This paper reports on one aspect of Locutus, a natural language interface to databases (NLIDB) which uses the output of a highprecision broad-coverage grammar to build semantic representations and ultimately SQL queries. Rather than selecting just a subset of the parses provided by the grammar to use in further processing, Locutus uses all of them. If the meaning of a parse does not conform to ...

A central tenet of economics is that individuals respond to incentives. For psychologists and sociologists, by contrast, rewards and punishments are often counterproductive, because they undermine “intrinsic motivation”. We reconcile these two views, showing how performance incentives offered by an informed principal (manager, teacher, parent) can adversely impact an agent’s (worker, child) per...

apoptosis or programmed cell death is a gene regulated phenomenon which is important in both physiological and pathological conditions. it is characterized by distinct morphological features including chromatin condensation, cell and nuclear shrinkage, membrane blebbing and oligonucleosomal dna fragmentation. although, two major apoptotic pathways including 1) the death receptor (extrinsic) and...

We find a one-to-one correspondence between full extrinsic symmetric spaces in (possibly degenerate) inner product spaces and certain algebraic objects called (weak) extrinsic symmetric triples. In particular, this yields a description of arbitrary extrinsic symmetric spaces in pseudo-Euclidean spaces by corresponding infinitesimal objects. MSC 2000: 53C50, 53C35, 53C40

BACKGROUND While historical declines in human mortality are clearly shaped by lifestyle and environmental improvements, modeling patterns is difficult because intrinsic and extrinsic processes shape mortality through complex stochastic interactions. OBJECTIVE To develop a stochastic model describing intrinsic and extrinsic mortality rates and quantify historical mortality trends in terms of par...

In recent years, a number of modernist chefs have started to pay more attention the potential role food or drink-extrinsic scents in enhancing their guest’s multisensory gastronomic experiences. This narrative review highlights wide range uses for such ambient, and/or food-extrinsic, aromas. Oftentimes, setting, ambient been introduced by order help set context particular dish, assist with stor...