There is a type of prepositional phrase which not only specifies a spatial relationship between the located object (LO) and reference object (RO), but also forces entailments drawing on knowledge about such things as the canonical function of an entity or the stereotypical interactions which it has with other entities. Often, this restricts the range of possible meanings of the PP and hence the...

Strategic voting is a familiar phenomenon in plurality rule elections. Existing formal theories (Palfrey 1989, Cox 1994) predict the complete coordination of strategic voting, and hence strictly Duvergerian bipartism as a stable equilibrium outcome. I have argued elsewhere (Myatt 2002) that these theories are flawed, since they assume that voters have perfect common knowledge of the constituenc...

BACKGROUND To enhance the non-technical skills (NTS) assessment literature by developing a reliable and valid peer and self-assessment tool for NTS in a simulated ward setting to include emotional reactions: the Temporal Rating of Emergency Non-Technical skills (TRENT) Index. The paper aims to document (1) the psychometric properties of the TRENT index (e.g., reliability, idiosyncrasy biases) a...

This study is a linguistic study on idiosyncrasy using speaker classification technique as an analytical tool. The goals of this study are to find out 1) to what extent Japanese filler words (e.g. um, you know in English) carry individual idiosyncratic information; 2) if there are any differences in the degree/nature of idiosyncrasy between the sexes; and 3) what contributes to the identified g...

We illustrate the effectiveness of medium-sized carefully tagged bilingual core corpus, that is, “semantic typology patterns” in our term together with some examples to give concrete evidence of its usefulness. The most important characteristic of these semantic typology patterns is the bridging mechanism between two languages which is based on sequences syntactic codes and semantic codes. This...

Multi-word expressions constitute a significant portion of the lexicon of every natural language, and handling them correctly is mandatory for various NLP applications. Yet such entities are notoriously hard to define, and are consequently missing from standard lexicons and dictionaries. Multi-word expressions exhibit idiosyncratic behavior on various levels: orthographic, morphological, syntac...

This article explores the specific role of heterotopia in a literary context as place located in-between reality and fiction, specifically light autofictional play at work Charyn’s writing. As both spatial landmark imaginary background reinvented world, Bronx intersects fact creation. subjective cartography brings Charyn to reposition different possible first persons along complex spectrum. Lik...

“Drug idiosyncrasy” refers to untoward reactions to drugs that occur in a small fraction of patients and have no obvious relationship to dose or duration of therapy. The liver is a frequent target for toxicity. Much of the conventional thinking about mechanisms of drug idiosyncrasy has centered on hypotheses that the reactions have a metabolic basis involving drug metabolism polymorphisms or th...