The Mesozoic, mid-Cretaceous (Barremian to Cenomanian) deposits of southern Croatia comprise a succession of shallow tropical-water, inner-platform deposits that formed on a Bahama-type isolated Adriatic carbonate platform in the Dinarides. This succession is dominated by benthic foraminifers and dasycladalean algae, and is exposed in a nearly continuous outcrop section on the islands and along...

Atmospheric hyperoxia, with pO(2) in excess of 30%, has long been hypothesized to account for late Paleozoic (360-250 million years ago) gigantism in numerous higher taxa. However, this hypothesis has not been evaluated statistically because comprehensive size data have not been compiled previously at sufficient temporal resolution to permit quantitative analysis. In this study, we test the hy...

Background Recent advances in blood-based biomarkers have shown promising abilities to estimate brain pathological statuses related amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, phosphorylated tau and neurodegeneration using minimally invasive methods. The objective of this study was evaluate the potential ATN classification, by analyzing relevance plasma imaging biomarkers. Method There were 161 subjects, consis...

This paper describes the THK system that participated in the BC subtask, MC subtask, ExamBC subtask and UnitTest in NTCIR-10 RITE-2. Our system learns plausible transformations of pairs of Text t1 and Hypothesis t2 only from semantic labels of the pairs using a discriminative probabilistic model combined with the framework of Natural Logic. The model is trained so as to prefer alignments and th...

The main objective of a personalized recommender system is to filter and present (recommend) to the user the most appropriate items according to his preferences. In many Case Based Recommendation systems, thk goal is achieved by using weighted similarity measures. Thus, weighting the features, i.e. describing the items to be recommended, is a key issue in such systems. In this paper, we propose...

” A N D LISTS THK EIGHT VALL~ESderived by the author in an earlier work. Gives a brief history of the evolution of human-to-human reference service and discusses its future. Relates each of the author’s eight values to the practice of human-to-human reference. Concludes with some thoughts on librail. instruction. In a hubristic act in my book Our End71ri179 IhZzieJ (Gorman, 2000), I formulated ...

The relationship between capsular polysaccharide types 5 and 8 and resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to oxacillin was studied with a collection of 406 clinical isolates from six French hospitals. Of 175 type 5 isolates, 84 (48%) were resistant to oxacillin. In contrast, only 8 of 160 type 8 isolates (5%) and 5 of 71 nontypeable isolates (7%) were resistant to oxacillin. Therefore, capsular ty...