BACKGROUND Secondhand smoke poses a serious health hazard. In Israel the recent passage of a law designed to protect people from secondhand smoke in public places was greeted with controversy. The debate is taking place without data on actual levels of pollution for secondhand smoke in public places. OBJECTIVES To estimate levels of small respirable suspended particles, atmospheric markers of...

BACKGROUND/AIM Consequences of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury include worse patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and a decrease in activity level. Muscle function can be improved by targeted exercise. Our aims were to investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among lower extremity muscle function and PROs after ACL injury. METHODS Fifty-four participants (15 women, mea...

RSP (Radioecological Software Package) is an interactive support system that simulates the behaviour of radionuclides in semi-natural environments and the consequences on the population in terms of the external exposure. RSP consists of three modules: the first one, soil mobility, simulates the vertical transport of radionuclide in soil using the mathematical model RABES. The second module, soi...

The activity of V1 neurons evoked by stimuli within the classical receptive field (CRF) is known to be modulated by stimuli in the surrounding field, the extra-receptive field (ERF). By varying the relative spatial phase (RSP) between a central grating presented in the CRF and a surround grating in the ERF, we studied the contextual modulation in V1 neurons of alert monkeys (Macaca mulata). Res...

Task-oriented dialogue systems depend on state tracking to keep track of the intentions users in course conversations. Although recent models exhibit good performance, errors predicting value each slot at current turn these are easily carried over next turn, and unlikely be revised resulting error propagation. In this paper, we propose a revisable prediction for tracking, which constructs two-s...

This is the supplementary material for the submission to NIPS 2007, entitled “Cooled and Relaxed Survey Propagation for MRFs”. The purpose of this material is to prove the update equations of Relaxed Survey Propagation (RSP) in the main paper.

Querying and reasoning over RDF streams are two increasingly relevant areas in the broader scope of processing structured data on the Web. While RDF Stream Processing (RSP) has focused so far on extending SPARQL for continuous query and event processing, stream reasoning has concentrated on ontology evolution and incremental materialization. In this paper we propose a different approach for que...

Many body functions, including; Blood Pressure (BP), Heart Rate (HR) and Respiration Rate (RSP) are controlled by Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). This part of nervous system can not be controlled voluntarily, but is influenced by external stimuli and cognitive states of an individual. The qualitative changes in these physiological variables (BP, HR and RSP) with respect to change in human cogni...

The Restricted Shortest Path (RSP) problem, also known as the Delay-Constrained Least-Cost (DCLC) problem, is an NP-hard bicriteria optimization problem on graphs with n vertices and m edges. In a graph where each edge is assigned a cost and a delay, the goal is to find a min-cost path which does not exceed a delay bound. In this paper, we present improved approximation schemes for RSP on sever...