CPI Special Issue: “Having Tea at the Empress”

Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions: Having a crack at a hard nut

Multiword expressions are an integral part of language. Their heterogeneous characteristics have proved a challenge to both linguistic and computational analysis. Their importance to language technology has long been recognised. In this special issue we include ten papers which propose a variety of approaches for finding and handling these expressions, both for building general purpose lexical ...

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Special Issue Synesthetic Colors Determined by Having Colored Refrigerator Magnets

Synesthesia is a condition in which percepts in one modality reliably elicit secondary perceptions in the same or a different modality that are not in the stimulus. In a common manifestation, synesthetes see colors in response to spoken or written letters, words and numbers. In this paper we demonstrate that the particular colors seen by a grapheme-color synesthete AED were learned from a set o...

MoD Special Issue on interactions at the neurovascular interface

Both the vasculature and the nervous system form extensively branched networks in the vertebrate body, interact with very different tissue environments and establish connections over long distances. Although there are many obviousmorphological, functional andmolecular differences between blood vessels and nerve fibers, striking conceptual similarities in the assembly of these networks through g...

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...