“Shooting [or ‘guessing’] characters” (shèzì 射字) was a game, and later communication method, based on phonological analysis of Chinese syllables. Over time, it became used in variety ways, including as teaching tool, cipher, writing aid for the less educated. The actual proposed applications one game show that phonology did not just exist books, but encompassed distinct non-written pract...

This study was carried out to determine the effects of putrescine(Put) and humic acid (HA) foliar applications on growth, yield and chemical composition of Egyptian cotton (Gossypium barbadense L. cv. Giza 90)plants grown under saline soil condition. A soil mixture of, clay: sand (1:1), was used as a plant growing media. Three different doses of putrescine (0, 1 and 2 ppm) and humic acid (0, 1 ...

The TREC-6 conference was the fourth year in which document retrieval in a language other than English was carried out. In TREC-3, 4 groups participated in an ad hoc retrieval task on a collection of 208 Mbytes of Mexican newspaper text in the Spanish language. In TREC-4 there were 10 groups who participated, once again in an ad hoc document retrieval task on the same Mexican newspaper texts bu...