The paper proposes a novel solution to the problem of exceptional scope (ES) of (in)definites, e.g. the widest and intermediate scope readings of the sentence Every student of mine read every poem that a famous Romanian poet wrote before World War II. We propose that ES readings are available when the sentence is interpreted as anaphoric to quantificational domains and quantificational dependen...

This paper suggests a novel form of audiovisual performancelive writingthat transforms creative writing into a realtime performing art. The process of typing a poem on the fly is captured and augmented to create an audiovisual performance that establishes natural links among the components of typing gestures, the poem being written on the fly, and audiovisual artifacts. Live writing draws upon ...

Achalasia is a primary motility disorder with an annual incidence of 0.11 cases/ 100000 children [1]. In the field of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), the peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) [2–3] is the only treatment to be performed routinely in humans. We report the case of a 3-year old female patient with Down syndrome who presented with severe growth retardation and w...

yemeni poet abdul-aziz maqaleh is regarded among the poets who have been influenced by the myths of different nations. meanwhile this poet has used clearly and outstandingly from the greek mythology. although maqaleh has used in the beginning of his poem – like other poets- from the indexical aspect of myths, but he soon became successful to cover his own contemporary experience on the myths. p...

Nanophotonics, Nanoelectronics and Nanosensor (N3) is part of International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meetings (POEM), launched by Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO). POEM is a large-scale multi-disciplinary international conference in the field of photonics and optoelectronics. It aims to focus on the key techniques of scientific frontier and industry in the field of opto...

Walahfried Strabo: Hortulus, translated by Raef Payne, commentary by Wilfrid Blunt, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Hunt Botanical Library, 1966, pp. xi, 91, illus, $12.00. This publication is number 2 of the Hunt Facsimile Series, edited by George H.M. Lawrence, Director of the Hunt Botanical Library. It is a happy choice, for this poem, written by a monk of Reichenau in the ninth century, has g...

IN late medieval England, the number of persons literate in the vernacular was growing rapidly.' The same interest in self-improvement which led these people to learn to read also led them to seek out, or to sponsor the production of, works that would make available to them knowledge from both antique and earlier medieval sources knowledge to which as yet, for the most part, only those who coul...

Herrick’s “The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home: To the Right Honourable, Mildmay, Earle of Westmorland” was composed at a time when unpropertied rural laborers it depicts were facing unprecedented economic hardship—years which one historian has described as “probably most terrible … through country ever passed.” It is often noted that final lines poem give an unusually frank glimpse their disempower...

Background and study aims Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is an excellent endoscopic treatment for achalasia. Clinical and manometric parameters are used for evaluation and follow-up. However, clinical success does not guarantee high quality of life (QoL) scores, generating doubts about their direct relationship. We aimed to evaluate QoL scores before and after POEM at medium and long term, t...