To extract English name mentions, we apply a linear-chain CRFs model trained from ACE 20032005 corpora (Li et al., 2012a). For Chinese and Spanish, we use Stanford name tagger (Finkel et al., 2005). We also encode several regular expression based rules to extract poster name mentions in discussion forum posts. In this year’s task, person nominal mentions extraction is added. There are two major...

There are many kinds of humidifying devices. We evaluated six humidifiers from the viewpoint of AWLs. The AWL was obtained by calculating the area difference between pressure-volume tracings obtained without and with humidifiers. To examine the effect of pressure monitoring sites on AWL when a humidifier is placed, we measured AWL at three different pressure monitoring sites. The AWL was affect...

Materials Scrap paper torn into 1” x 1” (2.5 cm x 2.5 cm) pieces (paper towels, construc tion paper, and toilet paper work well; a large bowl; a wooden frame 5” x 7” (13 cm x 18 cm) or 8” x 10” (20 cm x 25 cm); nylon or wire screen; staples; a plastic basin at least 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters) in capacity, that is larger than the frame; cloth dishtowels (felt, blotting paper, or newspaper may subs...

BACKGROUND The traditional nasal cannula with bubble humidifier is limited to a maximum flow of 6 L/min to minimize the risk of complications. We conducted a bench study of 2 new Food and Drug Administration-approved nasal cannula/humidifier products designed to deliver at flows> 6 L/min. METHODS Using a digital psychrometer we measured the relative humidity and temperature of delivered gas f...

Lycopene in tomatoes and tomato products is routinely determined by extraction into organic solvents and spectrophotometric quantification. The direct determination of lycopene, by measuring the color or other optical properties of a tomato homogenate, would be an attractive alternative. We have evaluated two instruments for this purpose. The color of tomatoes and tomato products is routinely d...

Ann Macintosh International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, UK [email protected] Eric Welch Department of Public Administration University of Illinois at Chicago 412 South Peoria Street Chicago, IL 60607 [email protected] Suzanne Beaumaster Department of Public Administration, University of La Verne 2220 3rd Street La Verne, CA 91750 beaumast@ul...