background : the concepts of ‘intelligence’ and ‘intellectual performance’ though seem alike, but are different. intelligence assessment of an individual is technical, is done by the application of multiple, reliable and validated, iq (intelligence quotient) tests on the same individual in different settings (date, place and time). however, ‘intellectual performance’ (ip) has a reference only t...

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As my title suggests, this position paper focuses on the relevance of linguistics in NLP instead of asking the inverse question. Although the question about the role of computational linguistics in the study of language may theoretically be much more interesting than the selected topic, I feel that my choice is more appropriate for the purpose and context of this workshop. This position paper s...

This dissertation concerns the morphophonological alternation of lexical items, determined by syntactic position. It considers three types of inflection, positional allomorphy and certain examples of phenomena collectively called "contraction", and argues that the notion of lexical insertion into d-structure, underlying many current syntactic theories, has difficulty in accounting for these cas...

Background & aim: Forensic midwifery is a new major which has been established in response to the need of endangered women for forensic services and also the lack of service provision in this domain. However, there are ambiguities in the definition of this major and its scope of practice. The present study was conducted to investigate the scope of practice in forensic ...

introduction: the existence of sexual dimorphism in human skeletons especially skull and its medico-legal importance had long been studied [3] [2,1]. this study has investigated the existence of sexual dimorphism in cranial dimensions of nigerian population. methods: a total of 100 adult dry skulls, (78 males, 22 females) free from damage and deformity fully ossified from departments of anatomy...

this study pursued the molecular identification of fish species from processed products for human consumption which, a priori, belonged to nine species. dna barcoding using direct sequencing of about 650 bp of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit i (coi) revealed incorrect labeling in the three alaska pollack samples (11% of all samples). substitution of fish species constitutes se...