This paper advocates the use of ontology-supported website models to provide a semantic level solution for a search agent so that it can provide fast, precise, and stable search results. We have based on the technique to develop a focused crawler, which can benefit both user requests and domain semantics. Equipped with this technique, our focused crawler manifests the following interesting feat...

Ostracism-being excluded and ignored-thwarts satisfaction of four fundamental needs: belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence. The current study investigated whether training participants to focus their attention on the here-and-now (i.e., focused attention) reduces distress from an ostracism experience. Participants were first trained in either focused or unfocused attention, ...

Brain stimulation techniques are important in both basic and clinical studies. Majority of well-known brain stimulating techniques have low spatial resolution or entail invasive processes. Low intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) seems to be a proper candidate for dealing with such deficiencies. This review recapitulates studies which explored the effects of LIFU on brain structures and its func...

We develop a method similar to variable elimination for computing approximate marginals in graphical models. An underlying notion in this method is that it is not always necessary to compute marginals over all the variables in the graph, but focus on a few variables of interest. The Focused Inference (FI) algorithm introduced reduces the original distribution to a simpler one over the variables...