— Primary hyperhidrosis, a disorder characterized by an excessive sweating, has been treated by endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy. As a consequence of the surgery, patients impro...
: Since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s, technological development has resulted in dramatically increased processing power, storage capacity and communication...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
Traditionally, collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms used for recommendation operate on complete knowledge. This makes these algorithms hard to employ in a decentralized contex...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...