Cladistic analysis of the European species ofPolistes is used to investigate the evolution .of social parasitism in the genus. The three species of social parasites (formerly the genus Sulcopolistes) are all inquilines: lacking a worker caste, and dependent on uSUIping the colony of a host species to obtain a worker force. El:vlERY'S Rule states that social parasites are more closely related to...

We propose a novel scheme for using supervised learning for function based classification of objects in 3D images. During the learning process, a generic multi-level hierarchical description of object classes is constructed. The object classes are described in terms of functional components. The multi-level hierarchy is designed and constructed using a large set of signature-based reasoning and...

The reversibility of ischemia-induced changes of extracellular K(+) concentration ([K(+)](o)), resting membrane potential (E(M)), and passive cable-like properties, ie, extracellular resistance and cell-to-cell electrical coupling, and their relationship to recovery of conduction and contraction is described in 25 reperfused rabbit papillary muscles. No-flow ischemia caused extracellular K(+) a...

Although herpes simplex virus (HSV) replicates in noncycling as well as cycling cells, including terminally differentiated neurons, it has recently been shown that viral replication requires the activities of cellular cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) (L. M. Schang, J. Phillips, and P. A. Schaffer, J. Virol. 72:5626-5637, 1998). Since we were unable to isolate HSV mutants resistant to two cdk inh...

Actual sewage treatment relies on conventional activated sludge (CAS), which reaches sufficiently low carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus effluent levels, but is not cost-effective, hardly achieves recovery, requires electricity equivalent to a fossil fuel consumption of 85 kWh per inhabitant equivalent (IE) per year and has an operational CO2 footprint of 80 kg CO2 IE year. Projected water and pho...

Infective Endocarditis (IE) is an endocardial infection usually caused by bacteria that affects not only the native heart valves but also, with increasing frequency intravascular implanted devices and congenital heart diseases. Despite medical advances, IE remains a life-threatening disease with substantial morbidity and mortality. In Africa, its diagnosis and treatment are still a major challe...

This manuscript gives two possible rewritings from the mcsie system input language to hex programs, and compares them with respect to efficiency of evaluation in dlvhex.

We present an information extraction system for patient records which has been submitted to the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2014 Task 2. The task was information extraction from clinical text in terms of a disease/disorder template filling process. The system uses a lexicalized parser to annotate grammatical relations between diseases, disorders, and other constituents on a sentence level...

This paper reports on the development of thee Japanese Information Extraction system and the Japanese Information Extraction customization tool. These systems are based on the corresponding English systems, the Proteus Information Extraction system (Grishman 97) and the Proteus Extraction Tool (Yangarber and Grishman 97), developed at NYU. In this paper, we will, in particular, describe the dif...