T ubiquity and impact of non­ communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, cancers, chronic obstruc­ tive pulmonary disease, and psy­ chiatric disorders present major global health, development, and societal challenges.1 Acknowledg­ ing this fact, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly will hold a high­level meeting on global noncommunicable diseases on September 19...

This paper reports on two experiments with a probabilistic part-of-speech tagger, trained on a tagged corpus of written Swedish, being used to tag a corpus of (transcribed) spoken Swedish. The results indicate that with very little adaptations an accuracy rate of 85% can be achieved, with an accuracy rate for known words of 90%. In addition, two different t reatments of pauses were explored but...

Context plays a major part in the interpretation of quantified expressions in natural language. In this article, the at tention will be focused on contextual restrictions on quantification in intensional constructions such as questions, propositional at t i tude reports and epistemic sentences. It has often been observed that our interpretation of these constructions can depend on how the relev...

-The rates of release of AI by M NH~NO3 (pH 3) from minerals saturated with AI ions at pH 3 suggest that AI ions migrated from the surface layers and the matrix cores of kaolinite, montmorillonite, illite, and biotite, but only from the matrix core of muscovite mica. From the 0.25-0.5 p.m kaolinite and montmorillonite, part of the 'surface' A1 is released 'instantaneously' and the rest by first...

In this paper we present an approach to the disambiguation of capitalized words when they are used in the positions where capitalization is expected, such as the first word in a sentence or after a period, quotes, etc.. Such words can act as proper names or can be just capitalized variants of common words. The main feature of our approach is that it uses a minimum of prebuilt resources and trie...

Introducing Emerging Standards IEEE Security & Privacy announces the formation of a new department for the magazine—Emerging Standards. Tim Grance, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, and Rick Kuhn, of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Susan Landau from Sun Microsystems, are the co­ editors of this department, which will concentrate on security issues arising from deployment of new...

The development of sustained visual allention was examined in Infants cross-seclionally at 14, 20, and 26 weeks of age. lIearl rate, hearl rate variablllt)., and respiralory sinus arrhythmia were measured in a S-min baseline period. Two methods for measuring ,'isual altention "'Cre used. The "infanl conlrol" method consisted of checkerboard presentations which were terminated when Ihe infanlloo...

Frequency domain e prefix has been drawing much a robustness to frequency selecti fractionally spaced equalization been proposed by Vaidyanathan extend the method to general derive optimal equalizer weights minimum mean-square-error (M show that the proposed method frequency diversity scheme. Keywordscyclic prefix, f fractionally spaced equalization, f I. INT Frequency domain equaliza (CP) has ...

Syntactic constraints on antecedent-anaphor relations can be stated within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar (henceforth LFG) through the use of functional uncertainty (Kaplan and Maxwell 1988; Halvorsen and Kaplan 1988; Ksplan and Zaenen 1989). In the following, we summarize the general characteristics of syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding. Next, we describe a variation of funct...

This paper presents and evaluates models created according to a schema that provides a description of the joint distribution of the values of sense tags and contextual features that is potentially applicable to a wide range of content words. The models are evaluated through a series of experiments, the results of which suggest that the schema is part icularly well suited to nouns but that it is...