FOIL is an Inductive Logic Programming Algorithm to discover first order rules to explain the patterns involved in a domain of knowledge. Domains as Information Retrieval or Information Extraction are handicaps for FOIL due to the huge amount of information it needs manage to devise the rules. Current solutions to problems in these domains are restricted to devising ad hoc domain dependent indu...

We present a high-throughput roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing process for foil-based polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) chips of excellent optical quality. These disposable, R2R hot embossed microfluidic chips are used for the identification of the antibiotic resistance gene mecA in Staphylococcus epidermidis. R2R hot embossing is an emerging manufacturing technology for polymer microfluidic device...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a method for the direct measurement of electron beam width and distribution at the scattering foil on the carrousel in a medical linear accelerator gantry head, which differs from an existing indirect method for measuring the focal spot size using a camera or metallic slit located outside the gantry head. Methods: The electron beam emitted by the li...

We evaluate the rst order learning system FOIL on a series of text categorization problems. It is shown that FOIL usually forms classiiers with lower error rates and higher rates of precision and recall with a relational encoding than with a propositional encoding. We show that FOIL's performance can be improved by relation selection, a rst order analog of feature selection. Relation selection ...

The fluctuating granularity or "bee swarm" effect seen in highly defocussed transmission electron micrographs is caused by microscopic charge fluctuations in the specimen created by the illuminating beam. In the field of high-resolution single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM), there has been a concern that this fluctuating charge might cause defocus-dependent Thon ring fading which wou...

Self-propagating exothermic formation reactions have been intensively studied in a variety of reactive multilayer foils, such as Ni/Al, Ni/Si, and Nb/Si foils. These foils contain numerous alternating nanoscale layers of elements with large negative heats of mixing. With a small thermal pulse, atoms diffuse normal to the layering and result in a rapid exothermic reaction. The heat produced is c...

We have produced thick-foil and fine-pitch gas electron multipliers (GEMs) using a laser etching technique. To improve production yield we have employed a new material, Liquid Crystal Polymer, instead of polyimide as an insulator layer. The effective gain of the thick-foil GEM with a hole pitch of 140 μm, a hole diameter of 70 μm, and a thickness of 100 μm reached a value of 10 at an applied vo...

OBJECTIVE To present our experience of reconstruction of the nasal septum using perforated and unperforated foils, particularly with respect to functional and aesthetic sequelae. METHODS A retrospective medical record review of a prospectively conducted case series was undertaken of all consecutive patients who underwent septal reconstruction using polydioxanone foil in a 4-year period. Proce...

Magnetic Fano resonances in there-dimensional symmetry broken meta-foils at THz frequencies are theoretically and experimentally studied. Sharp Fano resonances occur due to the interference between different resonances and can be designed by choosing geometric parameters of the meta-foil. At the Fano resonances, the meta-foil supports antisymmetric modes, whereas, at the main resonance, only a ...