Methodology and Interpretive Procedures’ acknowledges the vital importance of methodology as I construct a discourse that examines discourses. Through Ball (1994) this paper considers methodological terms such as critical, analyst, risk , imagination , reflexive and reflective. Accepting that the naming of any field is contestable therefore risky, the educational field of focus is ‘the arts’. T...

The Potsdam Commentary Corpus is a collection of 175 German newspaper commentaries annotated on a variety of different layers. This paper introduces a new layer that covers the linguistic notion of information-structural topic (not to be confused with ‘topic’ as applied to documents in information retrieval). To our knowledge, this is the first larger topic-annotated resource for German (and on...

Professor Ulrich Dilthey’s passion for the science and technology of joining processes is amply reflected in the enormous archive of published work which will forever serve the community. It is a pleasure therefore to be able to present this small story as a tribute to someone who has been a scholar, a gentleman and a leader in this most difficult of subjects. The matter of our everyday world i...

The incidence of cryptorchidism in infants is 3.3-5.8%, incidence in adults is not known. Cryptorchidism in adults is not uncommon in India for various reasons. Orchiectomy is the best option as malignant transformation of the undescended testis is a very real risk. Our patient was 52 years old with an empty left hemiscrotum and a large lower abdominal swelling. Laparoscopy-assisted resection w...

Paraphrases are alternative syntactic forms in the same language expressing the same semantic content. Speakers of all languages are inherently familiar with paraphrases at different levels of granularity (lexical, phrasal, and sentential). For quite some time, the concept of paraphrasing is getting a growing attention by the research community and its potential use in several natural language ...

Discourse connectives enable discourse coherence relations to be studies empirically. This paper presents two experiments on the semantic similarity of discourse connectives. Subjects are found to agree significantly on the similarity of pairs of connectives, and their similarity judgements are related to the ability of the connectives to be used to paraphrase each other. Subjects’ similarity j...

Speech recognition systems for languages with a rich in ectional morphology (like German) su er from the limitations of a word{based full{form lexicon. Although the morphological and acoustical knowledge about words is coded implicitly within the lexicon entries (which are usually closely related to the orthography of the language at hand) this knowledge is usually not explicitly available for ...

We study processing and authentication of long-running queries on outsourced data streams. In this scenario, a data owner (DO) constantly transmits its data to a service provider (SP), together with additional authentication information. Clients register continuous range queries to the SP. Whenever the data change, the SP must update the results of all affected queries and inform the clients ac...

The development of minimally invasive surgery has probably been the biggest revolution in surgical practice in last two decades, which has gone through a period of rapid development during last 10 years. These minimal access techniques have changed the approach to many surgical procedures; one of such changing procedure is laparoscopically assisted anorectoplasty (LAARP) in children which is re...

When encountering people who have a different cultural background from our own, many of us feel uncomfortable because gestures and facial expressions may not be familiar to us. Thus, to enhance the believability of conversational agents, culture-specific nonverbal behaviors should be implemented into the agents. In our previous study [1], with the goal of building a user interface that incorpor...