Extracting Scales of Measurement Automatically from Biomedical Text with Special Emphasis on Comparative and Superlative Scales

Abstract In this thesis, the focus is on the topic of “Extracting Scales of Measurement Automatically from Biomedical Text with Special Emphasis on Comparative and Superlative Scales.” Comparison sentences, when considered as a critical part of scales of measurement, play a highly significant role in the process of gathering information from a large number of biomedical research papers. A comparison sentence is defined as any sentence that contains two or more entities that are being compared. This thesis discusses several different types of comparison sentences such as gradable comparisons and non-gradable comparisons. The main goal is extracting comparison sentences automatically from the full text of biomedical articles. Therefore, the thesis presents a Java program that could be used to analyze biomedical text to identify comparison sentences by matching the sentences in the text to 37 syntactic and semantic features. These features or qualities would be helpful to extract comparative sentences from any biomedical text. Two machine learning techniques are used with the 37 roles to assess the curated dataset. The results of this study are compared with earlier studies

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Blood Kin: Poems

This manuscript contains poems written and revised during my two years in the M.A. program in English. Themes include family, divorce, love, madness, religion, and nature. I wanted to develop a manuscript that truly reflected the past two years in terms of my life and in terms of my writing. The introduction details my journey to this point, explaining why certain I have been influenced by poets such as Sylvia Plath and Sappho. Overall, I see this manuscript as a reflection of life coming full circle, acting out part of the cycle of life. The journey from the first poem, “More than Blood,” to the last, “On Laying Down My Sword,” is imprinted on these pages

The effect of in-school opera performance and related curriculum on music cognition and attitude

This study was designed to compare knowledge about and attitude toward opera in three groups of fifth-graders with various levels of involvement with an in-school opera. One group watched the live performance, a second group watched the performance preceded by three pre-performance lessons that encompassed common opera vocabulary and voice types, and a third group experienced the lessons, the performance, and a five-lesson creative project in which they constructed their own opera. All students completed cognitive and attitude pretests and post-tests. ANCOVA analyses accounted for differences in scores on the pretests. Significant differences (p \u3c .05) on the multiple-choice portion of the cognitive exam were found between the performance-only group and the performance plus instruction groups. Significant differences were found between the groups on the concept map portion of the cognitive measure, with the differences coming between the performance only group and the performance plus lessons group. Significant differences were found between each of the groups for a Likert-scale attitude measure, with the performance and lessons group posting the largest increases. In addition, a significant correlation was found between cognitive scores and attitude scores. Responses to semi-structured interviews suggested that students’ opinions of Opera were influenced by factors related to music, factors related to production, and factors related to personal perceptions

Consumer Demand for Health Information on the Internet

The challenges consumers face in acquiring and using information are a defining feature of health care markets. In this paper, we examine demand for health information on the Internet. We find that individuals in poor health are more likely than those in better health to use the Internet to search for health information and to communicate with others about health and health care. We also find that individuals facing a higher price to obtain information from health care professionals are more likely to turn to the Internet for health information. Our findings indicate that demand for consumer health information depends on the expected benefits of information and the price of information substitutes.

Communica)on, Collabora)on, & Community: Capstone

ACE 10 Overview Communication Studies 495 satisfies the ACE 10 requirement through the completion of an individual, original research project. Projects are evaluated based on: 1. Adherence to formatting guidelines (20 pts) 2. Rationale for the study (75 pts) 3. Communication focus (75 pts) 4. Procedures and Analysis (75 pts) 5. Conclusion (75 pts) 6. Use of APA reference form (20 pts) Project Total = 340 points We explored the following question: To what extent have graduating seniors in Communication Studies mastered the intellectual competencies necessary to carry out meaningful communication research? Student Work that Satisfies ACE 10 Method of Analysis Selected Projects Findings Improving ACE 10 Learnin

Photoelastic coupling in gallium arsenide optomechanical disk resonators

We analyze the magnitude of the radiation pressure and electrostrictive stresses exerted by light confined inside GaAs semiconductor WGM optomechanical disk resonators, through analytical and numerical means, and find the electrostrictive force to be of prime importance. We investigate the geometric and photoelastic optomechanical coupling resulting respectively from the deformation of the disk boundary and from the strain-induced refractive index changes in the material, for various mechanical modes of the disks. Photoelastic optomechanical coupling is shown to be a predominant coupling mechanism for certain disk dimensions and mechanical modes, leading to total coupling g$_{om}$ and g$_0$ reaching respectively 3 THz/nm and 4 MHz. Finally, we point towards ways to maximize the photoelastic coupling in GaAs disk resonators, and we provide some upper bounds for its value in various geometries

High frequency GaAs nano-optomechanical disk resonator

Optomechanical coupling between a mechanical oscillator and light trapped in a cavity increases when the coupling takes place in a reduced volume. Here we demonstrate a GaAs semiconductor optomechanical disk system where both optical and mechanical energy can be confined in a sub-micron scale interaction volume. We observe giant optomechanical coupling rate up to 100 GHz/nm involving picogram mass mechanical modes with frequency between 100 MHz and 1 GHz. The mechanical modes are singled-out measuring their dispersion as a function of disk geometry. Their Brownian motion is optically resolved with a sensitivity of 10^(-17)m/sqrt(Hz) at room temperature and pressure, approaching the quantum limit imprecision.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure

Rational Unified Process

Uppsatsen har för avsikt att komma fram till i vilken omfattning utvecklingsmetoden RUP stödjer användarmedverkan. Genom att beskriva begreppen RUP, användarcentrerad systemdesign och användarmedverkan med hjälp av litteratur har jag kunnat sammanställa ett par frågor i avsikt att utföra en intervju med tre systemvetare. Resultatet från det empiriska materialet visade att systemvetarna upplever att RUP inte ger bra stöd för användarmedverkan. Utvecklarna upplever att användarna inte involveras tillräckligt främst i konstruktionsfasen. Främsta skälet till detta är att metoden inte ger möjlighet till att användarna ska involveras i projektet samt att användarna inte alltid har möjlighet att avsätta tillräckligt med tid för att kunna medverka tillräckligt i utvecklingen