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BACKGROUND The concept of syndromes (zhengs) is unique to Chinese medicine (CM) and difficult to measure. Expert consensus is used as a gold standard to identify zhengs and evaluate the accuracy of existing diagnostic scales for zhengs. But, the use of expert consensus as a gold standard is problematic because the diagnosis of zhengs by expert consensus is not 100 % accurate. This study aimed t...

Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) samples defiled, extraction of microscopic images, collection site light not equal and images collected uneven illumination point which can make the acquisition of CHM microscopic images subject to different unfavorable factors. Those often make microscopic images of CHM become blurred or introducing noise. In this paper, some restoration methods for the microscopi...

white matter lesions (wmls) are commonly observed in strokepatients with small vessel disease (svd) and are thought toresult from a progressive, irreversible disease process followingarteriolosclerosis. in this study, we report a case of partialdisappearance of wmls 1 year after a lacunar stroke in a69-year-old man with evidence of svd. we also discuss possiblemechanisms associated with this ob...

a 3*2*2 factorial experiment was conducted to study the effect of feeding whole wheat (0, 10, and 20%), a microbial enzyme source (arabino-xylanase based enzyme for wheat at 0% and 0.1%) and 0% or 1% insoluble grit (number 3 layer size) on the performance of white leghorn hens at 19 to 54 weeks of age. each dietary treatment was replicated four times with ten hens, housed two to a cage, eac...

One of the latest trends is marked by the emergence of so-called web services (WS). These allow rapid application development, characterized by a low cost and an easy distributed application composing. The OASIS WS-BPEL 2.0 standard is an XML-based language which allows to specify the behavior of a business process as a WS which interacts with other external WS. WS-BPEL is a challenge for tradi...

For digital rights management (drm) software implementations incorporating cryptography, white-box cryptography (cryptographic implementation designed to withstand the white-box attack context) is more appropriate than traditional black-box cryptography. In the whitebox context, the attacker has total visibility into software implementation and execution. Our objective is to prevent extraction ...

Introduction Post-rehabilitative formal control mechanisms and conventional treatments within the justice system have been shown to be clearly ineffectual in developing pro-social behaviour of adolescents (Coates, 1981; O'Connor & Sweetapple, 1988). It has been well established that formal control mechanisms with by-products of labelling (McCord, 1978) and netwidening (Kleln, 1979; Pink & White...

In the paper we consider intensional aspects of the notion of data. We advocate an idea that traditional set-theoretic platform should be enhanced with new data structures having explicit intensional component. Among such data we distinguish the notions of preset and nominat. Intuitively, presets may be considered as collections of “black boxes”, nominats may be considered as collections of “gr...

We extend the SimRank algorithm (Jeh and Widom 2002) to efficiently examine the similarity of charge pairs in a large dataset of men arrested in 2013. We compare computed SimRank scores of charge pairs within black and white arrestees and evaluate how these measures differ from the more traditional measure of similarity of Chi-squared residuals, which does not account for network structure. Our...