An Introduction in Three Jokes

Introduction of Three Independent Selection Markers in Leishmania

The pLE2SCX vector was developed for the stable expression of exogenous genes in the protozoan parasite Leishmania. The pLE2SCX construct contains three independent selection markers: herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-TK), cytosine deaminase (CD) and streptothericin acetyltransferase gene (sat) in multiple cloning site, flanking by 5’ and 3’ untranslated regions of the previously clone...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction

Logic and reasoning in jokes

It has often been remarked that jokes involve some form of distorted logic, but the details of this joke logic have not been fully explored. We offer a contribution to the methodology of this exploration by clarifying some abstract theoretical distinctions. Firstly, we separate two crucially different notions of “reasoning” which are relevant to joke comprehension: internal logic and audience i...

Computationally Recognizing Wordplay in Jokes

In artificial intelligence, researchers have begun to look at approaches for computational humor. Although there appears to be no complete computational model for recognizing verbally expressed humor, it may be possible to recognize jokes based on statistical language recognition techniques. This is an investigation into computational humor recognition. It considers a restricted set of all poss...