As an academic consultant advising industry, two contrasting experiences are frequent. One is that the industry practitioners have strong domain knowledge that the consultant lacks. The other is that the industry practitioners often suffer from paradigm paralysis, using models of thinking that are either fundamentally inappropriate, or, perhaps more commonly, have become inappropriate through t...

Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome that occurs in some primary psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, mood disorders), or due to general medical conditions (e.g., neurological disorders, drug poisoning, metabolic disorders) (1). Although it is uncommon, but if it goes unrecognized in medical and surgical units (2), it can increase morbidity and mortality. Moreover, making a connectio...

Eyelid injuries are a common emergency room challenge in patients presenting with history of road traffic accidents. Overzealous debridement can result in tissue loss in which primary repair becomes impossible along with loss of critical landmarks especially in tissue as fragile as the eyelids. We present a 45-year-old male with avulsion injury of the right lower eyelid compounded by debridemen...

1http://www.di.unito.it/∼tutreeb/ Italian Treebank2 (VIT), and the ISST3. None of them is comparable in size with the English Penn Treebank. This limits the possibility to have reliable induced grammars for Italian. Initial studies have shown that probabilistic grammars induced on a small corpus have not impressive performances [5]. Building larger corpora is then needed. We have been working o...