the question of how to increase local coherence in summaries of multi-party conversations. Due to the interactive nature of dialogues, local regions of coherence often stretch across diierent speakers, as for instance in question-answer pairs. We present an approach to automatically detect those regions of local coherence and evaluate the resulting summaries' uency and info...

Background: Alzheimer Disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder with a progressive impairment of cognitive function. The pineal gland hormone melatonin (MEL) has been known as a protection agent against AD. However, the effect of melatonin in various doses is inconsistent. Objectives: In this study, we aimed to investigate two doses of MEL on learning and memory in the amyl...

Objective: Zataria multiflora (ZM) is a plant with ethnopharmacological value which was recently tested to reduce symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of ZM essential oil on spatial cognitive and noncognitive behavior, as well as hippocampal tau protein and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) concentrations in ra...

Interruption-based advertising has gained prominence in the online channel. Yet, little attention has been paid to deriving design principles and conceptualizations for online interruption-based advertising. This paper examines three novel design factors related to this phenomenon, namely, exposure timing, advertising intent and brand image. Exposure timing pertains to the time by which the ad ...

This paper proposes a novel approach for identifying risks in executable business processes and detecting them at run-time. The approach considers risks in all phases of the business process management lifecycle, and is realized via a distributed, sensor-based architecture. At design-time, sensors are defined to specify risk conditions which when fulfilled, are a likely indicator of faults to o...

We study the chemical evolution of population I and population II secondaries in cata-clysmic variables (CVs) assuming that during nova explosions a part of the high metal-licity nova ejecta is intercepted by the secondary and mixed into its convective envelope. We derive analytic expressions for the chemical composition of the secondary's envelope as a function of the chemical composition of t...

Background: Alcohol dependence (AD) is a major reason for morbidity and visits to emergency medical settings. However, the detection of AD is often difficult or overlooked. This study aimed to develop a brief screening questionnaire in Hindi language for detection of AD in an emergency medical setting. Methods:  The authors in consultation devised a set of questions related to AD in the Hindi l...