Exploring the Definition of Non-Monotonicity – Logical and Psychological Considerations by Piotr Łukowski, Konrad Rudnicki

“…When humans reason, they are able to revise their beliefs in light of new information and abandon obsolete conclusions. …”
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Classification, Mechanisms of Action, and Therapeutic Applications of Inhibitory Oligonucleotides for Toll-Like Receptors (TLR) 7 and 9 by Petar S. Lenert

“…We envision their future use in human SLE, microbial DNA-dependent sepsis, and in other autoinflammatory diseases.…”
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A Real-Time Optical Tracking and Measurement Processing System for Flying Targets by Pengyu Guo, Shaowen Ding, Hongliang Zhang, Xiaohu Zhang

“…This paper first designed and realized a distributed image interpretation and measurement processing system to achieve resource centralized management, multisite simultaneous interpretation and adaptive estimation algorithm selection; then proposed a real-time interpretation method which contains automatic foreground detection, online target tracking, multiple features location, and human guidance. An experiment is carried out at performance and efficiency evaluation of the method by semisynthetic video. …”
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Planar Monopoles with Different Radiator Shapes for UWB Body-Centric Wireless Communications by Y. Y. Sun, S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk

“…A solid-body phantom mimicking human tissue is used for studies of these three monopoles for body-centric communications. …”
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Representing Environmental Emergency as Social Emergency: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Blues Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi by Stéphanie DENÈVE

“…In the early 20th century, Mississippi floods had been worsening as the levee system progressed, in a period when the development of industrial plantations required the brutal exploitation and control of natural and human resources. While local elites and federal authorities declared war on the Mississippi River and on their black workforce, how did this region’s inhabitants process, interpret, and represent the 1927 flood? …”
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Contribution of Cell Surface Hydrophobicity in the Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus against Antimicrobial Agents by Puja Lather, A. K. Mohanty, Pankaj Jha, Anita Kumari Garsa

“…Staphylococcus aureus is found in a wide variety of habitats, including human skin, where many strains are commensals that may be clinically significant or contaminants of food. …”
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Anti-Retroviral Strategies for AIDS and Related Diseases by Mark A Wainberg, Andre Dascal, Jack Mendelson

“…The replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and other retroviruses consists of four stages: attachment of the virus to specific receptors on the cell surface; uncoating of the viral nucleic acid and conversion to DNA; production of viral RNA and proteins; and assembly and liberation of progeny virus from the cell. …”
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Gestion en métapopulation de Propithecus coronatus: une approche originale et multidisciplinaire pour la conservation d’une espèce en danger à Madagascar by Josia Razafindramanana, Delphine Roullet

“…The complete isolation of these groups living in fragmented forests subject to human pressure led to the elaboration of a unique and original conservation strategy, that a separated conservation action plan does not make sense. …”
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Bite mark analysis: A brief overview by Reshma Priyanka Danam, Mary Sujatha Mekala

“…Based on the scientific knowledge that every human dentition is unique, this distinctiveness suggests that dental marks can be used to identify the perpetrator. …”
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A cross-language perspective on the MAIDAN-concept by Yehorova Olesia, Prokopenko Antonina

“…As the constituents of thoughts, concepts play a key role in human’s categorisation and interpretation of the surrounding world, in fixing our cognitive experience and forming individual judgements. …”
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Improving Performance of KNN and C4.5 using Particle Swarm Optimization in Classification of Heart Diseases by Pareza Alam Jusia, Abdul Rahim, Herti Yani, Jasmir Jasmir

“…Heart disease is a major problem that must be overcome for human life. In recent years, the volume of medical data related to heart disease has increased rapidly, and various heart disease data has collaborated with information technology such as machine learning to detect, predict, and classify diseases. …”
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The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventive Controls for Animal Food by Jason M. Scheffler, Chad Carr

“… The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January of 2011 and is considered the most sweeping reform of food safety regulations in 70 years. The human food regulations were composed first and, with significant input from industry, academia, and consumer groups as well as other agencies, were then modified to better suit animal food production. …”
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Accurate identification of oxygen desaturation status in COPD by using classifier ensemble. by Yue-Fang Wu, Xin Shu, Shiqi Wang, Xiaojun Xu, Pei-Li Sun

“…The accurate identification of oxygen desaturation (OD) status plays critical role in the clinic diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is a common disease related to the lungs and respiratory tract of the human body. This paper focuses on a specific type of OD status, i.e., exercise-induced oxygen desaturation (EIOD) status in COPD, and try to further improve the performance of EIOD status identification. …”
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Hybrid optimal control for HIV multi-drug therapies: A finite set control transcription approach by Divya Thakur, Belinda Marchand

“…In this study, the treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is investigated through an optimal structured treatment interruption (STI) schedule of two classes of antiretroviral drugs, mainly, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors. …”
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GLOBALIZATION, POST-COLONIZING MIGRATION AND NEO-SLAVERY: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AFRICAN STATES by Jonathan C. Madu

“…Hence, it is argued to be a historical process and not a relatively new phenomenon, pointing out the evolution of global history at how the progression of human development overtime has contributed to broader societal advancement through the discovery of new and constantly improving technologies on one hand, but has been a highly uneven process characterized by unequal distribution of power, violence, discrimination and oppression on the other hand. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Compiled Declarative Language for Game AI Control by Christopher Cromer, Martin Araneda, Clemente Rubio-Manzano

“…An interesting and alternative line of work is to develop declarative scripting languages which align the programming task closer to human logic. This allows programmers to intuitively implement agents’ behaviors using straightforward rules. …”
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Intraoperative Imaging in Ovarian Cancer: Fact or Fiction? by Lucia M.A. Crane, Marleen van Oosten, Rick G. Pleijhuis, Arash Motekallemi, Sean C. Dowdy, William A. Cliby, Ate G.J. van der Zee, Gooitzen M. van Dam

“…These targets were selected based on expression rates in ovarian cancer, availability of an antibody or substrate aimed at the target approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and the likelihood of translation to human use. The purpose of this review is to present requirements for intraoperative imaging and to discuss possible tumor-specific targets for ovarian cancer, prioritizing for targets with substrates ready for introduction into the clinic.…”
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Establishing Lot Size through Sanitation Clean Breaks in Produce Packing Facilities by Benjamin Chapman, Michelle D. Danyluk

“…Danyluk and published by the UF Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, August 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fs234 …”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…First, I highlight the significance of historical colonial and apartheid contexts generating mapped reorganisations of land and human populations for memories of access and use that exceed these reorganisations. …”
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Some conceptual and grammatical properties of body part metonymies in English and Bosnian by Imamović Adisa, Ibrišimović Anela Mulahmetović

“…According to Cognitive Linguistics standpoint, human cognition is based on bodily functioning. Therefore, we started from the hypothesis that most body part metonymies are very similar across languages and cultures, and share similar properties. …”
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