Abstract Background A microsponge delivery system (MDS) is an innovative and unique way of delivering drugs in a structured manner. Using drug delivery, regulated may now be achieved quickly easily. Main body MDS comprises porous microspheres ranging size from 5 to 300 microns, with large structure very tiny spherical shape. normally used deliver via topical channels, but they have recently sho...

We describe in this paper the SIMILAR corpus which was developed to foster a deeper and qualitative understanding of word-to-word semantic similarity metrics and their role on the more general problem of text-to-text semantic similarity. The SIMILAR corpus fills a gap in existing resources that are meant to support the development of text-to-text similarity methods based on word-level similarit...

Modeling the Internet topology is an important open problem that has attracted researchers attention in the past few years. This report presents an overview of the different research activities related to Internet characterization at the AS level. It describes the different methods used to measure the Internet AS topology, as well as some of the recent visualization and modeling techniques. It ...

Supply/Demand networks are undergoing rapid changes with the increasing use of dynamic rather than static information. This paper discusses the idea of intelligent products as both producers and consumers of dynamic information, before describing research in progress to develop a suitable simulation environment for experimenting with the intelligent product concept. The research will briefly co...

Modern society is critically dependent on the services provided by engineered infrastructure networks. When natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Sandy) occur, the ability of these networks to provide service is often degraded because of physical damage to network components. One of the most critical of these networks is the electrical distribution grid, with medium voltage circuits often suffering...

In this paper, we present a survey of the development of the technique of argument diagramming covering not only the fields in which it originated informal logic, argumentation theory, evidence law and legal reasoning – but also more recent work in applying and developing it in computer science and artificial intelligence. Beginning with a simple example of an everyday argument, we present an a...