1) Out corpus of descriptive text contains a significant number of long-distance pronominal references (8.4% of the total). In order to account for how these pronouns are interpreted, we re-examine Grosz and Sidner's theory of the attentional state, and in particular the use of the global focus to supplement centering theory. Our corpus evidence concerning these long-distance pronominal referen...

Heterogeneous wireless sensor network consists of wireless sensor nodes with different abilities, such as different computing power and different initial energy. We present in this paper a new scheme for maximizing heterogeneous WSN lifetime. The proposed scheme employs two types of sensor nodes that are named (consistent with IEEE 802.15.4 standard) Full Function Device (FFD) and Reduced Funct...

An electrostatic induction technique was used to determine both drop size distribution and concentration of bacteria in the film drops produced by bubbles bursting at the surface of a suspension of Serratia marcescens. Film drops are produced from the collapse of the thin film of water that just before bursting separates the air in the bubble from the atmosphere. Bubbles of 1.7-mm diameter prod...

Article history: Received 23 January 2010 Received in revised form 30 October 2010 Accepted 2 November 2010 Available online 10 November 2010 Data publishing has generated much concern on individual privacy. Recent work has shown that different background knowledge can bring various threats to the privacy of published data. In this paper, we study the privacy threat from the full functional dep...

a comparative analysis of sociological situation and cinematic representation in iranian movies from the 80s: a case study of deep breathmaryam sadat naghibi esfahani, hasan ali pourmand, mahdi keshavarz afsharma student, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modar...

PURPOSE Localization of target anatomy and critical structures defined in preoperative MR images can be achieved by means of multi-modality deformable registration to intraoperative CT. We propose a symmetric diffeomorphic deformable registration algorithm incorporating a modality independent neighborhood descriptor (MIND) and a robust Huber metric for MR-to-CT registration. METHOD The method...

We propose a method for visualizing a set of related metabolic pathways across organisms using 2 1/2 dimensional graph visualization. Interdependent, twodimensional layouts of each pathway are stacked on top of each other so that biologists get a full picture of subtle and significant differences among the pathways. The (dis)similarities between pathways are expressed by the Hamming distances o...

This is continuation of experimental work at U.C. Irvine on fan flow deflection (FFD) [1]. The working principle of FFD is reduction of the convective Mach number of turbulent eddies that generate intense downward and sideward sound radiation. In a coaxial separate-flow turbofan engine this is achieved by tilting in the general downward direction, by a few degrees, the bypass (secondary) plume ...