The aim of this paper is to study some characteristics of dependency flux, that is the set of dependencies linking a word on the left with a word on the right in a given position. Based on an exploration of the whole set of UD treebanks (12M word corpus), we show that what we have called the flux weight, which measures center embeddings, is less than 3 in 99.62 % of the inter-word positions and...

Urbanization is a major driver of land use change and global environmental decline. With accelerated urbanization worldwide, it is essential to put in place new policies to conserve urban ecosystems, species and the services these provide in order to secure more sustainable, resilient and livable cities for the 21st century. In urban planning, the concept of resilience has broadly replaced the ...

Universal Dependencies incur a high cost in computation for unbiased system development. We propose a 100% empirically chosen small subset of UD languages for efficient parsing system development. The technique used is based on measurements of model capacity globally. We show that the diversity of the resulting representative language set is superior to the requirements-based procedure.

Rapid urbanization has occurred in northwestern China, threatening the sustainability of its fragile dryland ecosystems. A lack of precise urban land-cover information has limited our understanding on the urbanization in the dryland. Here, we examined urban land-cover changes from 2000 to 2014 in 21 major cities that comprise over 50% of the developed land in arid China, using Landsat Enhanced ...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the gender bias in paediatric patients referred for free cardiac treatment as part of School Health Programme at a tertiary care centre in North India. METHODS A total of 537 children were referred for further management of congenital heart disease or rheumatic heart disease. Of these, 519 underwent cardiac intervention, and the data from their records were analysed retr...

INTRODUCTION Family history of certain chronic diseases is a risk factor for those diseases. We assessed demographic characteristics associated with familial risk for common diseases and whether familial risk was associated with intent to share family history with a health care provider among urban Appalachian women. METHODS Urban Appalachian women (N = 88) with less than a college education ...

BACKGROUND In India alone, more than one million people die yearly due to trauma. Identification of patients at risk of early mortality is crucial to guide clinical management and explain prognosis. Prediction models can support clinical judgement, but existing models have methodological limitations. The aim of this study was to derive a vital sign based prediction model for early mortality amo...

background: to estimate and compare prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult people across the 22 districts of tehran in 2011.   method s: this was a cross-sectional study using data on 47,406 women and 47,525 men aged≥ 15 years from a large population-based survey (urban heart-2). age-standardized prevalence (asp) of overweight (25≤bmi< 30) and obesity (bmi≥30) were estimated for the t...

Background The objective of this study was to examine the relation of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) to coronary heart disease in Japanese men whose serum total cholesterol is low by Western standards. Methods and Results A prospective, observational study based on 7.7 years of follow-up for incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke was conducted. The subjects were 6408 middl...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test whether the association between primary care and income inequality on all-cause, heart disease and cancer mortality at county level differs in urban (Metropolitan Statistical Area-MSA) compared with non-urban (non-MSA) areas. STUDY DESIGN The study consisted of a cross-sectional analysis of county-level data stratified by MSA and non-MSA areas...