This paper examines language and number understanding in infants with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome and compares infant performance to that of adults. The crosssyndrome/ cross-domain studies demonstrate that the pattern of performance of infants with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome on two tasks assessing language and number cannot be derived from the pattern of profi ciencies and impa...

Do environments or species traits that lower the mortality of individuals create selection for delaying senescence? Reading literature creates an impression mathematically oriented biologists cannot agree on validity George Williams' prediction (who claimed 'yes'). The abundance models and opinions may bewilder those are new to field. Here we provide heuristics as well simple outline when Willi...

We propose an approach towards automatic generation of lexical exercises for learners of English. The techniques and tools used for generation of five different exercise types are described. We provide examples and evaluate the quality of generated exercises. We also compare the exercises generated on the basis of two different corpora by conducting an experiment. In the experiment learners com...

In the first exercise series you are requested to experiment with the model checker Spin. Spin is installed on the practicum SUN machines. We recommend to use the compute server demeter via remote login. To get things running, you should use this little shell script: #!/bin/sh

Texture segmentation and Williams syndrome 2 Abstract Williams syndrome (WS) is a developmental disorder in which visuo-spatial cognition is poor relative to verbal ability. At the level of visuo-spatial perception, individuals with WS can perceive both the local and global aspects of an image. However, the manner in which local elements are integrated into a global whole is atypical, with rela...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder with a striking neurobehavioral profile characterized by extreme sociability and impaired visuospatial construction abilities, is caused by a hemideletion that includes the elastin gene, resulting in frequent supravavular aortic stenosis and other stenotic arterial lesions. Strokes have been reported in Williams syndrome. Althoug...