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Using foreign inclusion detection to improve parsing performance
Inclusions from other languages can be a significant source of errors for monolin-gual parsers. We show this for English in-clusions, which are sufficiently frequent to present a problem when parsing German. We describe an annotation-free approach for accurately detecting such inclusions, and de-velop two methods for interfacing this ap-proach with a state-of-the-art parser for Ger-man. An evaluation on the TIGER cor-pus shows that our inclusion entity model achieves a performance gain of 4.3 points in F-score over a baseline of no inclusion de-tection, and even outperforms a parser with access to gold standard part-of-speech tags.
Theoretical relation between water flow rate in a vertical fracture and rock temperature in the surrounding massif
A steady-state analytical solution is given describing the temperature
distribution in a homogeneous massif perturbed by cold water flow through a
discrete vertical fracture. A relation is derived to express the flow rate in
the fracture as a function of the temperature measured in the surrounding rock.
These mathematical results can be useful for tunnel drilling as it approaches a
vertical cold water bearing structure that induces a thermal anomaly in the
surrounding massif. During the tunnel drilling, by monitoring this anomaly
along the tunnel axis one can quantify the flow rate in the discontinuity ahead
before intersecting the fracture. The cases of the Simplon, Mont Blanc and
Gotthard tunnels (Alps) are handled with this approach which shows very good
agreement between observed temperatures and the theoretical trend. The flow
rates before drilling of the tunnel predicted with the theoretical solution are
similar in the Mont Blanc and Simplon cases, as well as the flow rates observed
during the drilling. However, the absence of information on hydraulic gradients
(before and during drilling) and on fracture specific storage prevents direct
predictions of discharge rates in the tunnel
Constitutional Law: Limitations Imposed on Traditional Use of Doctrine of Federal Judicial Abstention
The Supreme Court held that federal judicial abstention may be inappropriate where violation of first amendment rights results from threatened state criminal proceedings brought under vague statutes or where bad faith prosecutions give rise to a claim under the Civil Rights Act. In order to provide immediate federal court protection in either of these situations, the Court has had to further erode the traditional policy bases underlying the doctrine of abstention
Heat shock protein 70 serum levels differ significantly in patients with chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Members of the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) family play an important role in assisting protein folding, preventing protein aggregation and transport of proteins across membranes under physiological conditions. Following environmental (i.e., irradiation, chemotherapy), physiological (i.e., cell growth, differentiation), and pathophysiological (i.e., inflammation, tumorigenesis) stress, the synthesis of heat shock proteins (HSPs) is highly up-regulated, whereas protein synthesis in general is reduced. In contrast to normal cells, many tumor entities including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) overexpress HSP70, the major-stress-inducible member of the HSP70 family, present it on their cell surface and secrete it into the extracellular milieu. Herein, the prognostic relevance of serum HSP70 levels in patients with chronic hepatitis (CH; n = 50), liver cirrhosis (LC; n = 46), and HCC (n = 47) was analyzed. Similar to other tumor entities, HSP70 is also present on the surface of primary HCC cells. The staining intensity of intracellular HSP70 in HCC tissue is stronger compared to control and cirrhotic liver sections. HSP70 serum levels in all HCC patients were significantly higher compared to a control group without liver disease (n = 40). No significant age- and gender-related differences in HSP70 serum levels were observed in male and female healthy human volunteers (n = 86). Patients with CH (n = 50) revealed significantly higher HSP70 serum levels compared to the control group, however, these values were significantly lower than those of HCC patients (n = 47). Furthermore, a subgroup of patients with LC who subsequently developed HCC (LC-HCC, n = 13) revealed higher HSP70 serum levels than patients with LC (n = 46, p = 0.05). These data indicate that serum HSP70 levels are consecutively increased in patients with CH, LC and liver carcinomas and thus might have a prognostic value
Projective schemes: What is Computable in low degree?
This article first presents two examples of algorithms that extracts
information on scheme out of its defining equations. We also give a review on
the notion of Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, its main properties (in
particular its relation to computational issues) and different ways that were
used to estimate it
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