We continue the review of some of the basic premises of QuantalEnhancement Theory (Stevens 1972, 1989, etc.) initiated in Clements and Ridouane (2006). While Quantal Theory proposes to account for similarities in feature realisation across speakers and languages, Enhancement Theory proposes to account for regular patterns of cross-linguistic variation. In this sense these two theories may be re...

Wasim Maziak Syria Of all its accomplishments, the West is perhaps most proud of its scientific revolution, which has been unfolding for the past halfmillennium. Only students of history remain consistently mindful of the pivotal and catalytic role that the Arab world played in the early phases of this revolution. Now, all of us should have a vested interest in advancing science and technology ...

Information Visualization (2002) 1, 93 – 94. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500018 This is the second issue of our young journal. This issue continues what we started in the first issue – to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the field of information visualization. To shape the interdisciplinary forum, we continue to seek original and stimulating articles on a variety of topics that in one way o...

Background Pain, morning stiffness and disease activity are core domains of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), relevant to patients (pts) physicians. AS treatment guidelines recommend using the Disease Activity Score C-reactive protein (ASDAS CRP ) assess activity. Greater improvements in pain, were previously shown with tofacitinib vs placebo (PBO) pts AS. [1] There limited data on time improvement ...

e read with interest the recent article of Grube et al. (1) dealing ith percutaneous aortic valve implantation. They reported the xperience from 3 centers using the second and third generations f the CoreValve prosthesis (CoreValve Inc., Irvine, California) in 6 consecutive patients. The acute device success was high (88%), nd the 30-day mortality was low (12%) in these surgically igh-risk pati...

The proteins encoded by the intercellular adhesin genes (icaADBC) synthesize the polysaccharide poly-N-acetylglucosamine (PNAG), which contributes to the formation of a biofilm by Staphylococcus aureus. In addition to the proteins that synthesize PNAG, the ica locus also encodes the TetR family transcriptional regulator IcaR (23). The icaR gene is transcribed divergently from icaADBC (10) and i...

Fiber tracking is winning more and more interest in the neuroscience research field and clinical practice, for its ability in revealing the structural connectivity; the quality of the fiber tracking depends in great extent, on fiber directions extraction The PSO algorithm could give good approximation of these directions. I. MATERIALS AND METHODS The diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) was introduced by...

shahnameh(iranian nation epic), has been imitated by many of the poets and drew attentions in many cases, from the beginning, which it can be claimed no other work along with the iranian literary history, has been imitated or has been summarized as far as shanameh. these imitated works and anthologies, as independent ms with titles such as: gozide, kholase, montakhab of shahanameh which have be...