PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess differences in acculturation, knowledge, beliefs, and stages of readiness for mammograms from pre- to postintervention among Korean American women aged 40 years or older. DESIGN Prospective, repeated measures, quasi-experimental. SETTING A Korean American senior center in the midwestern United States. SAMPLE 300 Korean American women aged 40 years or older wit...

We describe multi-lingual text generation as an alternative to automatic translation in specified technical sublanguages, illustrating the notion with the implemented RAREAS-2 system for synthesizing marine weather forecasts in English and French. We then review the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) of Mel'cuk et al. as we have applied it to text generation in the GOSSIP system for producing English re...

The class of string languages obtained by taking the yields of output tree languages of total deterministic macro tree transducers (MTTs) is investigated. The rst main result is that MTTs which are linear and nondeleting in the parameters generate the same class of string languages as total deterministic top-down tree transducers. The second main result is a so called \bridge theorem"; it can b...

In a number of works, Rudolf Carnap provided ingenious and systematic approaches to the understanding of scientific knowledge (see, for instance, Carnap 1928, 1934, 1947, 1950a, b). As is well known, his proposals faced three important changes: (i) the early phenomenalism of the Logische Aufbau der Welt (Carnap 1928) was replaced by the physicalism of Logische Syntax der Sprache (Carnap 1934); ...

Subsurface-tile drainage is designed to remove gravitational water and soluble salts from the soil-root zone. However, soil swelling, as influenced by soil Na and electrical conductivity (EC), will reduce saturated hydraulic conductivity. The objective of this research was to determine the influence of Na and EC on the amount of water retained at field capacity (33 kPa), in northern Great Plain...