maqamat-e hamidi (by hamid al-din abu-bakr balkhi, died in 1164) is the first persian maqam. although it has adopted the manner of maqamat-e badiʾ al-zaman hamedani and maqamat-e hariri it has gotten a special position in the history of maqamas. one of the important properties of maqama is its musical and harmonic tone. this article tries to analyze pun, as one of the basic literary industries ...

The American Board of Urology (ABU) has a very distinct mission that is often misunderstood by urologists in the community. In addition, there is an enormous number of acronyms associated with the ABU. In this paper, I will attempt to explain the workings of the ABU and to define and explain the acronyms. The mission of the ABU is to act for the benefit of the public to insure a high quality, s...

Secretion and membrane fusion are fundamental cellular processes regulating endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–Golgi transport, plasma membrane recycling, cell division, sexual reproduction, acid secretion, and the release of enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters, to name just a few. It is therefore no surprise that defects in secretion and membrane fusion give rise to diseases such as diabetes, Alz...

Previous work in referring expression generation has explored general purpose techniques for attribute selection and surface realization. However, most of this work did not take into account: a) stylistic differences between speakers; or b) trainable surface realization approaches that combine semantic and word order information. In this paper we describe and evaluate several end-to-end referri...