The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and glioma symposium was convened on April 17, 2011 in Washington, DC, and was attended by oncologists and virologists involved in studying the relationship between HCMV and gliomas. The purpose of the meeting was to reach a consensus on the role of HCMV in the pathology of gliomas and to clarify directions for future research. First, the group summarized data t...

This paper describes a system for semantic role labeling for the CoNLL2005 Shared task. We divide the task into two sub-tasks: boundary recognition by a general treebased predicate-argument recognition algorithm to convert a parse tree into a flat representation of all predicates and their related boundaries, and role labeling by a consensus model using a pattern-matching framework to find suit...

Iodine-based products are antibacterial. The small iodine molecular size is ideally suited to treat surface critical colonisation. Inadine is a 10% povidone iodine dressing with the equivalent of 1% available iodine that is easily extracted from the viscose backing by serum or exudate. The use of hydrophilic polyethylene glycol tulle dressing delivery vehicle allows the dressing to be easily re...

developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh) and flatfoot are common pediatric orthopedic disorders, being referred to and managed by both general and pediatric orthopedic surgeons, through various modalities. our study aimed to evaluate their consensus and perspective disagreements in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches of the mentioned deformities. forty participants in two groups of g...

Basic role based access control [RBAC] provides a mechanism for segregating access privileges based upon users' hierarchical roles within an organization. This model doesn't scale well when there is tight integration of multiple hierarchies. In a case where there is joint-tenancy and a requirement for different levels of disclosure based upon a user's hierarchy, or in our case, organization or ...

The analysis of control of linear multi-agent systems has recently emerged as an important domain that is receiving a lot of interest from a variety of research communities, and consensus plays a fundamental role in this field of study. We will show how using linear algebra techniques can be analyzed the consensus controllability problem for singular multi-agent systems, in which all agents hav...

Consensus reaching processes play a key role in the resolution of many group decision making problems, in which it is desirable to obtain a highly acceptable solution to all individuals involved in the problem. However, not much interest has been put on defining appropriate metrics to evaluate in further detail the consensus solution, regarding experts’ preferred ordering or ranking of alternat...

Role-based access control (RBAC) has recently received a lot of attention due to its exibility, expressive power and simplicity in administration. In RBAC permissions are associated with roles and users are made members of roles thereby acquiring the associated permissions. Centralized management of RBAC in large systems is a tedious and costly task. An appealing possibility is to use RBAC itse...