This article presents a summary of past and current artificial intelligence research within the Computer Science Department at East Texas State University (ETSU). The Computer Science Department at ETSU offers a master of science degree with an emphasis in artificial intelligence. AI research, both past and present, has been funded by a grant from E-Systems, Greenville Division AI research proj...

The European Union upon which this Report focuses is by no means fixed. Negotiations have already begun that may see the EU’s enlargement to include five post-communist countries in Central Europe by the early years of the 21st century, and it is possible that further expansion into Eastern Europe will occur after that. It is often assumed that such a ‘widening’ of EU membership will prevent an...

The EU MULTEXT-East project has produced harmonised language resources for Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovene. In this paper we introduce the MULTEXT-East multilingual corpus, which comprises marked-up texts in the six languages totaling approximately 2 million words and a small speech corpus. The corpus is encoded in SGML, in the TEI-like Corpus Encoding Specification...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular diseases consistently contribute to most morbid and mortal events in most parts of the world. Many of these cardiovascular events are premature in nature, especially in the developing world [2]. These premature deaths of individuals who should be productive to society will in turn confer additional burden to...

I was one of the 3000 doctors who descended on Vancouver, BC, in mid-October 2010 for Family Medicine Forum. My first trip to Vancouver meant there were many sights to see: Stanley Park, Chinatown, the waterfront, and Robson Street were all on my list. On planning my sightseeing, I asked the receptionist at the front desk of our hotel for directions to Chinatown. “Straight up Granville and then...

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-world war II era. It is argued that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an overestimation of the East Germ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing dramatically in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, there are few trials that have determined the effect of antidiabetic treatment in an observational setting in these countries. METHODS This was a noninterventional study performed in Morocco in 2006-2007 and in the Middle East in 2005-2006 to observe the efficacy and sa...

There is mixed evidence regarding the effectiveness of pro-natalist policies in developed countries (McDonald 2007), particularly in lowest-low fertility countries (including Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan in East Asia, and Italy, Spain and Portugal in Europe). Since demographic transitions were generally completed much earlier in Europe, East Asian policy responses to the problem of ...

BACKGROUND The German East-West mortality difference narrowed rapidly after the 1990 unification, particularly for women. We analyse recent trends for women aged 50-89 years and document for the first time lower mortality in the East. We study how smoking contributes to this cross-over. METHODS We analyse mortality by cause for women aged 50-89 over the years 1992-2009 for the East and West G...