In recent years, a growing interest has been given to trajectory data mining applications that permit to support mobility prediction with the aim of anticipating or pre-fetching possible services. Proposed approaches typically consider only spatio-temporal information provided by collected trajectories. However, in some scenarios, such as that of tourist supporting, semantic information which e...

Recent research in the U.S. and Europe indicates that viewing red enhances men’s attraction to women. This red effect may reflect a basic predisposition shared across cultures, and may thus represent a functional human universal – that is, a psychological process that carries the same meaning in all human societies (Norenzayan & Heine, 2005). We conducted a first test of this universality hypot...

A main issue in the field of artificial intelligence and law is the translation of source of law that are written in natural language into formal models of law. This article describes a step in that transformation: the creation of models for individual sentences in a source of law. The approach uses a natural language parse to analyse the sentence, and then translates the resulting parse tree t...

Data on pyloric stenosis are analysed by multiple threshold methods that incorporate the sex effect. The polygenic model of inheritance is rejected; the single major locus model can only account for 37% of the cases having a genetic aetiology, requiring an environmental effect to account for the remainder of the cases. A maternal-fetal interaction for gastrin production and sensitivity is postu...

We present a system that uses evolutionary optimization to suggest new story-world events that, if added to an existing interactive story, would most improve the average interactive experience, according to author-supplied criteria. In doing so, we aim to apply some of the ideas from drama-managed storytelling, such as authorial aesthetic control, in an unguided setting more akin to emergent st...

I read with interest the paper by Uriarte et al, in which the authors conclude that ‘Fgf15 is a key mediator of the liver growth-promoting effects of bile acids.’ There are reasons to question the conclusions drawn in this paper. Due to space limit I forward three issues. (1) Fgf15 exerts its effects via FGFR4 as mentioned. The authors have not recognised a report by Yu et al showing that delet...

the following may be of interest to the readers of the journal. Mr. M., aged about 40, in robust health before his illness, had been suffering from fever with rigors and pain in the hepatic region. This continued for a period of about 2 to 3 months, with occasional remissions of fever and pain. Lately, he began to have paroxysms of shivering with fever and this was followed by profuse sweating....

A calculation by E.D.Jones of the cosmological mass scale for the phase transition from pre-geometric to physical description as about 5 Tev could be interpreted as a prediction of an effective threshold for novel physical effects in particle-particle collisions. PACS numbers: 95.35.+d, 98.80 Qc, 98.80 Bp To be submitted to Physical Review D as a brief report ∗Work supported by Department of En...

Clincal Image Inferior Myocardial Infarction Involving Right Ventricle: Electrocardiogram Suggesting Pulmonary Embolism Infarto inferior y de ventrículo derecho: electrocardiograma de un tromboembolismo pulmonar Manuel Fernández-Anguita, Miguel Corbí-Pascual, Arsenio Gallardo-López a Servicio de Cardiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Calle Hermanos Falcó, 37, 02006 Albace...

Oral cancer is one of the most common cancers and it constitutes a major health problem particularly in developing countries. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) represents the most frequent of all oral neoplasms. Several risk factors have been well characterized to be associated with OSCC with substantial evidences. The etiology of OSCC is complex and involves many factors. The most clearly de...