Assessment of spinal stiffness is widely used by manual therapy practitioners as a part of clinical diagnosis and treatment selection. Although studies have commonly found poor reliability of such procedures, conflicting evidence suggests that assessment of spinal stiffness may help predict response to specific treatments. The current study evaluated the criterion validity of manual assessments...

We describe the use of a hierarchical topic model for automatically identifying syntactic and lexical patterns that explicitly state ontological relations. We leverage distant supervision using relations from the knowledge base FreeBase, but do not require any manual heuristic nor manual seed list selections. Results show that the learned patterns can be used to extract new relations with good ...

breeders will probably concentrate more effort on other agronomic and chemical characteristics of this plant. A knowledge of the genetic behavior of oil content, protein content and seed coat type should be helpful in the selection of high oil and protein lines. The purpose of this paper is to report inheritance studies of oil content, protein content and rough and smooth seed coat type along w...

Broadcasting of media events is a real-time action demanding reliable just in time decisions based on the current content of incoming video streams and the availability of background material. Multi-stream broadcasting of this type of event thus demand monitoring of multiple streams and background material. Due to the potentially large amount of streams and other available material, manual moni...

distribution of retinal blood vessels (rbvs) in retinal images has an important role in the prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease. therefore, detection of the exact location of rbvs is very important for ophthalmologists. one of the frequently used techniques for extraction of these vessels is region growing-based se...

specification of a lock. What is a suitable abstract specification for a locking structure? To answer this question, we adopt the idea of specifying concurrent data structures via abstract predicates [1] and provide a lock interface in the form of two abstract procedures: lock and unlock. Every data structure, implementing the lock protocol, will require to provide the implementation of these p...

Achieving apical foramen patency through surgical maneuvers during the biomechanical preparation of root canals is a goal sought by several schools. The aim of this study was to evaluate the deformation of the foramen as a result of using stainless steel hand files and nickeltitanium rotary instruments for achieving patency. Forty recently extracted dental roots with single canals were calibrat...