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An Analytical Study of the Effect of the Current Divergences in the Reading of ow Laamastum al-Nisa` on Qarzawi`s Fiqhi Discourse

The divergence of Qur'anic readings in some verses has led to divisions in the commentators, translators and jurisprudents` understanding and interpretation. Regarding the reasons for unlawfulness of kissing non-mahrams and the commentators and scholars` views and relying the verse " ow Laamastum al-Nisa`", this article studies the differences between the readings of the above verse and its eff...

Critical Readings in Translation Studies, Edited by M. Baker (2010), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-46955-5

Seminar on Attention and Perceptual Organization

This is a summary of a seminar that considered the relations between attention and perceptual organizations. This document contains the syllabus, weekly question sets, and a summary of the discussion for each week. At the end there is also a a set of brief questions and answers that summarize the seminar in a page. Readings: All readings are available as pdfs on the ICON site for this course. D...

A Comparative Study of Blood Glucose Measurements Using Glucometer Readings and the Standard Method in the Diagnosis of Neonatal Hypoglycemia

Background: Hypoglycemia is one of the most common neonatal disorders, associated with severe complications. There has been a great deal of controversy regarding the definition and screening of hypoglycemia. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine a cut-off value for blood glucose level in glucometer readings. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 238 newborns at risk of ...

Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser

The ENGTWOL morphological analyser is a 55,000 entry Koskenniemi-style morphological description of English that assigns all recognised input word forms with all possible morphological readings as a disjunctive list. Those words not recognised by the ENGTWOL analyser are analysed by a heuristic module; part-ofspeech readings are assigned on the basis of the form of the word (endings etc.). The ...

The Influence of Plural NPs on Aktionsart in DRT The Influence of Plural NPs on Aktionsart in DRT

We investigate Aktionsart phenomena connected to sentences with plural NPs and spell out a definition of Aktionsarten that also applies to sentences that describe sums of events. We develop an algorithm that constructs Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) from sentences and that incorporates an Aktionsart calculus that is based on the Aktionsart definition presented. Defining Aktionsarten...