Information Extraction (IE) often involves some amount of partial syntactic processing. This is clear in cases of interesting highlevel IE tasks, such as finding information about who did what to whom (when, where, how and why), but it is also true in case of simpler IE tasks, such as finding company names in texts. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of Slavonic phenomena which pose p...

a total of 14 cases of infective endocarditis (ie) in children aged 6 months to 10 years were seen from december 1987 to december 1992 at the pediatric unit of ayatollah taleghani medical center. the majority of patients (12 of 14) were between 5 and 10 years of age. acyanotic congenital heart disease was known to preexist in 78.6% and rheumatic valvular heart disease in 21.4% of cases. organis...

Unlike conventional wisdom, I find more constrained firms have significantly higher innovative efficiency (IE) measured by patent citations (or counts) per dollar of R&D (research and development). This constraints-IE relation is robust to measures of financial constraints, measures of IE, and different sets of control variables. Furthermore, this effect exists only among firms with strong mana...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

In the background where there are many factors affecting Japanese families such as decrease of children, change family structures, gender concept, etc., "family'' has become a noticeable issue attracting much attention nowadays. The type traditional named "IE'' was officially regulated in law during Meiji period. After war, legal status eliminated; however, reality, still remains popular. fact,...