Inductive databases are a new form of databases in which one does not only store data but also patterns or regularities. A user can generate, manipulate and query for patterns of interest using an inductive query language. Data mining then becomes an interactive querying process. The inductive database framework is especially important for bioand chemoinformatics because of the existence of a l...

introduction : deproteinized bovine bone mineral (bio-oss) is a xenogenic bone substitute, widely used in maxillofacial bone regeneration. the aim of this in vitro study was to investigate its influence on the growth behavior of human osteosarcoma cell line, saos-2 culture, and compare it with the physiologic dose of dexamethasone, an inductive factor for osteoblasts. materials and methods: hum...

Inductive learning is the method of learning from observations. Inductive learning has important applications over a wide range of area including pattern recognition, language acquisition, bio-informatics and intelligent agent design. Because of such diverse applicability, inductive learning methods including automata learning, grammar induction, hidden markov model learning and symbolic statis...

Probabilistic inductive logic programming (PILP), sometimes also called statistical relational learning, addresses one of the central questions of artificial intelligence: the integration of probabilistic reasoning with first order logic representations and machine learning. A rich variety of different formalisms and learning techniques have been developed and they are being applied on applicat...

INTRODUCTION Deproteinized bovine bone mineral (Bio-Oss) is a xenogenic bone substitute, widely used in maxillofacial bone regeneration. The aim of this in vitro study was to investigate its influence on the growth behavior of human osteosarcoma cell line, Saos-2 culture, and compare it with the physiologic dose of Dexamethasone, an inductive factor for osteoblasts. MATERIALS AND METHODS Huma...

The management of recalcitrant patellar tendinopathies in the athletic population can be vexing to both the surgeonand patient. To date the majority of treatments for this disease pathology are non-surgical in nature. When surgicalintervention is required, open debridement and/or tendon take-down with repair has been necessary. We proposea novel technique for the treatment of insertional patell...

Bone defects in human, caused by fractures/nonunions or trauma, gain increasing impact and have become a medical challenge in the present-day aging population. Frequently, those fractures require surgical intervention which ideally relies on autografts or suboptimally on allografts. Therefore, it is pressing and likewise challenging to develop bone substitution materials to heal bone defects. D...

MOTIVATION Although the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is currently over, it is expected that it will return to attack human beings. A critical challenge to scientists from various disciplines worldwide is to study the specificity of cleavage activity of SARS-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and use the knowledge obtained from the study for effective inhibitor design to ...