In this paper, we target the extraction of whole-part relations involving human entities and body-part nouns occurrences in texts using STRING, a hybrid statistical and rule-based Natural Language Processing chain for Portuguese. Whole-part relation is a semantic relation between an entity that is perceived as a constituent part of another entity, or a member of a set.

The question of how our body parts successfully interact with objects in the outside world is a fundamental problem in cognitive science and neuroscience. This problem is closely related to biologically important behaviors such as avoiding collisions or safely reaching for an object. Although previous studies have suggested that perceiving the space around one's own body is essential for intera...

Dedicated neural systems represent the space surrounding the body, termed Peripersonal space (PPS), by integrating visual or auditory stimuli occurring near the body with somatosensory information. As a behavioral proxy to PPS, we measured participants' reaction time to tactile stimulation while task-irrelevant auditory or visual stimuli were presented at different distances from their body. In...

Our recent literature survey indicated a lack of clinical assessment of the influence of gender and site of burn injury on the outcome of patients with extensive burns. This report examines the effect of burn sites and gender on extensive burns’ mortality.Data was gathered from 283 patients with burns larger than 65% of the total body surface area (TBSA) above the belt line or below the belt li...