Differential electrophysiological effects for regular and irregular linguistic forms have been used to support the theory that grammatical rules are encoded using a dedicated cognitive mechanism. The alternative hypothesis is that language systematicities are encoded probabilistically in a way that does not categorically distinguish rule-like and irregular forms. In the present study, this matt...

The assessment of the powers of body measurements in the estimation of weights and the accuracies of body weights in the estimation of size among livestock species has been widely reported. Body weight is the commonly reported measure of size (Fitzhugh & Bradford, 1983). The reliability of single measurements such as wither height, body length, heart girth, rump height and width e.t.c. in the e...

We use the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the relation between galaxy rest frame u − r colour, morphology, as described by the concentration and Sérsic indices, and environmental density, for a sample of 79,553 galaxies at z ∼ < 0.1. We split the samples according to density and luminosity and recover the expected bimodal distribution in the colour-morphology...

Bioengineered organs raised in vitro are candidate substitutes for natural organs in biological, pharmacological and clinical applications. We have studied cell kinetics in a human skin equivalent (HSE) using a combined immunohistochemical and flow cytometric approach. Morphological analysis has shown that, relative to unstimulated natural skin, cell proliferation mainly occurs in the basal lay...

Italian V+N compounds, such as portalettere ‘mailman’, apriscatole ‘can opener’ and spartineve ‘snow plough’ are exocentric and denote an Agent or an Instrument. Their morphological structure is intensively discussed and has raised many controversies. In this paper, we focus on the inflectional features Number, Gender and the Thematic Role the compound refers to (Agent or Instrument). We argue ...

While high-resolution remote sensing images have increased application possibilities for urban studies, the large number of shadow areas has created challenges to processing and extracting information from these images. Furthermore, shadows can reduce or omit information from the surface as well as degrading the visual quality of images. The pixels of shadows tend to have lower radiance respons...

This study aimed to examine whether morphological changes during the early stage of treatment or indices of proliferation, apoptosis, or hormone receptors are reliable predictors of the hormonal response to uterus-preserving high-dose progestin therapy in patients with endometrial adenocarcinoma. Seven patients (5 good responders and 2 poor responders) with presumptive stage IA endometrial aden...

AIM The overall aim of this pilot study was to establish the role of dental practitioners in identifying patients at risk of osteoporosis from panoramic radiographs. METHODS The pilot study evaluated 32 randomly selected postmenopausal women with no known secondary cause of bone loss. A panoramic radiograph of each patient was taken and qualitative and quantitative radiomorphometric indices w...

A bioassay method detecting deformations of mycelia germinated from conidia of Pyricularia oryzae P-2b, has been modified to give quantitative estimations. The method was first developed using antimitotic agents which showed characteristic curling effect. Morphological deformations include curling, swelling, hyper-divergency, beads shape and so on, and inhibition of the germination was also obs...

In this paper a 3D morphological composition of transformations for brain extraction on brain Magnetic Resonance Images T1 (MRI T1) is presented. The proposal makes use of two morphological connected transformations, the lower leveling and a family of the viscous alternating sequential filters (VASFs). The properties of these operators -which consist in the control of the reconstruction process...