Ethico-Aesthetic Repairs

Towards an Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm: Animal Politics, Metamodelization, and the Pragmatics of Mutual Inclusion

Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion

In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high cognitive engagement), and a strong feeling of ...

Reconstructing Repairs of Census Data Forms as Database Repairs

In the context of consistent query answering (CQA) from inconsistent databases, the notion of repair is fundamental. A repair is a new database instance that minimally differs from the original, inconsistent database, but does satisfy the integrity constraints. Minimality usually refers to a minimal set of tuples on which the two instances differ. In this paper we reexamine the process of corre...

Salvage hypospadias repairs

AIM Review of our experience and to develop an algorithm for salvage procedures in the management of hypospadias cripples and treatment of urethral strictures following hypospadias repair. METHODS This is a retrospective review of hypospadias surgeries over a 41-month period. Out of a total 168 surgeries, 20 were salvage/re-operative repairs. In three children a Duplay repair was feasible, wh...

Tagging Speech Repairs

This paper describes a method of detecting speechrepairs that uses a part-of-speech tagger. The tagger is given knowledge about category transitions for speechrepairs, and so is able to mark a transition either as a likely repair or as fluent speech. Other contextual clues, such as editing terms, word fragments, and word matchings, are also factored in by modifying the transition probabilities.