ARSENICAL IDIOSYNCRASY.

Arsenical polyneuropathy due to caustic arsenical paste.

Arsenical Neuritis

use of impure acids containing arsenic used for the manufacture of glucose and " invert" sugar. The number of cases amounted to over 6,000 and of deaths to at least 70. Many deaths returned as due to, "alcoholic neuritis" "alcoholism," "locomotor ataxy," &c., were probably caused by arsenical poisoning. Since the exposure of the cause of the outbreak and discontinuance of the use of impure acid...

Lexical idiosyncrasy in MWE extraction

A wide scale of different NLP methods have been investigated for the extraction of Multiword Expressions from large corpora. While a good deal of recent research has been focusing on the development of reliable means to delineate different subclasses of MWEs with respect to the degree of their compositionality (Baldwin et al., 2003; McCarthy et al., 2003), it has been generally accepted that fo...

Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development

The world of ontology development is full of mysteries. Recently, ISO Standard 15926 (“Lifecycle Integration of Process Plant Data Including Oil and Gas Production Facilities”), a data model initially designed to support the integration and handover of large engineering artefacts, has been proposed by its principal custodian for general use as an upper level ontology. As we shall discover, ISO ...

Rational Idiosyncrasy and Monetary Integration

Erik Jones’s The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union is a tightly written book that provides a dense analytical overview of the issues surrounding economic and monetary integration within the European Union (EU). The jacket describes Jones’s book as a textbook, which seems apt given its basic structure and comprehensiveness. Indeed, the scope is impressive for such a short work. Jones begin...