This study examined the differences in psychophysiological responses during mental task performance between women with (Group S) and without (Group A) menopausal hot flashes. Twelve women who reported experiencing daily moderate or severe menopausal hot flashes (Group S) and twelve women who reported having no hot flashes (Group A) participated in a mental arithmetic (Task) and a control (Non-t...

the main purpose of the study is determination of the pollutants hazard potential as well as environmental vulnerability of qarah su river. first the most significant pollutant sources in the qarah su river watershed were identified and then accordingly the pollution hazard potential rate was calculated in universal ranking system model setting. then, by generalizing the algebraic sum of the re...

In this paper a numerical method is used to study the unsteady state natural convection heat transfer within a confined porous media with uniform internal heat generation. The governing equations based on the Darcy model and Bossiness approximations are solved, using the finite difference Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) method. The developed program was used to simulate natural convection ...

The ability to access large amounts of de-identified clinical data would facilitate epidemiologic and retrospective research. Previously described de-identification methods require knowledge of natural language processing or have not been made available to the public. We take advantage of the fact that the vast majority of proper names in pathology reports occur in pairs. In rare cases where on...

This paper presents the construction of a data source that supports the automatic generation of cryptic crossword clues in a system called ENIGMA. Cryptic crossword clues have two layers of meaning: a surface reading that appears to be a fragment of English prose, and a puzzle reading that the solver must uncover to solve the clue. The content expressed by the clue, and the input to the generat...

Information processing in auditory and visual modalities interacts in many circumstances. Spatially and temporally coincident acoustic and visual information are often bound together to form multisensory percepts [B.E. Stein, M.A. Meredith, The Merging of the Senses, A Bradford Book, Cambridge, MA, (1993), 211 pp.; Psychol. Bull. 88 (1980) 638]. Shams et al. recently reported a multisensory fis...

Hurricane Andrew blasted through the southern tip of Florida in August 1992, damaging or destroying tens of thousands of homes and forcing hundreds of thousands of persons to move at least temporarily to different places of residence. The hurricane not only disrupted the lives of many Floridians, but destroyed the statistical basis for producing local population estimates in South Florida as we...

Natural language is one of the primary means of communicating spatial information, but existing geographic information retrieval (GIR) facilities are weak in this respect. One of the major challenges in automated interpetation of spatial natural language is how to model the regions implied by spatial expressions. This paper presents a field-based model for representing the vague regions defined...

The construction of lexicons for NLP applications is a potentially very expensive task, but a crucially important one, especially in multilingual applications. The automation of the task from generic data sources or corpora is as yet largely impractical for most applied systems. In this paper we describe a methodology for the semi-automation of the task, used in the CLIME project to develop bil...