KES-2006, the tenth KES International Conference in Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, was held in Bournemouth, England from October 9 to 11 2006. This special issue of the KES Journal comprises the extended version of the six best papers selected by the conference programme committee. The KES International organization is aimed at facilitating and supporting r...

Radiation damage to the retinal vascular system has been held responsible for small vessel occlusion, neovascularization, haemorrhages, and exudates when the whole eye has been involved during the course of therapeutic irradiation for the treatment of retinoblastoma (Martin and Reese, I945; Howard, i966), basal cell carcinoma of eyelids or nose, and carcinoma of the paranasal sinuses (Perrers-T...

(Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong) (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong) (Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong) (China Merchants Bank, Central, Hong Kong) + Corresponding author: Phone: +852 2788 9684, Fax: +852 2788 8614, E-mail: [email protected]...

Reliable Data Aggregation for Real-time Queries in Wireless Sensor Systems Kam-Yiu Lam, Henry C.W. Pang, Sang H. Son and BiYu Liang Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon HONG KONG Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlotte, Virginia...

That the gonads may be involved in creatine and creatinine metabolism was indicated when Rose (1) discovered a persistent creatinuria in children before puberty. After puberty the creatinuria ceases in boys, but continues to a lesser extent or in a cyclic manner in girls and women. In support of this finding, Read (2), McNeal (3), Remen (4), Btihler (5), Pizzolato and Beard (6), and others have...

1. Nayot D, Kwon JS, Carey MS, Driedger A. Does preoperative positron emission tomography with computed tomography predict nodal status in endometrial cancer? A pilot study. Curr Oncol 2008;15:123–5. 2. Chee KG, Nguyen DV, Brown M, Gandara DR, Wun T, Lara PN Jr. Positron emission tomography and improved survival in patients with lung cancer: the Will Rogers phenomenon revisited. Arch Intern Med...

The study of subblock-constrained codes has recently gained attention due to their application in diverse fields. We present bounds on the size and asymptotic rate for two classes of subblock-constrained codes. The first class is binary constant subblock-composition codes (CSCCs), where each codeword is partitioned into equal sized subblocks, and every subblock has the same fixed weight. The se...

1Oogachaga Counselling and Support, Singapore 2National Skin Centre, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Mr Bryan Choong Chee Hong, 41A Mosque Street Singapore 059519. Email: [email protected] Introduction Earlier this year, the American Psychological Association passed a resolution endorsing its support for a combination approach towards human immunodefi ciency virus (HIV) prevention, one ...

There is a well-known theory of differentiable cohomology H diff (G, V ) of a Lie group G with coefficients in a topological vector space V on which G acts differentiably. This is developed by Blanc in [Bl]. It is very desirable to have a theory of differentiable cohomology for a (possibly infinite-dimensional) Lie group G, with coefficients in an arbitrary abelian Lie group A, such that the gr...