... organization of language and re-organized as intrinsic linguistic constraints on language form and function The proto-metafunctional character of the infant’s vocalization in Halliday’s example ... in natural languages Natural language deictics have both indexical and symbolic aspects and are not, therefore, pure indexicals In the case of deictics, the indexical constraints at level L are ... key players include Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert de Beaugrande, James J Gibson, Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget, Stanley Salthe,...
... sentenceinternal clause boundaries is missing, so a constraint, usually about clause-internal relations, has to ascertain that the words and features referred to are in the same clause - again ina roundabout ... grammarian's task easier For instance, the grammarian might wish to state that a finite clause contains maximally one potentially coordinated subject Now if potential subjects in non-finite clauses ... written in the upper case, e.g Sam/@SUBJ was/@MV a/ @>N man/@SC A verb chain ina non-finite clause, on the other hand, contains only non-finite verbs Verbs and nominal heads ina non-finite clause are...
... measure Vilain et al (1995) The table in (a) is our performance on the thirty document MUC-6 formal test set with increasing amounts of training data In all cases for the table, we are evaluating on ... JMLR Pascal Denis and Jason Baldridge 2007 Global, joint determination of anaphoricity and coreference resolution using integer programming HLT-NAACL Thomas Ferguson 1973 A bayesian analysis ... not part of the training data for official MUC-6 evaluation) This model gave 68.0 F1 and is labeled +DRYRUN-TRAIN in table 2 (a) We then added the ACE ENGLISH-NWIRE training data, which is from a...
... other antihypertensive treatment is associated with reduced lung function inageneral adult population Thus, our findings may serve asa basis for experimental testing, asfor example by adding ... an instrument for database-assisted online collection of medication data (IDOM) [19] The following substance classes were considered as antihypertensive medication according to the recommendations ... measurements were taken with a 3-minute pause after a rest of at least minutes ina sitting position on the right arm The mean of the last two measurements was used for the current analyses High blood...
... of Engineering in department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA He is a Fellow of ASME, AIAA, IEEE, and SAE E-mail address: rka@wustl.edu ... a wind farm of HAWT using GA gives a uniform grid arrangement similar that obtained by Grady et al [2]; this is different than that obtained by Mosetti [1] who obtained a somewhat random arrangement ... University in St Louis He received B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China in 2008 and M.S in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St Louis in 2010 Xiaomin's...
... generate lexical paraphrases A sample lexical paraphrase for "The base plan called for one fiber activation at CSA 2100" is "The base plan proposed one fiber activation at CSA 2100" Subcategorizations ... semantic level For example, '~rhe base plan called for one fiber activation at CSA 2100" and "There was one fiber activation at CSA 2100" are semantic paraphrases in PlanDOC domain At the lexical ... planning product It transforms lengthy execution traces of engineer's interaction with LEIX-PLAN into human-readable summaries For each message in PlanDOC, at least paraphrases are defined at...
... Pharmacokinetics of an Intravenous Tracer Any foreign substance, such asa blood tracer, introduced into the cardiovascular system will not remain in the blood stream indefinitely The pharmacokinetic1 ... stomach instantly diffuses to equilibrium, attaining a spatially constant concentration in the stomach Chapter 2: Detecting Gastrointestinal Bleeding with a Fluorescent Tracer 16 A tracer injection ... certain wavelengths while reflecting all others [29] An stack of alternating dielectrics forms a 1-D periodic array that can be carefully designed create low pass (LP), high pass (HP), and band pass...
... surveys at baseline and at an eight-year follow up, and was a part of the Epipain project [22] Subjects and data collection The target population was all 70 704 inhabitants aged 20– 74 years in two ... musculoskeletal pain at baseline, and regarding smoking habits, never being a smoker or being a former smoker, compared to being a current smoker, was significantly (P < 0.05) associated with having a health ... chronic pain For subjects without chronic musculoskeletal pain at baseline, having emotional support was significantly (P < 0.05) associated with having a health status better than the mean score in...
... surveys at baseline and at an eight-year follow up, and was a part of the Epipain project [22] Subjects and data collection The target population was all 70 704 inhabitants aged 20– 74 years in two ... musculoskeletal pain at baseline, and regarding smoking habits, never being a smoker or being a former smoker, compared to being a current smoker, was significantly (P < 0.05) associated with having a health ... chronic pain For subjects without chronic musculoskeletal pain at baseline, having emotional support was significantly (P < 0.05) associated with having a health status better than the mean score in...
