In this paper, we consider the challenge of designing context-aware applications, stressing especially on the usefulness of elaborating process models with semiotic norms. Such an elaboration can bring value in specifying and elaborating complex behaviors that may include alternative (context-driven) processes (we assume that a user context space can be defined and that each context state withi...

This talk discusses the nature of different kinds of scales and controversies over issues on the generation of scalar implicatures, particularly those in complex sentences involving disjunction and another operator in its scope, and so on. The pragmatic position based on Gricean reasoning in opposition to the grammatical position based on alternative semantics and LF syntax employing the exhaus...

NOTE: This is a first draft of the RMSPG report. It needs substantial polishing, is definitely too long and still, in places, incomplete. However, we post it in this preliminary state in order to invite community input at a stage when input can still help us shape the final report. We trust that the unevenness and imperfection will be recognized for its preliminary nature (“warts and all”). We ...

BrMedJ 1990;300:590-2 Portal vein thrombosis may be the first presentation of a hypercoagulable state. We report a case that illustrates a diagnostic approach to show the extent of the splanchnic venous thrombus and to investigate its haematological aetiology. The discussion focused on the association between portal vein thrombosis and myeloproliferative disease and controversies in managing th...

We document a 3-year-old healthy African American girl who developed malignant melanoma on her lower extremity. The clinical appearance offered little indication of the lesion's severity (T4), and only the history of de novo presentation and disproportionate growth raised clinical suspicion. This case report highlights the subtle clinical findings of this condition and presents controversies re...