ELLIS-van CREVELD SYNDROME IN A NIGERIAN WOMAN: A CASE STUDY 1 2 1 1 AHMADU MS, TALLEMA, AHIDJO A, TAHIR AA Ellis-van Creveld (EVC) syndrome or chondroectodermal dysplasia is a rare, autosomal recessive th disorder that was first described by Ellis and van Creveld in the mid-20 century.The syndrome is characterized by a tetrad of chondrodystrophy, post axial polydactyly, and hidrotic ectodermal...

With this opening sentence, Albert Spaulding introduced a now commonly used statistical procedure to archaeology called chi-square analysis. Spaulding was dissatisfied by typological procedures in common use at the time, and sought to make typology rigorous, replicable, and scientific. Most archaeologists at the time created archaeological types by putting artifacts together on a table, and the...

Address correspondence to: Susan Corey, PhD, Institute of Neurobiology 201 Blvd del Valle, San Juan, PR 00901. Tel: 787-721-4149, ext 222 • Fax: 787-721-4584 • E-mail: [email protected] Background: The CYP2D6 liver enzyme, which metabolizes 25-30% of common medications, is highly polymorphic. Existing studies of Hispanics have focused on Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. The goal of the study w...

This paper describes LIMSI’s submissions to the shared WMT’13 translation task. We report results for French-English, German-English and Spanish-English in both directions. Our submissions use n-code, an open source system based on bilingual n-grams, and continuous space models in a post-processing step. The main novelties of this year’s participation are the following: our first participation ...