This paper presents recent work using the Chill parser acquisition system to automate the construction of a natural-language interface for database queries. Chill treats parser acquisition as the learning of search-control rules within a logic program representing a shift-reduce parser and uses techniques from Inductive Logic Programming to learn relational control knowledge. Starting with a ge...

Most trees from temperate climates require the accumulation of winter chill and subsequent heat during their dormant phase to resume growth and initiate flowering in the following spring. Global warming could reduce chill and hence hamper the cultivation of high-chill species such as cherries. Yet determining chilling and heat requirements requires large-scale controlled-forcing experiments, an...

We present Chill-Out, an adaptive biofeedback game that teaches relaxation skills by monitoring the breathing rate of the player. The game uses a positive feedback loop that penalizes fast breathing by means of a proportionalderivative control law: rapid (and/or increasing) breathing rates increase game difficulty and reduce the final score of the game. We evaluated Chill-Out against a conventi...

Abstract Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining popularity due to their fuel efficiency and ability reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Significant penetration of EVs with unregulated charging, which can have a substantial impact on power networks. Accurate load predictions, including the charging crucial for ensuring cost‐effective dependable operation systems. In order estimate short‐term in presen...

Air pollution is responsible for many adverse effects on human beings. Thermal discomfort, the other hand, able to overload body and eventually provoke health implications due heat imbalance. Methods: The aim of presented work study behavior two bio-climatic indices statistical characteristics air quality index Sofia city—the capital Bulgaria period 2008–2014. based WRF-CMAQ model system simula...

INTRODUCTION Recent innovation in wetsuit technology has opened the way for year-round surfing/water sport along the UK coast. Resulting exposure to low water temperatures combined with wind chill have been associated with external auditory canal (EAC) exostosis, also known as “surfers’ ear.” This condition is characterized by multiple, bilateral outgrowths of temporal bone (Fig. 1) into the EA...

This study presents the PM10 concentration, respiratory and cardiovascular disease hospital admissions evolution in Ciuc basin for a period of 9 years (2008–2016), taking into consideration different meteorological conditions: boundary layer, lifting condensation level, temperature-humidity index, wind chill equivalent chart index. The showed very fluctuated hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly tend...

Commercial poultry abattoirs were evaluated to determine the efficacy of the multi-hurdle antimicrobial strategy employed to reduce the microbial load present on incoming broilers from the farm. As next generation sequencing (NGS) has been recently employed to characterize the poultry production system, this study utilized 16S High throughput sequencing (HTS) and quantitative plating data to pr...

1. By means of a test method, which is described, the presence or absence of the chill-producing principle in antipneumococcus serum may be determined. 2. This principle may be present in normal blood or serum, homologous as well as heterologous, and the measures employed to obtain an antibody solution are not essential factors in its formation. 3. The chill reaction may be mitigated by the adm...

This paper reviews our recent work on applying inductive logic programming to the construction of natural language processing systems. We have developed a system, Chill, that learns a parser from a training corpus of parsed sentences by inducing heuristics that control an initial overly-general shift-reduce parser. Chill learns syntactic parsers as well as ones that translate English database q...