OBJECTIVE Because most children with asthma now use inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), the added benefit of immunotherapy in asthmatic children needs to be examined. We re-assessed the effectiveness of subcutaneous (SCIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) in childhood asthma treatment focusing on studies with patient-relevant outcome measures and children using ICS. METHODS We used the Grading ...

Sentiment analysis with features addition to opinion words has been an appealing area in recent studies. Some research has been conducted for finding relationship between sentiments, topics and temporal sentiment analysis. Nevertheless, Email sentiment analysis received relatively less attention due to the complexity of its structure and indirectness of its language. This paper introduces a sys...

The deceitful nature of irony has not been lost on artists and writers, who have manipulated it for various purposes, most notably, the insertion of novel, dissident ideas (Giora, submitted; Walker 1991). Irony's indirectness acts as a shield which masks a genuine intent deemed risky by the speaker. Consider the following poem by the Israeli poet, Yona Wallach (1997), which has been taken liter...

In this paper, we explore a class of teleoperation problems where a user controls a sophisticated device (e.g. a robot) via an interface to perform a complex task. Teleoperation interfaces are fundamentally limited by the indirectness of the process, by the fact that the user is not physically executing the task. In this work, we study intelligent and customizable interfaces: these are interfac...