mental retardation (mr) is one of the most frequently found major genetic disorders around the world, affecting 1-3% of the people in the general population. the recent advancement in molecular biology and cytogenetic study has made possible the identification of new genes for a variety of genetic disorders including autosomal recessive mr. recessive genetic disorders are common in pakistan due...

Storytelling is a new way to guide museum visitors, where the traditional set of exhibit-centric descriptions is replaced by storycentric cohesive narrations with carefully-designed references to the exhibits. Personalized storytelling customizes the narrations according to different user characteristics, either statically or dynamically during the visit. In this paper, we describe the basic el...

Dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche sur la conception d’observatoires de pratiques agricoles, nous nous intéressons au recueil et à la formalisation des expériences passées, sur la base desquelles nous voulons bâtir un système d’aide à la conception de tels observatoires. Nous disposons pour cela de corpus d’entretiens où des responsables d’observatoires relatent leur expérience. Dans ces na...

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION In Western societies, an infant's crying often causes anxiety in parents. Educational and empowerment paths of parenthood could be useful to overcome these difficulties (Hiscock 2004). AIMS Design and implement a pilot test of an educational path with a group of infants' (0-3 months) parents to support them in the acceptance of their chil...

In this paper we present the results of a qualitative study regarding the experiences evoked by today's technology. Our goal was to gain better understanding on the content, generation and progression of everyday experiences of users with all kinds of artifacts such as computer software, mobile devices, consumer products and even hardware tools. We conducted semifocused interviews with the goal...

In this paper, a system is described that can understand a plot of a story on reference to both image and linguistic information. As input, a series of line drawings with colors and narrations in English concerning to these drawings are given to the system. It searches the objects suggested to be in the scene by the narrations, finding relations among them, making the world model by using its w...

This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and phrases. Results showed that the degree of final lengthe...

OBJECTIVE To describe the growth pattern from birth to 2 years of UK-born white British and Pakistani infants. DESIGN Birth cohort. SETTING Bradford, UK. PARTICIPANTS 314 white British boys, 383 Pakistani boys, 328 white British girls and 409 Pakistani girls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Weight and length trajectories based on repeat measurements from birth to 2 years. RESULTS Linear spline ...

BACKGROUND Maternal obesity increases women's risk of poor birth outcomes, and statistics show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi women (who are born or settled) in the UK experience higher rates of perinatal mortality and congenital anomalies than white British or white Other women. This study compares the prevalence of maternal obesity in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and white British women usi...