It is an experimental fact that atmospheric, solar, reactor and accelerator neutrinos change flavour. The present data [1] give the solar lepton mixing angle sin θ12 = 0.32 with a relative error about of 25%(@3σ), the atmospheric angle sin θ23 = 0.5 with a relative error about of 34%(@3σ) and sin θ13 ≤ 0.05(@3σ). The complex phase has not been measured. Precise future data might confirm the max...

In this paper we consider a level set equation, the solution of which (called level set function) is used to capture a moving interface denoted by Γ. We assume that this level set function is close to a signed distance function. For discretization of the linear hyperbolic level set equation we use standard polynomial finite element spaces with SUPG stabilization combined with a CrankNicolson ti...

Before discussing the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of this disease, clarification of some of the pertinent terminological definitions may be in order. Hypertrophic emphysema is the most commonly used designation of this disease. Also, it is known under the following names: genuine emphysema, idiopathic emphysema, diffuse vesicular emphysema, obstructive emphysema, dystrophlc emphysema, pul...

Our question answering system was built with a number of priorities in mind. First, we wanted to experiment with natural language processing (NLP) technologies such as shallow parsing, named entity tagging, and coreference chaining. We felt that the small number of terms in the questions coupled with the short length of the answers would make NLP technologies clearly beneficial, unlike previous...

2 Principal contact: This year our primary goal was to improve on the performance of our TREC-8 system. In addition to improving the system directly, we worked on a number of tools to aid our development. We continued our work on a tool for automatic scoring of system responses, a “judge” program. We designed a tool for doing regression testing of question answering systems. W...

A 43-year-old woman had a pulmonary tumor detected by a computed tomographic (CT) scan during follow-up for breast cancer 15 years previously. The tumor showed a solid mass measuring 42 × 32 × 12 mm in extensive contact with the pleura of the apex of the left upper lobe. The edge of the tumor was relatively well-defined with an irregular shape, and a bubblelike area was seen within it. The long...

There is one concept in medicine which is prominent, the symptom. The omnipresence of the symptom seems, however, not to be reflected by an equally prominent curiosity aimed at investigating this concept as a phenomenon. In classic, traditional or conventional medical diagnostics and treatment, the lack of distinction with respect to the symptom represents a minor problem. Faced with enigmatic ...

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

Combination of Adoptive Network based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and subtractive clustering (SC) has been used for estimation of deformation modulus (Em) and rock mass strength (UCSm) considering depth of measurement. To do this, learning of the ANFIS based subtractive clustering (ANFISBSC) was performed firstly on 125 measurements of 9 variables such as rock mass strength (UCSm), deformati...

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place - life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education - learning skills for traditional academia and to foster ha...