A 67-year-old male with recently diagnosed amyloidosis presented to our hospital with acute bilateral lower extremity deep vein thrombosis. He was diagnosed with amyloid light chain amyloidosis 3 months prior to presentation and had been treated with one cycle of cyclophosphamide bortezomib dexamethasone. On physical examination, he was noted to have mildly enlarged tongue with lateral scallopi...

Highway infrastructure construction is regarded as one of the effective policy tools used to promote flow production factors and upgrade industrial structure in China, it may also be an important precondition improving Cultivated Land Use Efficiency (CLUE). This paper uses a slack-based model (SBM) based on provincial-level panel data from China 2004 2017 measure CLUE. Then dynamic spatial Durb...

-Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) uses the visual features of an image such as color, shape and texture to represent and index the image. In a typical content based image retrieval system, a set of images that exhibit visual features similar to that of the query image are returned in response to a query. CLUE (CLUster based image rEtrieval) is a popular CBIR technique that retrieves images ...

Product feature mining is a key subtask in fine-grained opinion mining. Previous works often use syntax constituents in this task. However, syntax-based methods can only use discrete contextual information, which may suffer from data sparsity. This paper proposes a novel product feature mining method which leverages lexical and contextual semantic clues. Lexical semantic clue verifies whether a...

Multimodal video games can enhance the cognitive skills of children who are blind by allowing interaction with scenarios that would be unfeasible in their everyday life. To assist the identification of relevant interface and interaction issues when children who are blind are playing multimodal video games, we propose a Checklist for Usability Evaluation of Multimodal Games for Children who are ...

This paper examines the use of clue words in argument dialogues. These are special words and phrases directly indicating the structure of the argument to the hearer. Two main conclusions are drawn: I) clue words can occur in conjunction with coherent transmissions, to reduce processing of the hearer 2) clue words must occur with more complex forms of transmission, to facilitate recognition of t...