Semantic processing system (SPS) is a system that performs phrase search of web content. SPS takes a user query in natural language, converts it to a keyword query, expands the keyword query with synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, and meronyms, and presents the keyword query to a search engine. SPS then sifts through the search engine result pages extracting grammatical and semantic information fro...

The aim of this study was to determine whether administration of the prodrugs bisacodyl (Bisa) and sodium picosulfate (SPS) leads to excretion of their common active metabolite, bis-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-pyridyl-2-methane (BHPM), in breast milk. Two groups of 8 healthy lactating women who had stopped breast feeding received multiple doses of Bisa or SPS. Plasma, urine, and breast milk were collecte...

Sodium polyanetholsulfonate (SPS) at 7.8 Ag/ml completely abolished complement-mediated hemolysis of 1:10 diluted fresh guinea pig and human serum; at least twice as much SPS was required to reduce complement activity in 1: 2 diluted human serum. The coagulation of 90 and 20% human blood was inhibited by 250 and 125 Ag of SPS per ml, respectively. When added to fresh human serum, SPS precipitat...

Crystallization and morphological features of syndiotactic-b-atactic polystyrene stereodiblock copolymers (sPS-b-aPS), atactic/syndiotactic polystyrene blends (aPS/sPS), and aPS/sPS blends modified with sPS-b-aPS, with different compositions in aPS and sPS, have been investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized light optical microscopy (POM) and wide angle X-ray diffrac...

We present an approach to joint application of spectral subtraction (SPS) and model combination (PMC) for speech recognition in noisy environments. Contrary to previous solutions e.g. [2] distortion introduced by SPS is not modeled in PMC. Instead we ensure compatibility of the two methods by adapting parameters of SPS (spectral floor and overestimation factor) according to the present signalto...

Software Process Simulation (SPS) has been evolving in the last decades and gained researchers’ and practitioners’ interests in software process community. However, the growth of SPS seems slow down in recent years, and the evidence for its benefits to industrial practice is not commonly reported as expected. SPS still awaits a breakthrough success. This special panel aims to initiate a discuss...

INTRODUCTION One of the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the impaired extinction of traumatic memory. Single prolonged stress (SPS) has been suggested as an animal model of PTSD, since SPS rats exhibited the impaired fear extinction. Oxytocin (OXT) has been recently suggested as a potential pharmacotherapy for treatment of PTSD. In this study, using SPS rats we inves...

Paper currencies could be one of the most potential vehicles to transmit diseases amongst the people. The daily transactions have made the paper currency to pass through many hands and pathogens become imposed on them before they are finally deposited in banks. Modern scientific studies have confirmed the presence of various pathogenic bacteria on paper currencies. Amongst others, Staphylococcu...

Paper currencies could be one of the most potential vehicles to transmit diseases amongst the people. The daily transactions have made the paper currency to pass through many hands and pathogens become imposed on them before they are finally deposited in banks. Modern scientific studies have confirmed the presence of various pathogenic bacteria on paper currencies. Amongst others, Staphylococcu...