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Introduction to the special issue on the nature and scope of information
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An inquiry dialogue system
The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or deliberation dialogues; we focus on inquiry dialogues, which allow agents to collaborate in order to find new knowledge. We...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Goal-Based Decisions for Dynamic Planning
The need for clinical guidelines to be implemented at different sites, to adapt to rapidly changing environments, and to be carried out by distributed clinical teams, implies a degree of flexibility beyond tha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Argument-Based Approach to Using Multiple Ontologies
Logic-based argumentation offers an approach to querying and revising multiple ontologies that are inconsistent or incoherent. A common assumption for logic-based argumentation is that an argument is a pair 〈Φ,α〉...
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Early prediction of hypotheroidism following 131I treatment for Graves' disease
The aim of this study was twofold. Firstly to assess the post treatment predictive value of various biochemical and immunological tests for early hypothyroidism after 131I therapy for Graves' disease, and secondl...
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Regulation of Albumin Synthesis and Catabolism by Alteration of Dietary Protein
THERE is good evidence that catabolism of albumin is slowed in conditions of low-protein feeding and in clinical states of protein deficiency, for example, kwashiorkor1–3. There is less certainty about alteration...
