In this paper we argue that researchers in Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) in Medicine and Pharmacology should consider textual databases as an additional source of knowledge. We describe three areas where medical knowledge extraction from textual databases can be fruitful: finding new applications for existing drugs, evolution of medical knowledge in time, and drug risk assessment. We evaluate...

0022-1694/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.01.018 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: 222 Riley-Robb H NY 14853, United States. Tel.: +1 6072552488; fax: + E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Todd Walt Spatially distributed nonpoint source (NPS) pollution indices are used to identify areas in a watershed where potential pollutant loading coincides w...

introduction more and better production of food is one of the necessities of today's world. since production of agricultural products of one region depends on the air and climatic factors, it is important to examine the role of climate in agriculture (mohammadi et al., 2004: 123). in relation to agroclimatology, numerous studies by different scientists and agricultural climatologists have ...

This paper presents an image blending approach which combines optimal seam finding and transition smoothing for merging a set of aligned source images into a composite panoramic image seamlessly. In this approach, graph cut optimization is used for finding optimal seams in overlapping areas of the source images to create a composite image. If the seams in the composite image are still visible, ...