conclusions early diagnosis is required for the management of human myiasis. if we don’t properly recognize and treat ophthalmomyiasis, it can progress rapidly and can result in destruction of orbital tissues. the main treatment modality includes removal of the larvae and if necessary, surgical debridement. case presentation we describe a young male with wound and ocular myiasis due to lucilia ...

Glossary Amplitude modulation Refers to a signal in which changes in amplitude carry sensory information. Corollary discharge Refers to a copy of a motor command that is sent from motor areas to sensory areas in the brain. It is often used to predict and eliminate sensory responses to self-generated stimuli. Electrosense Ability to detect electric fields. A passive electrosense is one in which ...

We propose a general framework which can be used for modeling and predicting the popularity of online contents. The aim of our modeling is not inferring the precise popularity value of a content, but inferring the likelihood with which the content will be popular. Our approach is rooted in survival analysis which deals with the survival time until an event of a failure or death. Survival analys...

Title of dissertation: COMPILER-BASED PRE-EXECUTION Dongkeun Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Donald Yeung Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Pre-execution is a novel latency-tolerance technique where one or more helper threads run in front of the main computation and trigger long-latency delinquent events early so that the main thread makes for...

This paper addresses the problem of predicting popularity of comments in an online discussion forum using reinforcement learning, particularly addressing two challenges that arise from having natural language state and action spaces. First, the state representation, which characterizes the history of comments tracked in a discussion at a particular point, is augmented to incorporate the global ...

Individuals’ belief about the controllability of what happens to them is a core element of their understanding of how they live in the world. Those who attribute their successes to internal causes have a greater degree of achievement motivation than those who attribute their successes to external causes. Those who attribute their failure to external causes, rather than to internal causes have s...