Jones College freshman Alisha Giles, Lovett sophomore Clifton Confident, Hanszen senior Daryl Shorter and Wless Junior Chri&Carr, part of the Melodious Voices of Praise, performed gospel songs at the Coffeehouse Tuesday night in honor of Black History Month. Rice and Fondren Library now have access T7T UNIVerse , a W e b interface to LEXJR-NEX1S. Coordinator of Collection Development and Electr...

Traditional Estonian dialect classifications are based on the phonology, morphology, and lexis, and there are very few studies about syntax available. The present paper is the first quantitative syntactic study of Estonian dialects. We concentrate on constructions consisting of finite and non-finite verbs, and we apply contemporary statistical methods to explore the syntactic variation. Our res...

1 THE FRAMEWORK The Functional Generative Description (FGD, see Sgall, 1967, Sgall et al., 1986) was applied as a general framework for the development of the valency theory (see Panevová, 1974-75, 1980, 1994) as well as for the design of the Czech syntactically annotated corpus (PDT, see Hajič, 1998, Hajičová et al., 2001). Valency is understood as a lexico-syntactic attribute of a word – more...

Liver X receptors (LXRs) are transcriptional regulators of cellular and systemic cholesterol homeostasis. Under conditions of excess cholesterol, LXR activation induces the expression of several genes involved in cholesterol efflux, facilitates cholesterol esterification by promoting fatty acid synthesis, and inhibits cholesterol uptake by the low-density lipoprotein receptor. The fact that ste...

e-mail has become an important means of electronic communication but the viability of its usage is marred by Unsolicited Bulk e-mail (UBE) messages. UBE consists of many types like pornographic, virus infected and 'cry-for-help' messages as well as fake and fraudulent offers for jobs, winnings and medicines. UBE poses technical and socio-economic challenges to usage of e-mails. To meet this cha...

This article deals with the analysis of the semantic content of the anonymous Russian-speaking forum 2ch.hk, different verbal means of expressing of the emotional state of aggression are revealed for this site, and aggression is classified by its directions. The lexis of different Russian-and Englishspeaking anonymous forums (2ch.hk and iichan.hk, 4chan.org) and public community “MDK” of the Ru...

The paper aims to propose to add pragmatic characteristic tags for lexis to actual tag set in monolingual dictionaries, and use them to make an automatic acception links on the Papillon database. We have three motivations for proposing it : First, information on pragmatics of lexis is, namely for non-native speakers, indispensable from user oriented viewpoint, in order to give whole information...

1. The framework The Functional Generative Description (FGD, see Sgall, 1967, Sgall et al., 1986) was applied as a general framework for the development of the valency theory (see Panevová, 1974-75, 1980, 1994) as well as for the design of the Czech syntactically annotated corpus (PDT, see Hajič, 1998, Hajičová et al., 2001). Valency is understood as a lexico-syntactic attribute of a word – mor...