This paper proposes an approach to identify word candidates that are not Traditional Chinese, including Japanese names (written in Japanese Kanji or Traditional Chinese characters) and word variants, when doing word segmentation on Traditional Chinese text. When handling personal names, a probability model concerning formats of names is introduced. We also propose a method to map Japanese Kanji...

conclusions in this patient, traditional medicine treatment improved the patient's general well-being, hematopoiesis and portal hypertension. furthermore, it improved his quality of life, although it had no effect on his liver function. we recommend more clinical trials on therapeutic effects of iranian traditional medicine on cryptogenic cirrhosis. introduction there are several disorders that...

BENEDETrO REGUARDATI was a physician and a diplomat.' His medical skill, shared by his younger son, Dionisio, was an inherited calling, for he came from the stock of the Norcini, medicine men, renowned throughout the ages for traditional skill in magic and healing. In his own lifetime Reguardati is said to have 'greatly increased the glory of his family' acquired in the past by his ancestors in...

The Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol has been developed by the major credit card companies in association with some of the top software corporations to secure e-commerce transactions. This paper recalls the basics of the SET protocol and presents a new flaw: a dishonest client may purchase goods from an honest merchant (with the help of another merchant) for which he does not pay. F...

OBJECTIVE To compare variety and diversity patterns and dietary characteristics in Guatemalan women. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two non-consecutive 24-h recalls were conducted in convenience samples of 20 rural Mayan women and 20 urban students. Diversity scores were computed using three food-group systems.Variety and diversity scores and dietary origin and characteristics were compared between set...

A phonetically aware Chinese reader is able to infer the pronunciation of an unknown character from its constituent components; especially the one occupies the right half of the character. According to the statistical model of language learning, such a position strategy is really a bias representation of how Chinese characters representing phonology. This research tested the two positions by co...

“Médecins Sans Frontières make it possible for you to do your job as a doctor, as well as you can, in the most difficult circumstances imaginable,” says Ian Cross, a retired Leicester GP and one of the first MSF doctors to respond to the recent emergency in Bangladesh as more than 600 000 Rohingya, mostly women and children, fled violence in Myanmar. “I saw an appeal for doctors at the end of A...

Richard Davidson was in a lab observing a Buddhist Monk Sink deep into serene meditation when he noticed something that sent his own pulse racing. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, hurriedly double-checked the data streaming to his computer from electrodes attached to the monk's skull, but there was no mistake. Electrical activity in the left pre...