This study employs a knowledge intensive corpus analysis to identify the elements of the communicative context which can be used to determine the appropriate lexical and grammatical form of instructional texts. imagene, an instructional text generation system based on this analysis, is presented, particularly with reference to its expression of precondition relations.

Evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the major components of hydrologic cycle. Accurate estimation of this parameter is essential for studies such as water balance, irrigation system design and management, and water resources management. Generally we used climate data for calculating evapotranspiration from indirect methods. This study investigates the utility of artificial neural networks (ANNs) ...

A brief history of development of the 1985 Hargreaves equation and its comparison to evapotranspiration ~ET! predicted by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations ~FAO! Penman-Monteith method are described to provide background and information helpful in selecting an appropriate reference ET equation under various data situations. Early efforts in irrigation water requiremen...

Estimated daily reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) is normally used to determine the water requirement of crops using the crop factor method. Many ETo estimation methods have been developed for different types of climatic data, and the accuracy of these methods varies with climatic conditions. In this study, pair−wise comparisons were made between daily ETo estimated from eight different E...

It is well known that lesions affecting the trigeminal nerve may lead to the development ofneurotrophic keratitis (Magendie, I 824), but the incidence and the extent of the keratitis seen by biomicroscopic examination of the cornea, and in particular its effect upon visual acuity, are not well documented. The present study was undertaken to investigate these aspects of keratitis, in corneae ren...

Hydrological models require accurate precipitation and air temperature inputs in order to adequately depict water fluxes and storages across Arctic regions. Biases such as gauge undercatch, as well as uncertainties in numerical weather prediction reanalysis data that propagate through water budget models, limit the ability to accurately model the terrestrial arctic water cycle. A hydrological m...

The natural language sentence generation program Penman provides computational technology for generating English sentences and paragraphs, starting with input specifications of a non-linguistic kind. The research goals underlying Penman are threefold: to provide a useful and theoretically motivated resource for other research and development groups and the computational community at large, to p...

References 1. Reynolds BC, Penman DM, Howatson AG, Jackson LA, Skeoch CH. Multifocal multi-organ ischaemia and infarction in a preterm baby due to maternal intravenous cocaine use: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2009;3:9324. 2. Reynolds BC, Penman DM, Howatson AG, Jackson LA, Skeoch CH. Multifocal multi-organ ischaemia and infarction in a preterm baby due to maternal intravenous cocaine use: a ...