A Hindu Brahmin, pet. GO, by profession a cook, lias been suffering from Inguinal hernia for the last 10 or 12 years. All along the hernia was reducible, and the man did not require any surgical interference whatever, save and except he was advised to use the truss constantly. But he did not act up to it strictly, as it caused some inconvenience. On the afternoon of the 28th ultimo the man went...

781 STHMA is among the serious manifestations of allergic disease for which patients require immediate relief. Because of its chronicity and tendency to recur there has been a continuous search for more effective symptomatic treatment. A large number of drugs have been developed which are purported to relieve the symptoms of asthma. They are used and often abused to an extent which may actually...

The idea of this special volume was triggered by an astonishment that came to me more than a year ago and that took of the key question behind the IJANTTI call for papers, announced in the spring of 2014: why there are so few analyses of emerging and yet unestablished firmly technolo-gies? I was surprised that we, the community of actor-network theory (ANT) researchers, are about to miss two of...

T he “kissing number problem” asks for the maximal number of blue spheres that can touch a red sphere of the same size in n-dimensional space. The answers in dimensions one, two, and three are classical, but the answers in dimensions eight and twenty-four were a big surprise in 1979, based on an extremely elegant method initiated by Philippe Delsarte in the early seventies which concerns inequa...

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis for animal personality proposes that variation among individuals in life-history strategies is associated with consistent differences in behavior. We tested predictions of this hypothesis in the superb fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus, by investigating long-term individual differences in risk-related behaviors (latency to enter a novel artificial environme...

Primates emit different kinds of vocalizations in different contexts (Struhsaker, 1967; Snowdon and Pola, 1978; Seyfarth et al., 1980; Robinson, 1982; Boinski et al., 1999; Oliveira and Ades, 1998; Maccowan et al., 2001; Di Bitetti, 2001, 2003). For example, long calls can serve as localization cues for conspecifics and are often produced in the context of territorial encounters, mate attractio...

Firstly, the wavelet analysis was used as the filter tool to separate the different scale roughness from the reflector surface testing data, and a mathematical model of the multi-scale roughness was presented to investigate its impact on the radiation characteristic of the reflector antenna. Based on the roughness model, a formulation of density of the far-field was deduced and the definable mo...

The Yanqi basin is the main irrigated and active agroecosystem in semi-arid Xinjiang, northwestern China, which further seeks responses to profound local water-related drawbacks relation unceasing landscape desiccation scant precipitation. Yet, it comes as an astonishment that a few reported near-surface items water vapor fluxes so far required for resources decision support, particularly scarc...

This paper discusses the overall process of learning taxonomy from Malay texts using unsupervised conceptual clustering approach and investigates the existing Malay NLP tools as potential pre-processing tools for the proposed ontology learning approach. The tools are a maximum-entropy parser based on open NLP package, a word sense tagger and a parser based on pola grammar. A case study approach...