terence irwin argues that aquinas answered a question that aristotle had raised but had not answered. the question is if there is any relation between intellectual virtues and moral virtues. the answer is yes, moral virtues direct intellectual virtues to attain the final end. moral virtues show in what areas one should think, how much other things should be attended to, and how much one should ...

to know every phenomenon the first step is to know its root. hygiene and medicine have noble origin from the beginning of the recorded human history; in fact, they have been the milestone of human society. medical history will help us to know this background and roots and achaemenid period as a brilliant age of iranian heritage is meritorious to be studied. the present study is an attempt to fi...

This paper reports preliminary results of an evaluation during which two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT were compared in a hospital setting. The more restricted version (V.1) only allows Yes-No answers and short elliptical sentences, while the less restricted version (V.2) allows Yes-No answers, short elliptical sentences and ful...

" How does she shoot? If you're examining a rifle to see if it killed a man, don't you have to have some idea how it shoots? " " I can assure you, sir, it has all the hallmarks of a rifle customized for maximum accuracy. " " Yes, but how does it shoot? "-Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact

The classical group testing problem asks to determine at most d defective elements in a set of n elements, by queries to subsets that return Yes if the subset contains some defective, and No if the subset is free of defectives. By the entropy lower bound, log2 ∑d

F. Cukierman asked whether or not for every smooth real plane curve X ⊂ P of even degree d > 2 there exists a real line L ⊂ P such X ∩ L has no real points. We show that the answer is “yes” if d = 2 or 4 and “no” if n > 6.

We consider the “and” communication device that receives inputs from two players and outputs the public signal yes if both messages are yes, and outputs no otherwise. We prove that no correlation can securely be implemented using this device, even when infinitely many stages of communication are allowed. ∗THEMA, Université Paris X-Nanterre, 200 avenue de la République, 92001 Nanterre, France an...

(2)a. main interrogatives (both yes/no and wh-questions); b. wh-exclamatives, expressing an emotionally salient attitude of the speaker, and yes/no exclamatives, expressing the speaker’s negative presupposition with respect to the propositional content, which is presented as unexpected; c. optatives expressing the speaker’s wish, in which the realization of a counterfactual propositional conten...