An update summary should provide a fluent summarization of new information on a timeevolving topic, assuming that the reader has already reviewed older documents or summaries. In 2007 and 2008, an annual summarization evaluation included an update summarization task. Several participating systems produced update summaries indistinguishable from humangenerated summaries when measured using ROUGE...

How to improve placement accuracy of needle insertion into liver tissue is of paramount interest to physicians. A robot-assisted system was developed to experimentally demonstrate its advantages in needle insertion surgeries. Experiments of needle insertion into porcine liver tissue were performed with conic tip needle (diameter 8 mm) and bevel tip needle (diameter 1.5 mm) in this study. Manual...

This paper proposes a definition of what it means for one system description language to encode another one, thereby enabling an ordering of system description languages with respect to expressive power. I compare the proposed definition with other definitions of encoding and expressiveness found in the literature, and illustrate it on a case study: comparing the expressive power of CCS and CSP.

Much of the GSS literature comparing GSS groups with manual groups has produced contrarian results. One of the more confusing is that GSS groups have a higher level of non-consensus than manual groups. Lack of consensus in GSS groups is considered to be a negative aspect of GSS. This paper argues that non-consensus is not necessarily harmful, and proposes an alternative interpretation of non-co...

MACC-II,III, Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate, is the current pre-operational Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). It provides data records on atmospheric composition for recent years, present conditions and forecasts (a few days ahead). To support the quality assessment of the CAMS products, the EU FP7 project Network Of ground-based Remote-Sensing Observations (NORS)...

AIM The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a useful framework for the comprehensive description of the patients' functional health. The aim of this study was to identify the ICF categories that represent the patients' problems treated by manual medicine practitioners in order to facilitate its application in manual medicine. This selection of ICF c...

DESCRIPTION A 48-year-old manual laborer presented with persistent, severe painful wrist progressively getting worse. He was actively involved in sports for more than 35 years, which often resulted in him landing on his wrists repeatedly on hard grounds. His radiographs showed arthritic changes involving the wrist joints and carpal bones. His tests were negative for any autoimmune diseases.

Sentiment is central to many studies of communication science, from negativity and polarization in political analyzing product reviews social media comments other sub-fields. This study provides an exhaustive comparison sentiment analysis methods, using a validation set Dutch economic headlines compare the performance manual annotation, crowd coding, numerous dictionaries machine learning both ...