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Leonardo da Vinci as physiologist.

It is of course in the art (or as Leonardo would have called it, the ' science') of representing the parts of the human body that Leonardo stands pre-eminent, but beyond this task of anatomical illustration Leonardo always searched into the problems of function which lay inherent in the accurate representation of each ' instrument of the body.' At the outset he realized that no intelligent disc...

Selva: A New Syntactic Parser for Portuguese

Automating psycholinguistic statistics computation: Procura-PALavras

This article describes psycholinguistic lexical databases available in various languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese. These lexical databases are important for researchers in Psycholinguistics and other related areas, providing a pool of experimental materials and allowing for an efficient process of selection of these experimental materials. The process of gathering statistics i...

Correlations between vocabulary and phonological acquisition: number of words produced versus acquired consonants Correlações entre aquisição do vocabulário e da fonologia: número de palavras produzidas versus consoantes adquiridas

Accepted: December 22, 2015 Study carried out at Center for Language and Speech Research, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM Santa Maria (RS), Brazil. 1 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM Santa Maria (RS), Brazil. Financial support: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS). Conf...

Hispines (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Survey work from 1992-2001 identified 139 species of hispines at the lowland part of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. The tribe Cephaloleiini was the most speciose with 58 species (41.7%) followed by the Chalepini with 55 (39.5%). The fauna is most closely related to that in South America but with some genera which are more speciose in the Nearctic Region. Plant associations are known f...