Honorific Statues for Gaius and Lucius Caesar

Honorific marking: Interpreted and Interpretable

Japanese, Korean, and Thai provide yet more extensive and articulated honorification paradigms, with a range of special formal, familiar, and derogatory pronominal forms, as well as verb forms and others. This extra dimension in the pronominal system separates these languages from, e.g., English and Arabic, where the pronominal paradigms make no such distinction. But it is evident that, in natu...

Situated Politeness: Manipulating Honorific and Non-honorific Expressions in Japanese Conversations

CAESAR models for developmental toxicity

BACKGROUND The new REACH legislation requires assessment of a large number of chemicals in the European market for several endpoints. Developmental toxicity is one of the most difficult endpoints to assess, on account of the complexity, length and costs of experiments. Following the encouragement of QSAR (in silico) methods provided in the REACH itself, the CAESAR project has developed several ...

The medical statues of Paris.

Many statues of doctors have been erected in Paris. Sadly, many bronze monuments were deliberately destroyed during the Second World War, including memorials to Claude Bernard, Broca, Charcot, Pean, Raspail and Ricord, and to Berlioz who was a medical student in Paris. Only those of Bernard and Berlioz were replaced after the war. Bronzes of Bichat, Clemenceau, Pinel and the Barons Larrey (Domi...

Identifying Vandalized Regions in Facial Images of Statues for Inpainting

Historical monuments are considered as one of the key aspects for modern communities. Unfortunately, due to a variety of factors the monuments get damaged. One may think of digitally undoing the damage to the monuments by inpainting, a process to fill-in missing regions in an image. A majority of inpainting techniques reported in the literature require manual selection of the regions to be inpa...