Complex ankle arthrodesis is defined as an ankle fusion that is at high risk of delayed and nonunion secondary to patient comorbidities and/or local ankle/hindfoot factors. Risk factors that contribute to defining this group of patients can be divided into systemic factors and local factors pertaining to co-existing ankle or hindfoot pathology. Orthopaedic surgeons should be aware of these risk...

In this article we refine the formulation of the problem of prepositional phrase (PP) attachment as a four-way disambiguation problem. We argue that, in interpreting PPs, both knowledge about the site of the attachment (the traditional noun–verb attachment distinction) and the nature of the attachment (the distinction of arguments from adjuncts) are needed. We introduce a method to learn argume...

BACKGROUND As healthcare services become progressively more stretched, there is increasing discussion of ways in which technological adjuncts may be used to deliver more cost-efficient services. Before widespread implementation, however, the use of these adjuncts requires proper scrutiny of their effects on psychological practice. AIMS This research examined the effectiveness of SMS reminders...

PURPOSE We asked whether sentence repetition accuracy could be explained by interactions of participant processing limitations with the structures of the sentences. We also tested a prediction of the procedural deficit hypothesis (Ullman & Pierpont, 2005) that adjuncts are more difficult than arguments for individuals with developmental language impairment (DLI). METHOD Forty-four young adult...

Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT) became a leading paradigm in Statistical Machine Translation after its introduction in 2003. From the start, one has tried to improve PBSMT by using linguistic knowledge, often by incorporating syntactic information into the model. This thesis proposes a simple approach to improve PBSMT using a general linguistic notion, that of adjuncts, or ...

This article reviews current evidence for the efficacy of adding novel analgesic adjuncts to brachial plexus block, the goal of which is to prolong analgesic effect without the disadvantage of systemic side effects or prolonged motor block. It may also allow for a reduction in the total dose of local anesthetic used. Novel adjuncts studied to date include opioids, clonidine, neostigmine, and tr...

This Technical Bulletin reviews the indications for gonadotropin treatment in anovulatory women; outlines the recommended pretreatment evaluation, treatment regimens, and monitoring; describes the alternatives and adjuncts to treatment with gonadotropins; and summarizes the complications of gonadotropin treatment.

Actions of certain anticonvulsants upon voltage-gated sodium channels may not only explain why they are effective mood stabilizers but may also explain why they could be useful adjuncts to antipsychotics for resistant psychosis.

2 Segmentation 3 2.1 Base Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Sentence Internal Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2.1 Subordinate Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2.2 Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2.3 Adjuncts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.4 Appositives . . . ....

We discuss the problems created by the distinction between oblique arguments and adjuncts in general and in the XLE-based ParGram English grammar implementation. We argue that it is better to do away with the distinction for semantically marked obliques.