Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for every spoken language system. We present a framework to detect and correct speech repairs where all relevant levels of information, i.e., acoustics, lexic, syntax and semantics could be integrated. The basic idea is to reduce the search space for repairs as soon as possib...

We present a declarative framework for updating views over indefinite databases, that is, databases with null values. The framework follows the standard database approach, which allows for a unique null constant. As the main contributions of the paper, we introduce the concept of an indefinite deductive database as a formal representation of a view over an indefinite database, propose a semanti...

PURPOSE To determine the trends in SLAP repairs over time, including patient age, and percentage of SLAP repairs versus other common shoulder arthroscopic procedures. METHODS The records of 4 sports or shoulder/elbow fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeons were used to identify the total number of common shoulder arthroscopic cases performed between 2004 and 2014 using current procedural term...

When a group of authors collaboratively edits interrelated documents, consistency problems occur almost immediately. Current document management systems (DMSs) provide useful mechanisms such as document locking and version control, but often lack consistency management facilities. At best, consistency is “defined” via informal guidelines, which do not support automatic consistency checks. In th...

Consistency of knowledge repositories is of prime importance in organization management. Integrity constraints are a well-known vehicle for specifying data consistency requirements in knowledge bases; in particular, active integrity constraints go one step further, allowing the specification of preferred ways to overcome inconsistent situations in the context of database management. This paper ...

More than 1 million inguinal hernia repairs are performed in Europe and the US annually. Although antibiotic prophylaxis is not required in clean, elective procedures, the routine use of implants (90% of inguinal hernia repairs are performed with mesh) makes the topic controversial. The European Hernia Society does not recommend routine antibiotic prophylaxis for elective inguinal hernia repair...

PURPOSE To determine the clinical healing rate of repairs of meniscus tears that extend into the central one-third region and the factors that affect the outcome. METHODS A systematic search of PubMed was conducted to determine the outcome of meniscus repairs in the red-white (R/W) zone. Inclusion criteria were as follows: English language, clinical trials published from 1996 to 2013, R/W tea...

Results presented in this paper strongly support the notion that similarities as well as differences in language systems can be empirically investigated by looking into the linguistic patterns of speech repairs in real speech data. A total of 500 Gemmn and 325 Mandarin Chinese overt immediate speech repairs were analysed with regard to their internal phrasal structures, with particular focus on...

The subject of the study is major repairs an apartment building. authors analyse concepts “capital building” and “energy efficient repair”, explore normative methodical base. Based on presented statistical data state buildings, paper proposes original system indicators for evaluating energy-efficient capital repairs. assessment population by degree satisfaction with housing conditions character...