Optimality Theory (henceforth OT) (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) is based upon lexicographic optimization. It differs in this respect from Harmonic Grammar (henceforth HG) (Legendre et al. 1990a, Legendre et al. 1990b), which is based upon linear numeric optimization. Differences between the two have been discussed in several places, including (Legendre et al. 2006, Pater et al. 2007a, Prince...

Mark D. Gorrell, Xin M. Wang, Miriam T. Levy, Eleanor Kable, George Marinos , Guy Cox and Geoffrey W. McCaughan 1. A. W. Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology and the University of Sydney, NSW Australia. 2. Electron Microscope Unit, University of Sydney. 3. Gastroenterology Department, Prince of Wales Hosp...

Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Philips Healthcare, Andover, MA; Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Faculty of Medicine, Nat...

We look at the Big Match game, a variation of the repeated Matching Pennies game where if the first player plays tails the game ends with the first player receiving the last round's payoff. We study this game when the second player js implemented as a finite automaton. We show several results including: • If the first player knows the number of states of the second player's automaton then he ca...

The present paper addresses the process and the results of the interpretation of the integral text of “Le Petit Prince” (Little Prince), the famous novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French into UNL. The original text comprised 1,684 interpretation units (15,513 words), which were sorted according to their similarity, from the shortest to the longest ones, and which were then projected int...

Stefanie Leung, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney Rachel Chapman, Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital Raimondo Bruno, Department of Psychology, University of Tasmania Michael Lenne, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University Paul Haber, Drug Health Services, South Local Health District Nicholas Lintzeris, Drug and Alcohol Services, South Eastern Sydney Local Health...

EditoriaL 664 Virulence Volume 4 issue 8 It has been known in the community studying the pathogenesis of Streptococcus pyogenes that spontaneous mutation occurs during passages in laboratory media or in animals, so some of the progeny's virulence can be changed, mainly due to the change of the expression of virulence factors. Like other pathogens, S. pyogenes, a strict human pathogen, produces ...