In the last years, basic NLP tasks: NER, WSD, relation extraction, etc. have been configured for Semantic Web tasks including ontology learning, linked data population, entity resolution, NL querying to linked data, etc. Some assessment of the state of art of existing Knowledge Extraction (KE) tools when applied to the Semantic Web is then desirable. In this paper we describe a landscape analys...

The ultimate goal of the application of artificial intelligence in the field of legislation is to support automated modeling of sources of law. These models can help to provide fast, comprehensible and easy access to up-to-date legal knowledge to both civilians and professionals in the legal domain. A first step towards the translation of provisions into formal models is the classification of l...

ions that simplify in the interest of action. The content of the abstractions is the result of socialisation reflecting the ideology of the organisation. Since theories of action are abstractions, it could be expected that they are crude maps of the territory of action. That is why the distinction between theories-in use and espoused theories is not entirely clear. Ryle distinguishes between th...

In the precoloring extension problem (PrExt) a graph is given with some of the vertices having a preassigned color and it has to be decided whether this coloring can be extended to a proper coloring of the graph with the given number of colors. Two parameterized versions of the problem are studied in the paper: either the number of precolored vertices or the number of colors used in the precolo...

The objective of this study is to establish a quantitative method for simultaneous determination of costunolide and dehydrocostuslactone in Xin-ke-shu preparations. The HPLC quantitative analysis was established on a Hypersil BDS column (100 4.6 mm, 2.4 μm, Thermo) with UV detection at 225 nm. The mobile phase was water and methanol (30:70, v/v), and used at a flow rate at 0.5 mL·min 1 . The es...

Variations in the incidence of pregnancy-block (Bruce effect) dependent on the genotype of the male were recorded in female mice belonging to two inbred strains. CBA females invariably responded with a high rate of return of oestrus irrespective of the blocking agent, KE and CBA males, or spayed and masculinized females belonging to these two strains. By contrast, KE females only react strongly...

Background The athlete’s heart is physiologically enlarged with an extraordinary ability to pump large volumes of blood at high heart rates. We hypothesized that efficient filling and emptying is related to the kinetic energy (KE) of intra-cardiac blood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate variations in KE in the four chambers of the heart over the cardiac cycle and compare endu...

Studies were undertaken to appraise the cellular potassium status of children with the nephrotic syndrome, utilizing two techniques: Measurement of total body exchangeable potassium (Ke) by isotope dilution and determination of the potassium content of red blood cells by direct chemical analysis. The Ke values obtained on the nephrotic children are compared to similar data obtained on "hospital...

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