Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among American men. Biopsy for prostate cancer is a procedure known as transrectal ultrasound-guided needle biopsy. Because of the low resolution of ultrasound, the urologist cannot usually distinguish between cancerous and healthy tissue. For this reason, most biopsies follow standard protocols based on long-term experience of...

Many countries in Central and Eastern Europe have been undergoing marked economic changes following the collapse of the former “Eastern Bloc” and totalitarian regimes. In the Czech Republic, this transition has had a profound effect on land use management that subsequently results in widespread land cover changes. This study analyzes trends in land use/land cover changes (LULCC) in the context ...

This paper investigates the relationship between two contextual factors which contribute to the characterization of text types: the purpose and the subject matter of discourse, and the thematic structure of texts. This is done through the empirical analysis of a corpus of sixty discourses varying in these two factors together. The results of the analysis yielded statistically significant correl...

In this paper we present the methodology followed in the automatic semantic annotation (argument structure and thematic roles of the verbal predicates) of the CESS-ECECAT/ESP corpus. Building from a verbal lexicon (1,482 entries) with information about the syntactic functions and their projection to arguments and thematic roles, we present a set of simple rules to automatically enrich syntactic...

We examined the role of spatial representations and word order on thematic role assignment in Greek. Previous studies suggest that spatial representations influence thematic role assignment; agent is typically depicted on the left, and patient on the right. Here, we address this issue using a language with flexible word order which allows us to manipulate sentence structure (SVO–OVS) orthogonal...

Lexical-semantic investigations in cognitive neuroscience have focused on conceptual knowledge of concrete objects. By contrast, relational concepts have been largely ignored. We examined thematic role and locative knowledge in 14 left-hemisphere-damage patients. Relational concepts shift cognitive focus away from the object to the relationship between objects, calling into question the relevan...

Recent ERP findings challenge the widespread assumption that syntactic and semantic processes are tightly coupled. Syntactically well-formed sentences that are semantically anomalous due to thematic mismatches elicit a P600, the component standardly associated with syntactic anomaly. This 'thematic P600' effect has been attributed to detection of semantically plausible thematic relations that c...

Overstory vegetation maps of species and canopy cover were developed from Landsat 7 Thematic Enhanced Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. Ecosystem Monitoring plot data, collected during the 1997-2001 field seasons, were used as training sites for the image classification. Sixty-two species classes and four canopy cover classes were mapped. The maps will be used to support a Joint Fire Science P...