The problem of quantitatively comparing tile performance of different broad-coverage grammars of English has to date resisted solution. Prima facie, known English grammars appear to disagree strongly with each other as to the elements of even tile simplest sentences. For instance, the grammars of Steve Abney (Bellcore), Ezra Black (IBM), Dan Flickinger (IIewlett Packard), Claudia Gdaniec (Logos...

the author's style or to the nature of the translation; however, some passages are misleading, a particularly worrisome fault in a book intended for novices. For instance, the following sentence implies that there is no cardiopulmonary circulation: "As already emphasised in the section on brain metabolism, the supply of nourishment originating in the liver reaches the brain via the vascular sys...

Nine commercial varieties of pineapples in Malaysia (Josapine, Maspine, MD2, Sarawak, Gandul, N36, Moris, Crystal Honey and Yankee) were collected from various places Peninsular analysed for cultivar identifications using nine simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. A total 27 alleles have been observed which ranged 2 to 5 with an average 3 per locus. The polymorphic information content (PIC) val...

The manufacture of low density paper such as tissue and towel utilizes the creping process that consists of adhesively bonding the paper in wet state onto the surface of a smooth drying cylinder and scraping it off with a blade once the sheet is dry. In this paper, a fracture mechanics description of the creping process is presented. A mechanism of creping process is proposed as a periodic debo...

Cascading inventions and innovations in computer and communications technologies, and other technologies in the field of electronics and physics, have spawned numerous devices that represent a coalescence, or merging, of both technological and occupational functions. The one common thread in this process is the data resource, the raw material that these devices collect, process, and communicate...