Leunis' Synopsis Der Thierkunde

Synopsis Prasanna

I. Synopsis

This book is Mukherjee’s PhD thesis. The study is based on a 55,000 word corpus which has been put together from parts of the London-Lund Corpus (LLC) and parts of a corpus compiled by Jürgen Esser (JEC). The author has selected monologues and dialogues from LLC; JEC consists of monologues only. This review is divided into two parts. In the first part, I will briefly summarize the seven differe...

Thesis Synopsis

My research concerns the theoretical foundations of topological data analysis (TDA). Work done in the last several years on theory and applications of TDA has demonstrated that TDA offers a principled, flexible, and computationally viable framework for studying coarse-scale global geometric features of data [17, 26, 13, 7, 11, 10, 8, 24]. Moreover, the tools of TDA have proven to be very well s...

Research Synopsis

My research lies in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a highly interdisciplinary field of study comprising of concepts and ideas from Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic Theory and Statistics. Naturally occurring instances of human language, be it text or speech, are growing at an exponential rate given the popularity of the Web and social media. In addition, people are increasingl...

Case synopsis

A 67-year-old man with a three-year history of non-scarring alopecia that progressed to alopecia totalis despite intralesional glucocorticoid injections is presented. He developed 20-nail dystrophy that was recalcitrant to antifungal and anti-inflammatory treatments. Biopsy of the nail matrix showed histopathologic features of lichen planus. Alopecia totalis and isolated lichen planus of the na...