2 Principal contact: This year our primary goal was to improve on the performance of our TREC-8 system. In addition to improving the system directly, we worked on a number of tools to aid our development. We continued our work on a tool for automatic scoring of system responses, a “judge” program. We designed a tool for doing regression testing of question answering systems. W...

There is one concept in medicine which is prominent, the symptom. The omnipresence of the symptom seems, however, not to be reflected by an equally prominent curiosity aimed at investigating this concept as a phenomenon. In classic, traditional or conventional medical diagnostics and treatment, the lack of distinction with respect to the symptom represents a minor problem. Faced with enigmatic ...

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

The model identification of the nonlinear system has been concerned by the industrial community all along. The relationship of the nonlinear dynamic system is contained in the data accumulated in the scene. To better utilize the data about the industrial objects, in this article, we put forward the nonlinear system predictor driven by the Bayesian-Gaussian neural network (NN) model, use the tra...

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place - life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education - learning skills for traditional academia and to foster ha...

SYSTEM R is a variant of the original STRIPS by Fikes and Nilsson (1971) (called forwardchaining, recursive STRIPS in Nilsson [1998]). Briefly speaking, given a conjunction of simple goals, it selects one of them to work on. If there is an action that is executable and will make this simple goal true once executed, then it does this action and then tries to achieve the other simple goals in the...

DNA barcoding methods originally developed for the identification of plant specimens have been applied to the authentication of herbal drug materials for industrial quality assurance. These methods are intended to be complementary to current morphological and chemical methods of identification. The adoption of these methods by industry will be accelerated by the introduction of DNA-based identi...

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) is aiming to interconnect humans, machines, materials, processes and services in a network. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) comprises the less power consuming, light weight and effective Sensor Nodes (SNs) for higher network performance. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and sensor networks are both wireless technologies that provide limitless future po...