Telephone: The Old Technology that is Never Old

Telephone: The Old Technology that is Never Old

Telephone technology is a technology that stands the test of time. Since it was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Belle, it has remained the technology of all time. This article reports the major findings of a recent research, ‘How Technology Transforms Citizen Journalism Business in Nigeria’. According to the research, Telephone technology has over the years emerged a major tool with which ...

Computational Probability : Old Ideas Never Die

Never too old to fight breast cancer

RATIONALE Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting females worldwide and its lifetime risk increases with age. Human epidermal growth factor receptor gene-2 (HER-2) positive breast cancer represents about 20% of all breast cancers, 1 out of 10 is diagnosed in women over 70 years of age. It tends to be more aggressive and to spread more quickly than other subtypes, but the introduction ...

Listwise directed forgetting is present in young-old adults, but is absent in old-old adults.

People can exert control over the contents of their memory and can intentionally forget information when cued to do so. The present study examined such intentional forgetting in older adults using the listwise directed forgetting (DF) task. We replicated prior work by finding intact forgetting in young-old adults (up to 75 years). Extending the prior work, we additionally found forgetting to de...

Old Linguists Never Die, They Only Get Obligatorily Deleted

Martin Kay, in his speech delivered in 2005 on receipt of his ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, specified computational linguistics as follows: “Computational linguistics is trying to do what linguists do in a computational manner” (Kay 2005, page 429). I believe it is a legitimate question for a computational linguist to ask what linguists do. Coming from Prague, it is then quite a natural quest...