his limitations. Yet, the malaria problem would prove to be a task worthy of Ross's relentless search for approval. Quite apart from being a stubborn obstacle to British colonialism in India and elsewhere, the plasmodia had become an international phenomenon. It offered Ross a stage for recognition. It also brought Ross and Manson together. While on furlough in the spring of 1894, Ross solicite...

The paper presents a new statistical method, for parsing discourse. A parse of discourse is defined as a set of semantic dependencies among sentences tha t make up the discourse. A collection of news articles from a Japanese economics daily are manually marked for dependency and used as a training/ test ing corpus. We use a C4.5 decision tree method to develop a model of sentential dependencies...

not good because of the recurrent inflammatory disorder. You cannot preserve. Dr Hraska: Okay. Is mechanical aortic valve replacement only, without root replacement, justifiable when the long-term future of the neoaortic root is unclear? Can you comment on that? Dr Alsoufi: This is definitely a good question, and I am already trying to get echocardiograms in those patients who had the aortic va...

ROSS, an object-oriented language that has evolved over the last two years as part of the knowledge-based simulation research at Rand [1,3,6,7,8,91. We describe a program called SWIRL designed for simulating military air battles between offensive and defensive forces. SWIRL is written in an object-oriented language (ROSS) where the knowledge base consists of a set of objects and their In the fo...

OBJECTIVES The Ross procedure is the preferred aortic valve replacement (AVR) choice in small children. Nonetheless, it is a complicated surgery and there are concerns that subsequent cardiac reoperations are exceptionally complex and associated with high morbidity and mortality. We examine the surgical spectrum and report outcomes of cardiac reoperations in patients who had undergone the Ross ...

The concentration and size distribution of microparticles are measured on the Ross Ice Shelf at three sites : Q-13, base camp, and J-9. Results from the analysis of 2 611 samples representing the 100 m core from site Q-13 are presented. Increasing particle concentrations since 1800 are interpreted as a reflection of the gradual movement of the Q-13 drill site northward toward the Ross Sea under...