A syllable is defined as a unit of spoken language bigger than a speech sound (phoneme), and is made up of three components: a nucleus, which consists of a single vowel or syllabic consonant, optionally surrounded by one or more consonants. The consonants that precede the nucleus are collectively referred to as the onset, while those that succeed it are called the coda. The nucleus and coda are...

A detailed discussion of the point in polygon problem for arbitrary polygons is given. Two concepts for solving this problem are known in literature: the even–odd rule and the winding number, the former leading to ray-crossing, the latter to angle summation algorithms. First we show by mathematical means that both concepts are very closely related, thereby developing a first version of an algor...

History.?Married?mother of 5 children?last child aged 3 years?all the children are alive and all the labours were normal. For 15 years the patient has had occasional temperature at night. Sometimes she used to have swelling of the right leg which lasted for about 10 or 15 days. For the past 12 years she noticed thickening of her left labium majus, the swelling gradually becoming bigger and bigg...