in Wilson's disease, and localization of iron in hemochromatosis. On pages 2 and 166, Birks discussed future trends in electron probe mocroanalysis, including lower cost instruments and those that will quantitate elements down to carbon. Such developments would open this microanalytic technique to the realm of the biologist. Birks writes with a crisp style, and with the insight of a worker in t...

It has been argued by LaPolla (1993, 1995) and Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) -among others -that word order in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth MC) is (almost) exclusively determined by informational/communicative considerations. Though it cannot be denied that word order does encode informative/communicative considerations such as identifiability, foregrounding, and focalization, it is argued here ...

This paper represents an approach to creating global knowledge systems, using new philosophy and infrastructure of global distributed semantic network (frame knowledge representation system, FRS) based on the space-time database construction. The main idea of space-time database environment introduced in the paper is to bind a document (an information frame, a knowledge) to a special kind of en...

Scattering muon radiography was proposed recently as a technique of detection and 3-d imaging for dense high-Z objects . High-energy cosmic ray muons are deflected in matter in the process of multiple Coulomb scattering . By measuring the deflection angles we are able to reconstruct the configuration of high-Z material in the object . We discuss the methods for information extraction from muon ...

User queries on the Web can be classified into three types according to user’s intention: informational query, navigational query and transactional query. In this paper, a query type classification method and Service Link information for transactional queries are proposed. Web mediated activity is usually implemented by hyperlinks. Hyperlinks can be good indicators in classifying queries and re...

The potential use of computer technology in teaching and continuous education for nursing motivated the development of this study to evaluate the virtual learning object, "Diagnostic Reasoning in Nursing Applied to Preterm Newborns" at an intermediate neonatal care unit. This descriptive study evaluates the appearance and content of the virtual object concerning aspects related to presentation,...

To improve cooperation between psychology of thinking and artificial intelligence, it could be useful to elucidate the present theoretical approaches to thinking. The latter have also been affected by cybernetics and computer science (informational approaches, problem space, heuristics computer simulation, frames and scripts). More recently, cognitive psychology has become crystallized, concent...