Conversational New Guinea Pidgin

The function of Student Pidgin in Ghana

New Guinea

139 children with bacteriological or histological proof of active tuberculosis were given the Mantoux tuberculin test while they were inpatients at Port Moresby General Hospital. Only half (70) of the children had positive results (induration of at least 5 mm). Of the 35 children under 2 years, 25 (71 %) showed no reaction whatsoever. Malnutrition, assessed by weight for age, did not appear to ...

New Guinea challenge

filled in later by what he hoped would be a more cooperative, post-Bush US government. Some diplomats mistakenly thought Gore was telling them to give up their tough stance at Bali. The biggest bit of theater wasn't generally reported as theater at all. And that was a European push to include non-binding language in the preamble of the Bali Roadmap. That language called on developed nations to ...

Babel Pidgin: SBSE Can Grow and Graft Entirely New Functionality into a Real World System

Adding new functionality to an existing, large, and perhaps poorly-understood system is a challenge, even for the most competent human programmer. We introduce a ‘grow and graft’ approach to Genetic Improvement (GI) that transplants new functionality into an existing system. We report on the trade offs between varying degrees of human guidance to the GI transplantation process. Using our approa...

The Kernel Story: a New Conversational Genre?

In a recent study of storytelling in women's rap groups, Susan Kalcik isolates a type of narrative which she calls the kernel story. Kalcik defines the kernel story as one in which the narrator tells the most important part of the story, namely its kernel, first instead of leading up to it ( 1 9 7 5 ) . In this paper I shall present a personal experience story which seems to fit this definition...