Free indirect discourse (FID) is one of the many varieties of reported speech. It is commonly agreed that passages in FID have to be interpreted relative to two context parameters , the narrator context C and the context of speech/thought of the protagonist c. While temporal and local shifting indexicals have received ample discussion in the literature, shiftable reference to the speaker i...

In this paper, we present our case-based browsing advisor for the Web, called BROADWAY. BROADWAY follows a group of users during their navigations and supports an indirect collaboration to recommend Web pages to visit next. BROADWAY uses case-based reasoning to reuse precise experiences extracted from past navigations with a time-extended situation assessment, i.e. the recommendations are based...

Sea-urchin spermatozoa, unlike those of mammals, do not obtain the energy necessary for movement by the enzymatic breakdown of substrates in the external medium. The evidence for this view is twofold: first, these spermatozoa are capable of prolonged activity when suspended in pure sea water; secondly, there is no obvious substrate in the normal external medium, seminal plasma diluted with sea ...

unselected children (sic) so that the relative difficulty of the designs used seemed to be fairly well established. Since the publications of Kohs' standardization, the writer has used that method, which involves the use of cards, with a fair number of subjects. He has not yet overcome his prejudice in favor of; a straight imitation method, though he occasionally uses this material as a memory ...