The increasing need for Decision Support Systems for business enterprises has lead to tremendous growth of Data Warehouses. Within large enterprises number of data sources is increasing; due to which Data Warehouses are getting more and more complex. The ETL componentone of the basic components of data warehousecan be made simpler with the use of Distributed Database technology in the developme...

In this paper we present an overview of a UIMA-based system for Sentiment Analysis in hotel customer reviews. It extracts objectopinion/attribute-polarity triples using a variety of UIMA modules, some of which are adapted from freely available open source components and others developed fully in-house. A Solr based graphical interface is used to explore and visualize the collection of reviews a...

In this work a statistical evaluation of alignment based features for prediction of protein allergenicity was performed. The evaluation consisted of four key components: 1) A new high quality in-house database consisting of 318 allergenic and 1007 non-allergenic amino acid sequences. 2) Three different supervised classification algorithms. 3) A large set of local alignments procedures using a w...

Modern engines are cooled by complex air and liquid cooling systems that manage the flow of high temperature air, gases and coolants, and house critical thermal management components. Plastics, many supplied by DuPont, are playing an increasingly important role in key cooling system parts including thermostat and heater housings, outlet and inlet ports, valves, cross-overs, coolant pumps, water...

An instrumentation design and implementation plan for monitoring the performance of solar heating systems and of their components is described. Specifically the selection of the data acquisition system and of the sensors, the procurement process and installation and calibration principles are discussed in detail. As a practical example, the cost and choice of measurement methods and instruments...

This paper considers the architecture and the behaviour of an intelligent virtual agent, taking care of the cosiness and the health-related features of a family house. The PRE-ThINK architecture is proposed and its components are considered. The dynamics of the decision making process in problem situations arising with the implementation of this architecture is shown. It is assumed that an agen...

According to economic theories, preference for one item over others reveals its rank value on a common scale. Previous studies identified brain regions encoding such values. Here we verify that these regions can valuate various categories of objects and further test whether they still express preferences when attention is diverted to another task. During functional neuroimaging, participants ra...

The region of the Americas has shown extraordinary progress in its fight to interrupt measles transmission. The Pan American Health Organization's recommended strategy includes the following: a 1-time nationwide campaign targeting 1- to 14-year-old children; routine vaccination among 1-year-olds; and nationwide campaigns conducted every 4 years, targeting all 1- to 4-year-olds. Rapid house-to-h...

During the 1930s, Australian architects began to construct miniature scale models employing an increasing variety of materials simulate in detail spatial, visual, and material characteristics proposed buildings. This replacement a long dominant use plain simple occurred during years immediately surrounding Second World War coincided with post-war housing boom. Many Australian’s earliest encount...

Water based paints contain organic solvents and many additives, such as biocides, surfactants, pigments, binders, amines, and monomers. The chemical complexity may introduce new potential health hazards to house painters, in particular irritative and allergic disorders. This study was performed to compare how house painters experience work with water based paints or solvent based paints, and to...