Results Minor device-related artifacts were observed, enabling reliable delineation of endocardial borders in all patients at FU. Figure 1) demonstrates typical device-related artifacts 6 month after implantation (A) in comparison with a corresponding pre-implantation image (B). Mean intraand inter-observer biases were 0.9±2.0 and 1.6 ±2.9 % for LV end-diastolic (LVEDV), 0.3±4.7 and 1.8 ±6.4 % ...

Dengue viruses (DENVs) and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) are closely related mosquito-borne flaviviruses that cause very high global disease burdens. Although cross-reactivity and cross-protection within flaviviruses have been demonstrated, the effect of JEV vaccination on susceptibility to DENV infection has not been well elucidated. In this study, we found that vaccination with the JEV in...

The demand for interfaces that allow users to interact with computers in an intuitive, effective, and efficient way is increasing. Question Answering (QA) systems address this need by answering questions posed by humans using knowledge bases. In recent years, many QA systems and related components have been developed both by practitioners and the research community. Since QA involves a vast num...

Chagas disease is a pleomorphic clinical entity that has several unique features. The aim of this study is to summarise some of the recent contributions from our research group to knowledge of the morbidity and prognostic factors in Chagas heart disease. A retrospective study suggested that ischaemic stroke associated with left ventricular (LV) apical thrombi is the first clinical manifestation...

Given the large number of Semantic Web Services that can be created from online sources by using existing annotation tools, expressive formalisms and efficient and scalable approaches to solve the service selection problem are required to make these services widely available to the users. In this paper, we propose a framework that is grounded on logic and the Local-As-View approach for represen...

This paper describes the generation and logical optimisation of views in the AutoMed heterogeneous data integration framework, which is based on the use of reversible schema transformation sequences called both as view (BAV) rules. We show how views can be generated from such sequences, for global as view (GAV), local as view (LAV) and GLAV query processing. We also present techniques for optim...

This paper describes view generation and view optimisation in the AutoMed heterogeneous data integration framework. In AutoMed, schema integration is based on the use of reversible schema transformation sequences. We show how views can be generated from such sequences, for global-as-view (GAV), local-as-view (LAV) and GLAV query processing. We also present techniques for optimising these genera...