In this paper we describe our submission for iCLEF2006: an interface that allows users to search FLICKR in Arabic for images with captions in a range of languages. We report and discuss the results gained from a user experiment in accordance with directives given by iCLEF, including an analysis of the success of search tasks. To enable the searching of multilingual image annotations we use Engl...

This study compared the spatial representation of numbers in three groups of adults: Canadians, who read both English words and Arabic numbers from left to right; Palestinians, who read Arabic words and Arabic-Indic numbers from right to left; and Israelis, who read Hebrew words from right to left but Arabic numbers from left to right. Canadians associated small numbers with left and large numb...

Abstract This paper describes patterns of number use in spoken and written English the main factors that contribute to these patterns. We analysed more than 1.7 million occurrences numbers between 0 a billion British National Corpus, including conversational speech, presentational speech (e.g., lectures, interviews), imaginative writing fiction), informative academic books). find four affect fr...

The universal use of Arabic numbers in mathematics raises a question whether these digits are processed the same way in people speaking various languages, such as Chinese and English, which reflect differences in Eastern and Western cultures. Using functional MRI, we demonstrated a differential cortical representation of numbers between native Chinese and English speakers. Contrasting to native...

BACKGROUND Significant health disparities exist between limited English proficient and English-proficient patients. Little is known about the impact of language services on chronic disease outcomes such as for diabetes. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To determine whether the amount and type of language services received during primary care visits had an impact on diabetes-related outcomes (hospit...