Patterns and Interpretation

Nontraditional interpretation of lung patterns.

The fundamental components of traditional and nontraditional interpretation of lung patterns are very similar. Differences mainly relate to what imaging signs are emphasized as important and choice of terminology. In the nontraditional approach, in lungs with abnormal opacity, the two key signs for prioritizing the differential diagnoses are the degree of lung expansion and the macroscopic dist...

Geometrical Interpretation and Simulation of HOLZ Patterns

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Allegory: Structure, Interpretation and Polysemy

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

Computer Interpretation of English Text and Picture Patterns

This paper considers a class of information sources consisting of text and pictures. The text i s English language text appearing in scientific and technical documents. The picture sources are the largely schematic pictures that occur in the same class of documents. However, the discussion is broadened slightly to include other picture sources. For a tiny fragment of English, the paper shows ho...