Background: Asthma is a chronic multifactorial disease with a high prevalence. Among asthma risk factors, the effect of baking in wood tenor ovens (traditional form of baking) on bronchial asthma is still debated. The aim of this study was to determine the association between baking in wood tenor ovens and incidence and control of bronchial asthma. Materials and Methods: This descriptive stu...

background: asthma is a chronic multifactorial disease with a high prevalence. among asthma risk factors, the effect of baking in wood tenor ovens (traditional form of baking) on bronchial asthma is still debated. the aim of this study was to determine the association between baking in wood tenor ovens and incidence and control of bronchial asthma. materials and methods: this descriptive study ...

In Hong Kong, 35% of residential mortgage loans are adjustable rate mortgages with variable tenor (VRT). That is, with a change in interest rates, the loan adjusts its maturity and principal payment such that the monthly installment remains the same. In other words, instead of bearing a volatility on monthly payments as in a ®xed-tenor variable payment (VRP) mortgage, VRT mortgagors bear intere...

The paper examines tenor in electronic media discourse in Nigeria. Tenor is one of the register variables identified by Systemic linguistics. The paper looks at how preachers use their social role to relate with their audience in such media discourses as radio, television and the Internet. The preacher is usually the dominant speaker so he determines how his imaginary audience will respond to h...

There is an evident correlation between semantic distance and creativity in the treatment of metaphor. When the tenor and vehicle concepts of a metaphor are semantic neighbors, the local structure of the taxonomy can be used to constrain any interpretations and thus significantly curtail the breadth of the search space. This reliance on taxonomy makes WordNet ideally suited to the treatment of ...

We de ne within-vehicle and within-tenor reasoning to be reasoning that is done on-they within the vehicle domain or tenor domain, respectively, of a conceptual metaphor, during the comprehension of utterances that manifest the metaphor. The main claim of this paper is that, at least in Arti cial Intelligence systems for understanding metaphorical discourse, within-vehicle reasoning is often be...