The very essence of Peircean semiotics is the process through which an object is represented by a sign and creates another sign. This means that Peircean semiotics bas ically constitutes a theory of representation. This implies that the object and the sign cannot be the same and hence sign displacements occur in the cognitive processes. When dividing the Peircean sign types into signs of nature...

In this paper, we study the existence of solutions for quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations of the form A(u) + g(x, u,∇u) = h, where A is a Leray-Lions operator from W 1,p 0 (Ω, w) to its dual. On the nonlinear term g(x, s, ξ), we assume growth conditions on ξ, not on s, and a sign condition on s.

Fractional Bessel processes are defined and considering the processes associated with fractional Bessel processes 1 2 1 ), ( )) ( ( ) ( 0 < < = ∫ H t dB s B sign t X H t H H ) ( ) ( ) ( 1 0 s dB s R B t Y j H d

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In computed tomographic imaging of acute intracerebral hemorrhage spot sign on computed tomographic angiography has been established as a marker for hematoma expansion and poor clinical outcome. Although, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can accurately visualize acute intracerebral hemorrhage, a corresponding MRI marker is lacking to date. METHODS We prospectively exami...

Facial expressions in sign language carry a variety of communicative features. While emotion can modulate a spoken utterance through changes in intonation, duration and intensity, in sign language specific facial expressions presented concurrently with a manual sign perform this function. When deaf adult signers cannot see facial features, their ability to judge emotion in a signed utterance is...

Objective: Characteristic skin findings in dermatomyositis (DM) include Gottron’s papules (Gp), heliotrope rash (He) and shawl or V (S/V) sign. Noted in dermatology publications is a violaceous rash over the lateral hip, called the “Holster sign.” Our objective was to determine the incidence of the Holster sign (HS) in comparison to other DM cutaneous signs and to raise rheumatologists’ awarene...

We give a specific method to solve with quadratic complexity the linear systems arising in known algorithms to deal with the sign determination problem, both in the univariate and multivariate setting. In particular, this enables us to improve the complexity bound for sign determination in the univariate case to O(sd2 log d), where s is the number of polynomials involved and d is a bound for th...

The de novo immune response to infectious organisms arises from the innate recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by the host's pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). As the generation of type 2 cytokine responses by the human trematode parasite Schistosoma mansoni is glycan mediated, there is a particular potential role for a C-type lectin receptor (CLR) to mediate the in...