Making Sense of "Red Birth Marks"

Making Sense of "Red Birth Marks".

What a useful tool the vascular anomalies classification described by Wassef et al would have been during my medical training! As a pediatric resident in the 1980s, I was frequently perplexed by the many red “birth marks” I was confronted with while performing newborn and well-child examinations. Despite a reassuring nod from attendings, who offered terms like “port wine stain” and “strawberry ...

Chasing red herrings: making sense of the colors while mapping.

The Creation of Necessity: Making Sense of Cartesian Modality

دکارت در نوشته‌های کلامی خود، دو فرضیه‌ی گیج‌کنندۀ به ‌هم ‌پیوسته را به ‌پیش می‌برد: فرضیۀ1) خداوند آزادانه حقایق ازلی را می‌آفریند (یعنی آموزۀ خلقت)؛ فرضیۀ2) حقایق ازلی بالضروره صادق­اند. بنا به فرضیۀ نخست، خداوند آزادانه برمی‌گزیند که کدام قضایا ضروری باشد، کدام محتمل و کدام ممکن. اما آموزۀ خلقت دکارت قبول فرضیۀ دوم را دشوار می‌سازد، زیرا مستلزم آن است که خداوند می‌توانسته است ‌ــ با ایجاد مج...

Making sense of electrical sense in crayfish.

The five sensory modalities of humans are also found in a wide range of invertebrates. Other vertebrates have evolved additional special senses, such as the magnetic sense, which are also found in some invertebrates. However, there remain a few sensory abilities that curiously appear to be found in either vertebrates or invertebrates, but not both. For example, electrosensitivity - the ability ...

Making Sense of Word Sense Variation

We present a pilot study of word-sense annotation using multiple annotators, relatively polysemous words, and a heterogenous corpus. Annotators selected senses for words in context, using an annotation interface that presented WordNet senses. Interannotator agreement (IA) results show that annotators agree well or not, depending primarily on the individual words and their general usage properti...