... pulmonary diseases are lacking in the Greek literature In the present study we assessed anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients hospitalized in pulmonary clinics with bronchial asthma (BA), ... anxiety caused by a specific condition (state subscale), and (b) anxiety asa more permanent characteristic of the personality (trait subscale) This second (trait) subscale was used in our study ... closely related to relapses and aggravations of respiratory disease, especially in men, pointing to a link between psychological factors and chronic pulmonary disease [19] Patients with COPD cannot...
... Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan 7Changhua Christian Hospital, Lu-Tung Branch, Changhua, Taiwan 8Wei Gong Memorial Hospital, Miaoli, Taiwan 9Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 10Catholic ... obesity and diabetes American Diabetes Association; American Psychiatric Association; American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; North American Association for the Study of Obesity Diabetes ... 2A antagonist activity [6] and 5-HT 1A partial agonist activity [7,8] In addition, aripiprazole has minimal affinity for a2 adrenergic receptors, H1 histamine receptors and muscarinic cholinergic...
... this article as: Nano et al.: Delayed endovascular treatment of descending aorta stent graft collapse ina patient treated for posttraumatic aortic rupture: a case report Journal of Cardiothoracic ... represent an inadequate proximal landing zone for current grafts which have limited conformability and longitudinal flexibility In our case, the proximal aortic diameter was 21 mm and we used a 28 ... the patient came back to our Division He complained for gluteal and sural claudication with pain-free walking interval of less than 40 meters and erectile disfunction; a chest and abdominal radiography...
... Funding of the Pirkanmaa Hospital District Author details Vaasa Hospital District and National Institute for Health and Welfare, Psychiatric Unit of Vaasa Central Hospital, Sarjakatu 2, Vaasa, ... Lapua, Finland 4National Institute for Health and Welfare, Psychiatric Unit of Vaasa Central Hospital, Sarjakatu 2, Vaasa, FI65320, Finland Authors’ contributions All authors have read and approved ... contact with health care professionals during the last year Internationally this is a rather positive result but far from optimal Another result was also alarming: the prevalence of depression was...
... difference at all in dealing with depression [29] Asa result, future research into mental health stigma should continue in order to gain insight into mental health literacy and search for potential influences ... cross-sectional study examining depression literacy and stigma in Alberta, Canada The target population was household residents in Alberta, aged 18 - 74 years old Participants were recruited using random ... stigma has been found to be higher among Chinese Americans than White Americans [17], among White Americans than African Americans [16], and among older Korean Americans than younger Korean Americans...
... Vienna, Austria, R Foundation for Statistical Computing Silverman ES, Palmer LJ, Subramaniam V, Hallock A, Mathew S, Vallone J, Faffe DS, Shikanai T, Raby BA, Weiss ST, Shore SA: Transforming ... Celera databases, but are only prevalent in African populations (frequency 0.05–0.12) but not in Caucasian populations (frequency 0.00) According to the HapMap database there are two large LD ... transplantation Transplantation 1998, 66:1014-1020 Imai K, Hiramatsu A, Fukushima D, Pierschbacher MD, Okada Y: Degradation of decorin by matrix metalloproteinases: identification of the cleavage...
... local modification of the Ramsay Sedation Scale [12] (Table 1) The target sedation range was a score in categories 1–4; category was classified as undersedation and categories and as oversedation ... potentially harmful physiological abnormalities such as hypertension, tachycardia, cardiac arrhythmias or intracranial hypertension which were attributable to inadequate sedation should be made In ... the target range inappropriate This included patients for whom sedation was no longer indicated as mechanical ventilation was to be weaned, and patients in whom deteriorating respiratory function...
... systems and analgesia protocols [8,9] Of the available pain scales, the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) (1 to 10) and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) (1 to 100) have been validated for acute pain only and ... hypnosis-based approach and toward an analgesia-based approach Although these changes may improve pain and sedation practice, further efforts are needed for widespread implementation of pain scoring systems ... NRS, VAS, and BPS for measuring pain in ventilated and non-ventilated patients in the ICU Materials and methods Design A prospective observational study was performed ina 30-bed surgical/medical...
... three independent experiments, each performed in triplicate Plating efficiencies were calculated for all flasks, and surviving fraction for drug-free flasks was calculated in the usual way For ... under investigation In such cases, it would be informative to assess the relative where δz allows for non-null effect of the drug on plating efficiency; α and β are the classical linear and quadratic ... drug-treated flasks, surviving fraction was calculated using the mean, unirradiated, drug-free plating efficiency as the denominator This method revealed radiation-independent drug effects and enabled...