Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords. They are, however, found frequently in languages from across the world. There is, to our knowledge, no general synthesis of Wanderwörter patterns, causes of exceptionally high borrowing rates for particu...

Triggers have been adopted as an important database feature and implemented by most major database vendors. Despite their diverse potential usages, one of the obstacles that hinder the triggers from its wide deployment is the lack of tools that aid users to create complex trigger rules in a simple manner. Although the majority of the users of triggers are DBAs or savvy end-users, writing trigge...

ion, to the ‘movement’ of a detached frog’s leg. A teaching of this type might be developed in a number of ways. It is of course consistent with its central thought that the dictates of this virtue might, in respect of a given pair of agents, be massively aVected by some of the so-called social practices under which the pair happen together to fall. Similarly, Hume’s doctrine is consistent with...

The lion's share of datalog features have been incorporated into the SQL3 standard proposal. However, most SQL manuals still recommend to implement user-de ned conditions for data integrity nondeclaratively, by triggers or stored procedures. We describe how to implement known declarative database technology for integrity checking in SQL databases. We show how to represent and evaluate arbitrari...

While the pharmacological actions ofadrenergic beta receptor blocking agents specially those pertaining to cardiovascular system have been investigated in detail, there are only scattered reports dealing with their pulmonary vascular effects. Propranolol was shown to exert a variable effect on pulmonary arterial pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance (18). [4-( 2-isopropylamino-I-hydroxyeth...