We describe challenges and advantages unique to coreference resolution in the biomedical domain, and a sieve-based architecture that leverages domain knowledge for both entity and event coreference resolution. Domain-general coreference resolution algorithms perform poorly on biomedical documents, because the cues they rely on such as gender are largely absent in this domain, and because they d...

Environmental concern associated with safe handling disposal of corrosive mineral acids such as HF have encouraged the development of safer and non waste producing alternative for application in catalysis. In this sense ,mesoporous materials attracted much attention of catalysis to transform big molecules into its useful products. In the present study we have synthesized, mesoporous Fe-MCM-41an...

A method of sieves using splines is proposed for regularizing maximum-likelihood estimates of power spectra. This method has several important properties, including the flexibility to be used at multiple resolution levels. The resolution level is defined in terms of the support of the polynomial B-splines used. Using a discrepancy measure derived from the Kullback-Leibler divergence of paramete...

The effect of particle size on shear strength of granular materials are investigated using direct shear tests. Small direct shear test (60 mm by 60 mm by 24 mm deep) were conducted for particles passing the sieves with opening size of 2.36 mm. Meanwhile, particles passing the standard 20 mm sieves were tested using large direct shear test (300 mm by 300 mm by 200 mm deep). The large direct shea...

Although extensive research has been done on the distributed system parameter identification problem (see [l] for a recent survey), relatively little attention has been paid, in the stochastic framework, to the problem of estimating unknown parameters that are infinite dimensional. This is not surprising, as Rozanov pointed out in his classic paper [2] that directly estimating infinite-dimensio...

We propose a sheaf-theoretic framework for the representation of a quantum observable structure in terms of Boolean information sieves. The algebraic representation of a quantum observable structure in the relational local terms of sheaf theory effectuates a semantic transition from the axiomatic set-theoretic context of orthocomplemented partially ordered sets, a la Birkhoff and Von Neumann, t...

Conventional methods for separating biomolecules are based on steric interactions between the biomolecules and randomly oriented gel fibers. The recently developed artificial molecular sieves also rely on steric interactions for separation. In this work, we present an experimental investigation of a method that can be used in these sieves to increase separation selectivity and resolution. This ...

The popular method of enumerating the primes is the Sieve of Eratosthenes. It can be programmed very neatly in a lazy functional language, but runs rather slowly. A little-known alternative method is the Wheel Sieve, originally formulated as a fast imperative algorithm for obtaining all primes up to a given limit, assuming destructive access to a bit-array. This article describes functional var...