Current research in text mining favours the quantity of texts over their quality. But for bilingual terminology mining, and for many language pairs, large comparable corpora are not available. More importantly, as terms are defined vis-à-vis a specific domain with a restricted register, it is expected that the quality rather than the quantity of the corpus matters more in terminology mining. Ou...

Studies of the effect of individual differences on usage of information systems have yielded mixed results. This study examines the effect of individual differences on the perceived relative advantage (a concept akin to perceived usefulness) of using Group Support Systems (GSS) over traditional face-to-face meetings. Specifically, the current field study investigates the effect of oral and writ...

An iterative method for the low-rank approximate solution of a class of generalized Lyapunov equations is studied. At each iteration, a standard Lyapunov is solved using Galerkin projection with an extended Krylov subspace method. This Lyapunov equation is solved inexactly, thus producing a nonstationary iteration. Several theoretical and computational issues are discussed so as to make the ite...

on the basis of constitution and social and cultural contexts, each country has its own private international law system. concerning countries with federal system like the united states of america, conflict of laws not only may occur between laws of the united states and law of the other countries, but also in a distinctive manner, among states of the usa together. european :union: is in the sa...

An infl uential position in the philosophy of biology claims that there are no biological laws, since any apparently biological generalization is either too accidental, fact-like or contingent to be named a law, or is simply reducible to physical laws that regulate electrical and chemical interactions taking place between merely physical systems.2 In the following I will stress a neglected aspe...

Address reprint requests to Dr. Philip E. Cryer, Metabolism Division, Washington University School of Medicine. Received for publication 6 December 1982 and in revised form 21 March 1983. resulted in a progressive fall in mean plasma glucose to a hypoglycemic level late after glucose ingestion; the final glucose concentration was 40% lower (P < 0.02) than the control (epinephrine deficient) val...

It is a principle recognised not only by our own but by other legal systems that ignorance of the law is no excuse for violating it. This is also expressed in the form of a legal presumption that everyone knows the law. So it is the duty of every person to be acquainted with that part of it which concerns him or her. In recent years there have been a number of malpractice suits based on lack of...

This exploratory-descriptive survey was carried out with a sample consisting of 73 nurses from two hospitals in order to know the perception they have of their work via-a-vis patients' rights and develop an instrument capable of measuring such perception. Four constructs referring to the nurses' performance via-a-vis patients' rights were identified and validated, based on questions the nurses ...

The physical and chemical characteristics differ depending upon the pharmaceutical processing of medicated oils. These changes eventually influence the actions of these medicaments this particular aspect is highlighted in this article.