This paper! reports on foundational considerations for experiments into the acquisition of human-like use and understanding of negation in linguistic utterances via a developmental robotics approach. For this purpose different taxonomies of negation in early child language are analysed in order to show the large variety of communicative functions that these different types of negation have. Req...

We are developing a new device which is aimed at supporting non-speaking individuals in literacy learning. The PhonicStick provides direct access to spoken phonics a set of phonemes used in the literacy learning program Jolly Phonics which can then be blended into words. In an initial study, children were able to generate novel words using the first level subset of six phonics. However, the ful...

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Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery (JHPS) is not the only place where work in the field of hip preservation may be published. Although our aim is to offer the best of the best, we continue to be fascinated by work that finds it way into journals other than our own. There is much to learn from it so JHPS has selected six recent and topical articles for those who seek a brief summary of what is ...

AUTOREGULATION is defined as the capacity of an organ or tissue to maintain a constant blood flow in the face of a change in perfusion pressure, while metabolism is unchanged. Under normal physiological conditions, large proximal arteries contribute little to the total resistance of a particular vascular bed. However, when atherosclerosis causes a conductance artery to narrow so that over 70% o...