Robert van Rooij (2006) proposed an analysis of counterfactual donkey sentences by combining the Stalnaker–Lewis analysis of counterfactuals with standard dynamic semantics. This paper points out some problems with van Rooij’s treatment of counterfactual sentences in the language of first-order logic and provides a new interpretation using dynamic semantics. 1 VAN ROOIJ’S THEORY OF COUNTERFACTUAL

Several Corpus Linguistics research groups have gone beyond collation of 'raw' text, to syntactic annotation of the text. However, linguists developing these linguistic resources have used quite different wordtagging and parse-tree labelling schemes in each of these annotated corpora. This restricts the accessibility of each corpus, making it impossible for speech and handwriting researchers to...

This study presents an investigation of Amiata donkey health and quality of milk for human consumption. Thirty-one lactating dairy jennies were examined. The following samples were collected: faecal samples from the rectum of animals for parasitological examination; cervical swabs for the detection of bacteria causing reproductive disorders; and blood samples for serological diagnosis of main z...

The testis of the donkey was completely descended into the scrotum around birth. It was covered by a thick tunica albuginea consisting of outer and inner fibrous layers in addition to middle vascular one. Discrete bundles of smooth muscle cells were demonstrated in the outer fibrous layer of the tunica albuginea. These cells give the tunica albuginea a contractile function, which may aid in spe...

Introduction This document describes how to use panp to perform gene detection (make presence/absence calls) on AffyMetrix HG-U133 series microarray data. Currently, the HG-U133A and HG-U133 Plus 2.0 are supported. panp operates on preprocessed microarray expression data as an ExpressionSet object. Any preprocessing method can be used to create the ExpressionSet, such as rma(), mas5(), expresso...

Members of the genus Gongylonema  are nematodes that commonly infect ruminants, particularly sheep and goats. An 11-year-old donkey mare was referred to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, northeastern Iran, with a history of acute colitis. At post-mortem examination, there were several white to pink zigzag tracks in the muco...