Even before the Arab Spring, the resource-rich, rentier states of the Arabian Gulf had been described as some of the most stable regimes in the world. Their apparent robustness over the last few years has only reinforced this view, and led many to conclude that these regimes have eliminated any real threat to their rule. In the following paper, I challenge this conventional wisdom and explore t...

In this paper we present a method of detecting zero pronouns in Japanese clauses and identifying their antecedents using aligned sentence pairs from a Japanese-English bilingual corpus and open resource tools. We use syntactic and semantic structures and the alignment of words and phrases in the sentence pairs to automatically detect zero pronouns and determine their antecedents using English t...

background: motor vehicle traffic injuries are indeed one of the most important worldwide health problems. opioids can induce a depressant effect on the central nervous system which may increase the risk of traffic accidents. this cross-sectional case-control study was conducted in marvdasht, iran to investigate the presence of drugs in hospitalized non-fatally injured drivers of motor vehicles...

This paper describes an approach to identifying the syntactic role of an antecedent in a Korean relative clause, which is essential to structural disambiguation and semantic analysis. In a learning phase, linguistic knowledge such as conceptual co-occurrence patterns and syntactic role distribution of antecedents is extracted from a large-scale corpus. Then, in an application phase, the extract...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the relationship between variations in medical spending and health outcomes of the elderly. DATA SOURCES 1992-2002 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surveys. STUDY DESIGN We used instrumental variable (IV) estimation to identify the relationships between alternative measures of elderly Medicare beneficiaries' medical spending over a 3-year observation period and health stat...