Argyrophilic staining of nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR) has been considered to be useful in the diagnosis and prognostic evaluation of different cutaneous tumors. In order to evaluate the role of the AgNOR technique in discriminating aggressive from non-aggressive basal cell carcinoma (BCC), paraffin-embedded histologic sections from 30 cases of aggressive BCC (BCC2) and 30 cases of n...

Klatskin-type cholangiocarcinoma is a rare tumor, bearing a very poor prognosis: at diagnosis, most patients can only undergo palliation. Evaluation of outcome, mean survival and quality of life was performed in patients with unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma treated with multimodality approach in comparison with surgical palliation, biliary stenting or brachytherapy alone. Twenty-six patie...

Due to the availability of technology, there has been a shift from traditional assessment methods to e-assessment methods designed to support learning. With this development there is a need to address the suitability and effectiveness of the e-assessment interface. One development in the e-assessment interface has been the use of the multimodal metaphor. However, the associated effectiveness of...

A simulator study was conducted to compare 16 younger (mean age 22 years) and 16 older (mean age 68 years) drivers’ ratings of workload (time, visual, psychological stress) and performance of navigation and button-pushing (identi® cation of vehicle or road hazards) tasks under both highand low-load driving conditions when simple or complex advanced traveller information (ATI) was presented visu...

We introduce the notion of symmetric multimodality for dialogue systems in which all input modes (eg. speech, gesture, facial expression) are also available for output, and vice versa. A dialogue system with symmetric multimodality must not only understand and represent the user's multimodal input, but also its own multimodal output. We present the SmartKom system, that provides full symmetric ...

effects of oral administration of testosterone and fluoxetine exposure on aggressive behavior of the fighting fish, betta splendens , were investigated. testosterone diluted in ethanol and sprayed on pre-weighted pellet to achieve concentrations of 0, 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg of hormone in food. two main behaviors were recorded: the time in front of mirror and duration of the gill flaring using a mirro...

Sharing common understanding of the structure of information among people, enable reuse of domain ontology and make domain assumption explicit are the reasons why we develop the multimodality image retrieval system. Sport News Ontology is the explicit formal specification of terms in the sport news domain and relation among them. We incorporate the terms with the “garden resource” in DBpedia to...

In a Bayesian analysis of nite mixture models, the symmetry and multi-modality of the posterior distribution of the parameters makes it diicult to interpret or summarize. The common practice of making parameters identii-able by imposing artiicial constraints biases parameter estimates and generally fails to solve the problem of multimodality. We suggest a solution which involves permuting sampl...

In the context of pervasive environments, multimodal interaction plays a pivotal role because multimodality provides flexibility and naturalness for interaction. The challenge of multimodal interfaces in pervasive environments is then to build reliable and autonomic processing systems able to analyze and understand multiple interaction modalities and reconfigure itself in real-time. Addressing ...