Sometimes It’s Necessary to Break a Few Rules

Why is A Few Sometimes A Lot?

It is not surprising to find that the quantity picked out by terms like a few and a lot is context dependent. We can easily accept that a few books might be 10 books, yet a lot of smartphones might only be 4 smartphones. The current paper posits that there are two hypotheses that can explain can explain this context dependency: the Definite Number Hypothesis (DNH), and the Gradable Quantifier H...

Metaphors Break the Rules

However, it is a general feature of metaphors that they violate hard or soft semantic constraints. They can be analyzed by detecting that these constraints have been violated, and describing how. Some of the gap in understanding can be closed simply by having a crisp model of argument types for the predicates that are denoted in text – a violation of those types is evidence for a metaphor. Clos...

Discard tubes are sometimes necessary when drawing samples for hemostasis.

Am J Clin Pathol 2010;134:849-853 851 © American Society for Clinical Pathology the need for discard tubes for PT, APTT, fibrinogen, proteins C and S, antithrombin, factor V Leiden, plasminogen, and D-dimer and also found no statistically significant differences between consecutive samples, although protein C almost reached significance, and Lippi and Guidi5 assessed PT, APTT, fibrinogen, and D...

Report of a few Cases of Cysticercus tenuicollis in Lambs, Kids and its Histopathhological Investigation

Decision Problems for Semi-Thue Systems with a Few Rules

For several decision problems about semi-Thue systems , we try to locate the frontier between the decidable and the undecidable from the point of view of the number of rules. We show that the the Termination Problem, the U-Termination Problem, the Accessibility Problem and the Common-Descendant Problem are undecidable for 3 rules STS. As a corollary we obtain the undecidability of the Post-Corr...