Identification of inorganic substances in the lung is an important step towards the establishment of a cause and effect relationship in the study of pneumoconiosis. The conventional methods for this identification usually require an ashing which makes it difficult to study the localisation of these substances in relation to pathology. A method is described to identify foreign substances in the ...

Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine one channel through which international financial integration can promote growth. For the period 1980-1997, we find that after controlling for other policies and fundamentals, stock market liberalizations are associated with a significant increase in the share of imports of machinery and equipmen...

We focus on the problem of building large repositories of lexical conceptual structure (LCS) representations for verbs in multiple languages. One of the main results of this work is the deenition of a relation between broad semantic classes and LCS meaning components. Our acquisition program|LEXICALL|takes, as input, the result of previous work on verb classiication and thematic grid tagging, a...

INTRODUCTION Epulis granulomatosa is a lesion which grows from an extraction socket. It can be misdiagnosed with lesions of the same clinical appearance such as: foreign body or pyogenic granuloma, or as a herniation of the maxillary sinus. The most common treatment is surgical excision. CASE REPORT The present article reports an Epulis granulomatosa which was removed with diode laser (810 nm...

This article describes Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in relation to interactive approach to reading. The author has designed an experiment on the speed of reading on the screen with adequate comprehension and the traditional method of text reading in the classroom. Compared with the traditional classroom methodology, the author raises questions whether computers are a challenge to ...

The notion of phonetic convergence covers all adaptations in articulatory and acoustic features towards those of a communicative partner, or in other terms an increase in segmental and suprasegmental similarity between them (Pardo 2006). Up until now most of the experiments on convergence were designed for monolingual dyads, with very few investigations of convergence in native-nonnative intera...

We test the relation between ambiguity aversion and five household portfolio choice puzzles: nonparticipation in equities, low allocations to equity, home-bias, own-company stock ownership, and portfolio under-diversification. In a representative US household survey, we measure ambiguity preferences using custom-designed questions based on Ellsberg urns. As theory predicts, ambiguity aversion i...

Single or multiple plastic films (unplasticized vinyl chloride vinyl acetate copolymer) of different sizes and shapes were implanted s.c. in female CBA/H and CBA/H-T6 mice. Tumor incidence increased and accelerated with increased total surface area of multiple implants or with increased size of single implants. Tumor distribution curves over time were generally multiphasic. The profiles changed...

Advances in technology and social media have caused an avalanche of possible texts for use in pronunciation teaching. This article explores how the use of short digital videos can revolutionize the teaching of pronunciation in a second or foreign language. Their use is first examined pedagogically in relation to three areas: student engagement, speech perception and second language identity. Th...