AIM The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of superficial lesions in the oral cavity mucosa in diabetic patients. METHODS The sample was made of 30 patients. To obtain these results we did rigorous clinical and complementary tests. RESULTS Of the 30 patients, 9 (30%) were males and 21 (70%) females. Of the studied patients, 40% were below 60 years of age, and 60% were older than...

Disagreeing with Williamson on vagueness, the author proposes a solution that he calls “three-valued plurivaluationism” to the age-old sorites paradox. In essence, it is a three-valued semantics for a first-order language with identity with the additional suggestion that a vague language has more than one correct interpretation. Unlike the traditional three-valued approach to a vague language, ...

Dialogue Acts have been well studied in linguistics and attracted computational linguistics research for a long time: they constitute the basis of everyday conversations and can be identified with the communicative goal of a given utterance (e.g. asking for information, stating facts, expressing opinions, agreeing or disagreeing). Even if not constituting any deep understanding of the dialogue,...

Empirically supported treatments (ESTs) do not cure every patient, and the randomized trial is not a flawless methodology. Upon these often-noted and widely accepted points, D. Westen, C. M. Novotny, and H. Thompson-Brenner (2004a; see record 2004-15935-005) built a critique of ESTs and EST research. However, important work developing effective, clinically relevant treatments for serious proble...

This paper takes the concept of the ‘Gameplay Gestalt’ as advanced by Craig Lindley[7] as a basis for a fresh look at how games are read and designed. Disagreeing with Lindley’s assertion of gameplay over narrative, it puts forward a model of the game as a construct of authored gestalt interplay, and concentrates on the links between the physical process of playing the game and the interpretati...

Currently in the course we are showing that we can approximate continuous functions on compact sets with piecewise constant functions; in other words, with boxes. We will finish this today. Remaining in the representation section we still have: polynomial fit of continuous functions, functions we can fit succinctly, and GANs. Remark 1.1 (Homework comment.). A brief comment about problem 2(c); i...

We examine the relationship between hot spots (annotated in terms of involvement) and dialogue acts (DAs, annotated in an independent effort) in roughly 32 hours of speech data from naturallyoccurring meetings. Results reveal that four independentlymotivated involvement categories (non-involved, disagreeing, amused, and other) show statistically significant associations with particular DAs. Fur...

Psycholinguistic phenomenon of communication accommodation (Giles et al., 1991) is probably one of the most important contributions in the interdisciplinary field of linguistics, psychology, information, and communication theory. Existing works have applied this theory to various domains like gesture, linguistics, backchannels, and even social media like tweets. In this work, we analyze the psy...

Abslracf-For any prime-power Q, it is shown that there exist q-ary convolutional codes with the equidistance property that every code word is at the same distance from all code words disagreeing in the information digits to be decoded. These codes are called “uniform codes” and it is shown that they can be encoded in a very simple manner. The block codes most similar to uniform codes are the ma...

The goal of the study was to evaluate the quality of the services provided by the library at the Nursing School of the University of São Paulo. A questionnaire evaluating users' satisfaction with the service was employed, covering five quality components: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. The Satisfaction Rate was calculated through the degree of importance in relat...