OBJECTIVE To describe adaptation strategies in terms of joint power or work in the amputated and intact leg of patients with a transtibial (TT) or transfemoral (TF) amputation. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, CINAHL, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, Embase, and the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials were searched. Studies were collected up to November 1, 2010. Reference lists were additionally scru...

Computational semantics is the business of associating meaning representations with natural language expressions and drawing inferences from them. It is an area that has matured to a state in which we have seen the arrival of broad coverage systems capable of producing deep semantic representations for open-domain texts. Such systems however face the problem of selecting appropriate background ...

Participants in a negative or a neutral mood performed an impression formation task in Experiment 1, a word fragment completion task in Experiment 2, and both tasks in Experiment 3. A self-referent versus other-referent sentence completion task was used to induce a negative mood. As a result, participants exhibited fewer mood-congruent effects on impression rating in the self-referent than in t...

We investigated two main components of infant declarative pointing, reference and attitude, in two experiments with a total of 106 preverbal infants at 1;0. When an experimenter (E) responded to the declarative pointing of these infants by attending to an incorrect referent (with positive attitude), infants repeated pointing within trials to redirect E's attention, showing an understanding of E...