In honoring her alumni who have achieved success in the belles lettres, in diplomacy, in the writing of political philosophy, Yale University has always been most active, extraordinarily eager to recognize their attainment; but, strangely enough, she has forgotten a member of the class of 1778 who was considered a great poet, statesman and philosopher by many of his contemporaries. Of this emin...

in the greatest poetry of the world,value is equally distributed between form and content. among all kinds offormal specifications of a poem, phonetic specifications are of a greatsignificance and with respect to poem-level transcendence, they have a greatrole to play.in translating a poem, the translator must equally pay attentionto the transferance of both form and content. a poem's spec...

BACKGROUND High-resolution manometry (HRM) has improved the accuracy of manometry in detecting achalasia and has helped distinguish between clinically relevant subtypes. This study investigated whether HRM metrics correlate with the achalasia symptoms and symptomatic outcomes of peroral esophageal myotomy (POEM). METHODS Of the 30 patients who were enrolled, 25 were treated with POEM, 12 of w...

In this paper we present a specific application of SPARSAR, a system for poetry analysis and TextToSpeech “expressive reading”. We will focus on the graphical output organized at three macro levels, a Phonetic Relational View where phonetic and phonological features are highlighted; a Poetic Relational View that accounts for a poem rhyming and metrical structure; and a Semantic Relational View ...

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)-associated achalasia is a very rare disease of uncertain cause. We report the case of a patient diagnosed with GBS-associated type I achalasia who was successfully treated with peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). A 30-year-old man who was diagnosed with GBS 3 mo before was referred to our department with dysphagia and meal-related regurgitation. The results of esoph...