Abstract Empirical and theoretical arguments are presented against a framesemantic grounding of construction grammar thus holistic unification meaning world knowledge. A modular conception is the basis interplay between projection in Goldberg (1995). Goldberg’s attempt to include frame semantics at odds with this foundation must be considered failure. The same true for continuation by Boas (200...

Neural tube defects result from failure of neural tube fusion during early embryogenesis, the fourth week after conception. The spectrum of severity is not uniform across the various forms of this congenital anomaly as certain presentations are not compatible with extrauterine life (anencephaly) while, on the other hand, other defects may remain undiagnosed as they are entirely asymptomatic (oc...

Notwithstanding the many recent advances, software maintenance remains a serious problem that is not well catered for in the software design process. This situation partly results from a failure to fully recognize the changing nature of requirements and the contextual environment throughout the software life cycle (from conception to obsolescence). A more creative approach, dealing better with ...

Following success with adrenergic blockade and inhibition of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis, many physicians have believed that blockade of other neurohormonal systems will also prove to be beneficial in patients with heart failure (HF). However, recent data suggest that it is time to change our conception of how to improve survival and symptoms in these patients. We have seen that anta...

The demonstration of the transplantability of cancers gave early impetus to the conception of autonomy and led immediately to the hope that their independent nature would eliminate species barriers and allow growth in alien hosts. Numerous experiments were performed with this point in view, but the majority of workers have reported failure or results of a controversial nature, so that at the pr...

Failure detection protocols—a fundamental building block for crafting fault-tolerant distributed systems—are in many cases described by their authors making use of informal pseudo-codes of their conception. Often these pseudo-codes use syntactical constructs that are not available in COTS programming languages such as C or C++. This translates into informal descriptions that call for ad hoc int...

The development of ventricular assist devices (VADs) over the past 5 decades as therapy for advanced heart failure (HF) has been extraordinary. Since the original VAD design by Michael DeBakey in the early 1960s, numerous devices for mechanical circulatory support have been engineered, assessed in preclinical studies, applied to human patients in large multicenter clinical trials, and now, sele...

^ a condition in which death occurs immediately, and ?ne in which symptoms appear in such an insidious fanner that the patient scarcely discerns their onset, spite of the apparent disparity of these two extremes, e Underlying principle is the same, i.e. the heart Muscle has been damaged. When an individual cannot ^intain an efficient circulation during the performance the usual activities of da...