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Kam Fai Wong
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The processing and improvement of multi-statement queries in Chiql
Chiql is a novel Chinese relational database query language for Chinese users. It supports procedural query style in which users can specify a complex database request in multiple simple statements. This facil...
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MODEC: A Multi-Granularity Mobile Object-Oriented Database Caching Mechanism, Prototype and Performance
An inherent limitation in mobile data access is due to the unreliable and low bandwidth wireless communication channel. Caching of useful database items from database server in local storage of mobile clients ...
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sk−p Fractional factorial designs in sb blocks
Draper and Guttman (1997) shows that for basic 2k−p designs, p≥0, k − p replicates of blocks designs of size two are needed to estimate all the usual (estimable) effects. In this work, we provide an algebraic fo...
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Answering XML Queries Using Path-Based Indexes: A Survey
The problem of answering XML queries using path-based indexes is to find efficient methods for accelerating the XML query with pre-designed index structures over the XML database. This problem received increas...
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Normalization of Chinese chat language
Real-time communication platforms such as ICQ, MSN and online chat rooms are getting more popular than ever on the Internet. There are, however, real risks where criminals and terrorists can perpetrate illegal...
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Extracting common emotions from blogs based on fine-grained sentiment clustering
Recently, blogs have emerged as the major platform for people to express their feelings and sentiments in the age of Web 2.0. The common emotions, which reflect people’s collective and overall sentiments, are ...
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Open AccessModerate glucose control results in less negative nitrogen balances in medical intensive care unit patients: a randomized, controlled study
Hyperglycemia and protein loss are common in critically ill patients. Insulin can be used to lower blood glucose and inhibit proteolysis. The impact of moderate insulin therapy on protein metabolism in critica...
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Open AccessMonitoring sedation for bronchoscopy in mechanically ventilated patients by using the Ramsay sedation scale versus auditory-evoked potentials
Appropriate sedation benefits patients by reducing the stress response, but it requires an appropriate method of assessment to adjust the dosage of sedatives. The aim of this study was to compare the differenc...
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Cross lingual opinion holder extraction based on multi-kernel SVMs and transfer learning
Fine grained opinion analysis has much higher demand for annotated corpus which makes high quality analysis difficult when there are insufficient resources. In this paper we explore the use of cross lingual re...
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Open AccessA Survey on Recent Advances and Challenges in Reinforcement Learning Methods for Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Learning
Dialogue policy learning (DPL) is a key component in a task-oriented dialogue (TOD) system. Its goal is to decide the next action of the dialogue system, given the dialogue state at each turn based on a learne...
