Sabin C. Buraga¹, Octavian Dospinescu^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2857-2873, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014429 - 28 December 2020

Abstract A knowledge-driven approach is proposed for assessing the music influence on university students. The proposed method of modeling and conducting the interactive pilot study can be useful to convey other surveys, interviews, and experiments created in various phases of the user interface (UI) design processes, as part of a general human-computer interaction (HCI) methodology. Benefiting from existing semantic Web and linked data standards, best practices, and tools, a microservice-oriented system is developed as a testbed platform able to generate playlists in a smart way according to users’ music preferences. This novel approach could bring also More >

Paweł Lula¹, Octavian Dospinescu^2,*, Daniel Homocianu², Napoleon-Alexandru Sireteanu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2425-2443, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013771 - 28 December 2020

Abstract Our primary research hypothesis stands on a simple idea: The evolution of top-rated publications on a particular theme depends heavily on the progress and maturity of related topics. And this even when there are no clear relations or some concepts appear to cease to exist and leave place for newer ones starting many years ago. We implemented our model based on Computer Science Ontology (CSO) and analyzed 44 years of publications. Then we derived the most important concepts related to Cloud Computing (CC) from the scientific collection offered by Clarivate Analytics. Our methodology includes data More >

Marília Garcia de Oliveira¹, Fábio da Ressureição Sgnotto², Thamires Rodrigues de Sousa¹, Beatriz Oliveira Fagundes¹, Alberto Joséda Silva Duarte^1,3, Jefferson Russo Victor^1,4

European Cytokine Network, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 113-117, 2020, DOI:10.1684/ecn.2020.0452

Abstract The mechanisms through which maternal immunization can modulate offspring thymic maturation of lymphocytes are not fully understood. Here, we aimed to evaluate whether maternal OVA-immunization can inhibit the maturation of Th17 cells on offspring thymus. C57BL/6 females were immunized with OVA in Alum or Alum alone and mated with normal WT males. Offspring thymus was evaluated at three or 20 days of age. The demonstration that maternal OVA-immunization can inhibit offspring allergy development validated our experimental protocol. First, we observed that maternal OVA-immunization can inhibit the expression of RORγt and IL-17 molecules on immature T More >

L. Ezhilarasi^1,*, A.P. Shanthi², V. Uma Maheswari¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.3, pp. 465-478, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.013923

Abstract Development of new Artificial Intelligence related data analy sis methodologies w ith rev olutionary information technology has made a radical change in prediction, forecasting, and decision making for real-w orld data. The challenge arises w hen the real w orld dataset consisting of v oluminous data is uncertain. The rough set is a mathematical formalism that has emerged significantly for uncertain datasets. It represents the know ledge of the datasets as decision rules. It does not need any metadata. The rules are used to predict or classify unseen ex amples. The objectiv e of this… More >

Fulian Yin, Yanyan Wang, Jianbo Liu^*, Meiqi Ji

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.124, No.2, pp. 747-764, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.010579 - 20 July 2020

Abstract Word similarity (WS) is a fundamental and critical task in natural language processing. Existing approaches to WS are mainly to calculate the similarity or relatedness of word pairs based on word embedding obtained by massive and high-quality corpus. However, it may suffer from poor performance for insuf- ficient corpus in some specific fields, and cannot capture rich semantic and sentimental information. To address these above problems, we propose an enhancing embedding-based word similarity evaluation with character-word concepts and synonyms knowledge, namely EWS-CS model, which can provide extra semantic information to enhance word similarity evaluation. The More >

Tingxin Wei^{1, 2}, Weiguang Qu^{2, 3, *}, Junsheng Zhou³, Yunfei Long⁴, Yanhui Gu³, Zhentao Xia³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1897-1913, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010813 - 30 June 2020

Abstract The meaning of a word includes a conceptual meaning and a distributive meaning. Word embedding based on distribution suffers from insufficient conceptual semantic representation caused by data sparsity, especially for low-frequency words. In knowledge bases, manually annotated semantic knowledge is stable and the essential attributes of words are accurately denoted. In this paper, we propose a Conceptual Semantics Enhanced Word Representation (CEWR) model, computing the synset embedding and hypernym embedding of Chinese words based on the Tongyici Cilin thesaurus, and aggregating it with distributed word representation to have both distributed information and the conceptual meaning More >

M. A. Shaharuzaman^1,2,3, S. M. Sapuan^1,4,*, M. R. Mansor^2,3, M. Y. M. Zuhri^1,4

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.5, pp. 549-563, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.08769 - 29 April 2020

Abstract This paper presents the conceptual design stage in the product development process of a natural fiber composites of the side-door impact beam, which starts from idea generation to the selection of the best design concept. This paper also demonstrates the use of the integrated Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (Function-Oriented Search) (TRIZ (FOS)) and Biomimetics method, as well as the VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) method. The aim of this study was to generate design concepts that were inspired by nature and to select the best design concept for the composite side-door impact beam.… More >

Ali E. Dabiri^1,2,*, Erik Samwel³, Ghassan S. Kassab¹

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 75-83, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2020.08775

Abstract Nearly two billion people are afflicted with iron deficiency and approximately 300 million children globally have anemia. Most of those affected are unaware of their lack of iron, in part because detection of iron deficiency requires a blood test. It is becoming increasingly important to screen these individuals to reduce medical cost and avoid chronic disease conditions. There are limited settings of laboratory infrastructure for standard blood-based tests around the world to routinely accomplish this important screening test. We propose a new concept to use either human hair or nail as a screening method to… More >

Ali. E. Dabiri^1,2,*, Matthew Martin³, Ghassan S. Kassab¹

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 25-31, 2020, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07310

Abstract The world-wide impact of traumatic injury and associated hemorrhage on human health and well-being is significant. Methods to manage bleeding from sites within the torso, referred to as non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH), remain largely limited to the use of conventional operative techniques. The overall mortality rate of patients with NCTH is approximately 50%. Studies from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have suggested that up to 80% of potentially survivable patients die as a result of uncontrolled exsanguinating hemorrhage. The commercially available resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) is a percutaneous device… More >

Tingting Zhang^{1, 2, 3, *}, Yushi Lan², Minggang Yu¹, Changyou Zheng¹, Kun Liu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 893-904, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06216

Abstract Web Services Choreography Description Language lacks a formal system to accurately express the semantics of service behaviors and verify the correctness of a service choreography model. This paper presents a new approach of choreography model verification based on Description Logic. A meta model of service choreography is built to provide a conceptual framework to capture the formal syntax and semantics of service choreography. Based on the framework, a set of rules and constraints are defined in Description Logic for choreography model verification. To automate model verification, the UML-based service choreography model will be transformed, by More >