The Semantic Web (SW) was originally positioned as a combination of Knowledge Representation (KR) and the Web. However, most applications that use SW data today lean more towards the Information Retrieval spectrum. The reason for this is that traditional KR systems are designed to work with datasets that are small, curated, homogeneous, and application-specific. However, the SW is large-scale, ...

The electronic transport of zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) with local Stone-Wales (SW) defects is systematically investigated by first principles calculations. While both symmetric and asymmetric SW defects give rise to complete electron backscattering region, the well-defined parity of the wave functions in symmetric SW defects configuration is preserved. Its signs are changed for the...

Email: [email protected], Email:[email protected], Email: [email protected],Email:[email protected] * Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology M. A. Jinnah Campus, Defence Road off Raiwind Road, Lahore Pakistan. ABSTRACT: Software (SW) development is a very tough task which requires a skilled project leader for its success. If the ...

This paper discusses the substance and potential impact of ethnic block voting in two of Ghana's 10 political regions : Ashanti and Volta. Using the Electoral Commission of Ghana' s dataset for five Presidential election results from 1992 to 2008, the paper confirms ethnic block voting in the two regions. The paper views the phenomenon as detrimental to Ghana ' s evolving democracy as it is a p...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered to be a neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by increased oxidative stress. Medicinal plants, with their antioxidant properties, have been used to cure several human diseases. The aim of the current study was to explore the protective and therapeutic effect of baicalein on AD-induced rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Swiss Wistar rats we...

OBJECTIVE Detection of motor imagery of hand/arm has been extensively studied for stroke rehabilitation. This paper firstly investigates the detection of motor imagery of swallow (MI-SW) and motor imagery of tongue protrusion (MI-Ton) in an attempt to find a novel solution for post-stroke dysphagia rehabilitation. Detection of MI-SW from a simple yet relevant modality such as MI-Ton is then inv...

The anadromous salmonid life cycle includes both fresh water (FW) and seawater (SW) stages. The parr-smolt transformation (smoltification) pre-adapt the fish to SW while still in FW. The osmoregulatory organs change their mode of action from a role of preventing water inflow in FW, to absorb ions to replace water lost by osmosis in SW. During smoltification, the drinking rate increases, in the ...

PURPOSE To examine physiological responses to submaximal field running with changes of direction (COD), and to compare two approaches to assess running economy (RE) with COD, ie, during square-wave (SW) and incremental (INC) exercises. METHODS Ten male team-sport athletes performed, in straight-line or over 20 m shuttles, one maximal INC and four submaximal SW (45, 60, 75 and 90% of the veloc...

Osteoporosis is a metabolic skeletal disease characterized by an imbalance between osteoclast-mediated bone resorption and osteoblast-mediated bone formation. We examined the beneficial effect of shock waves (SW) alone or in combination with raloxifene (RAL) on bone loss in ovariectomized rats (OVX). Sixteen weeks after surgery, OVX were treated for five weeks with SW at the antero-lateral side...