In this paper we aim to clarify that participants of conversation can predict whether an utterance includes grammatical terminal elements, which have been referred to as the utterance-final elements (UFEs) in Japanese. We carried out perceptual experiments with Japanese utterances missing a part close to their end. The results showed that subjects distinguished whether an UFE follows at the ver...

We propose extracting information about characters and actions from a self-contained story, such as news reports. This information is stored in structure patterns called situations. We show how these situation patterns can be constructed by unifying the constituents of sentence analysis with knowledge previously stored in Typed Feature Structures. These situations can be in turn used subsequent...

The response of a semi-infinite ocean to slowly travelling atmospheric perturbation crossing the coast provides simple example breakdown nearly geostrophic balance induced by boundary. We examine this in linear shallow-water model at small Rossby number $\varepsilon \ll 1$. Using matched asymptotics we show that long Kelvin wave, with $O(\varepsilon^{-1})$ length scale and $O(\varepsilon)$ ampl...

B.Gajdzik, Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy,Katowice, Poland On the basis of report analysis which presents situation in metallurgical sector after 2008 the range of changes implemented in management of metallurgical enterprises was characterised. A defi nition approach to crisis management was suggested as the process when the enterprise is managed...

Pathogenesis of Fibrosis with Chronic Hepatitis C: Hepatic fibrosis is a dynamic scarring process in which chronic inflammation stimulates production and accumulation of collagen and extracellular matrix proteins. The hepatic stellate cells are the primary cells responsible for producing these extracellular matrix proteins. Over time, with chronic hepatitis C infection, the total collagen conte...

The association between chronic inflammation and cancer has been noted for at least a century but the exact molecular mechanisms of cancer initiation and promotion by such inflammation are still poorly understood. The gastrointestinal tract is a unique organ where maintaining a balance between the colonic epithelial cells, the immune system and a fine-tuned response to the resident microflora i...

Scheduling is an important subject of production and operations management area. In flow-shop scheduling, the objective is to obtain a sequence of jobs which when processed in a fixed order of machines, will optimize some well defined criteria. The concept of transportation time is very important in scheduling. Transportation can be done by robots. In situations that robots are used to transpor...

Pathogenesis of Fibrosis with Chronic Hepatitis C: Hepatic fibrosis is a dynamic scarring process in which chronic inflammation stimulates production and accumulation of collagen and extracellular matrix proteins. The hepatic stellate cells are the primary cells responsible for producing these extracellular matrix proteins. Over time, with chronic hepatitis C infection, the total collagen conte...

Pathogenesis of Fibrosis with Chronic Hepatitis C: Hepatic fibrosis is a dynamic scarring process in which chronic inflammation stimulates production and accumulation of collagen and extracellular matrix proteins. The hepatic stellate cells are the primary cells responsible for producing these extracellular matrix proteins. Over time, with chronic hepatitis C infection, the total collagen conte...

Pathogenesis of Fibrosis with Chronic Hepatitis C: Hepatic fibrosis is a dynamic scarring process in which chronic inflammation stimulates production and accumulation of collagen and extracellular matrix proteins. The hepatic stellate cells are the primary cells responsible for producing these extracellular matrix proteins. Over time, with chronic hepatitis C infection, the total collagen conte...