Extensive regions of interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca, IDF) forests in North America are being damaged by drought and western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis). This damage is resulting from warmer and drier summers associated with climate change. To test whether defoliated IDF can directly transfer resources to ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosae) regenerating nea...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetes according to three commonly used operational definitions {World Health Organization (WHO), National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel (NCEP ATP III) and International Diabetes Federation( IDF)}. To evaluate the agreement between these classifications in the Pakistani cohort. METHODS Data was colle...

Bloom’s Taxonomy (BT) is widely used in educational institutions to produce high-quality exam papers evaluate students’ knowledge at different cognitive levels. However, manual question labeling takes a long time, and not all evaluators are familiar with BT. The researchers worked automate the classification process based on BT as solution. Enhancement term weighting one of ways increase accura...

INTRODUCTION Soldiers in field units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are susceptible to injury by various poisonous animals during training and operations. Bites and envenomations by animals such as snakes, scorpions, and spiders can be painful and debilitating, and at times life-threatening. We have examined the extent of exposure of IDF soldiers to snake and arthropod bites and the morbidi...

BACKGROUND The objective of this retrospective records review was to evaluate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and Framingham cardiovascular risk scores in adult inpatients taking antipsychotics. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Hospital records of 62 patients (27 women and 35 men) taking antipsychotics were retrospectively reviewed for: body height and weight, waist circumference, cigarette s...

Low frequency words tend to be rich in content, and vice versa. But not all equally frequent words are equally mean!ngful. We will use inverse document frequency (IDF), a quantity borrowed from Information Retrieval, to distinguish words like somewhat and boycott. Both somewhat and boycott appeared approximately 1000 times in a corpus of 1989 Associated Press articles, but boycott is a better k...