Worldwide, sepsis is one of the most common deadly diseases. It is one of the few conditions to strike with equal ferocity in resource-poor areas and in the developed world. Globally, 20 to 30 million patients are estimated to be afflicted every year. Every hour, about 1,000 people and each day around 24,000 people die from sepsis worldwide. Despite accounting for over 8 million lives lost annu...

Why general Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems are not (to the best of our knowledge) being used in real-world applications? In our opinion, some plausible reasons are: • General Word Sense Disambiguation, as an intermediate task, is frequently harder than the final application. This is probably the case of the most commonly mentioned WSD applications: mono and multilingual Information Ret...

Like most natural language disambiguation tasks, word sense disambiguation (WSD) requires world knowledge for accurate predictions. Several proxies for this knowledge have been investigated, including labeled corpora, user-contributed knowledge, and machine readable dictionaries, but each of these proxies requires significant manual effort to create, and they do not cover all of the ambiguous t...

Due to the complexity of natural language, sufficiently reliable Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems are yet to see the daylight in spite of years of work directed towards that goal in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and other related disciplines. We describe how the goal could be approached by applying hybrid methods to information sources and knowledge types. The overal...

we investigated the response of sea buckthorn to drought in a nursery experiment that has been studied for the first time in the world for iranian sea buckthorn. biomass and physiological differences in response to drought were compared between four elaeagnus rhamnoides seedlings inhabited in qazvin province origin seeds of iran. the experimental design included four water regimes including 2, ...

the world sight day (wsd) is held on the 2nd thursday of october to emphasize the importance of sight and impact of vision impairment. this observance is a joint initiative of the international agency for the prevention of blindness (iapb), the world health organization (who) and other international non-governmental organizations.1   the celebration resonates with vision 2020 initiative for the...