Abstract Common arguments for realism about phenomenal consciousness contend that this is a folk concept, with proponents expecting it to be lexicalised in ordinary language. In English, the word ‘experience’ typically regarded as best candidate. This predicts will used refer mental states and episodes, not only philosophical but also discourse. We conduct corpus study order assess claim unders...

A system is described which learns to compose sequences of operators into episodes for problem solving. The system incrementally learns when and why operators are applied. Episodes are segmented so that they are generalizable and reusable. The idea of *augmenting the instance language with higher level concepts is introduced. The technique of perturbation is described for discovering the essent...

INTRODUCTION Non-Pseudomonas gram-negative bacteria are responsible for an increasing proportion of cases of peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related peritonitis. The role of Citrobacter species in the etiology of PD-related peritonitis is often underestimated. In the present study, we aimed to describe the clinical features, laboratory findings, and short- and long-term outcomes in PD-related peritoni...

OBJECTIVE Previous work suggested that first-trimester exposure to tricyclic antidepressants or fluoxetine does not affect adversely child IQ and language development. However, many women need antidepressants throughout pregnancy to avoid morbidity and suicide attempts. Little is known about the fetal safety of tricyclic antidepressants and fluoxetine when taken throughout pregnancy. The goal o...

To date, very limited research interest has been given to the strategies English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers or lecturers deploy provide corrective feedback (CF) on language use their students during class interaction. In other words, when EMI incidentally focus students’ problematic use, how do they correct it – providing explicit correction using recast elicitation? This article reports...

This paper is concerned with the role of language in advanced mathematical thinking. It is argued that some behaviors may arise from the application to mathematical language of some conventions of ordinary language. Grice’s Cooperative Principle (CP) is introduced in order to explain some episodes that are not easily accounted for in terms of semantics only. Some examples of (undue) application...

Episode creation, the task of classifying medical events and related clinical data to a high-level concept, such as a disease, illness or care, has been primarily an interest of healthcare payers for purposes of cost outcomes analysis. Traditional challenges in episode creation have included: inconsistencies in defining episodes; lack of sufficient information to infer episodes; and differences...