Linearly organized structures in language are supposed to be easy, while hierarchical information is difficult to process. Traditional accounts attribute the difficulty of processing hierarchical sentences (the dog the man walks, barks) to the long positional distances between dependencies (Gibson, 1998). Alternately, linear structures (the man walks the dog that barks) are easier to process. I...

This article investigates Foucault’s account of desiring man by drawing upon History Sexuality vol. 4, Confessions the Flesh. In order to do so, focuses on diagnosis Christian elaboration “the analytic subject concupiscence” that closes As shows, inspires man. However, proves be debatable as it relies a problematic interplay between Cassian’s and Saint Augustine’s concupiscence. The exposes pro...

Sign language recognition has spawned more and more interest in human–computer interaction society. The major challenge that SLR recognition faces now is developing methods that will scale well with increasing vocabulary size with a limited set of training data for the signer independent application. The automatic SLR based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) is very sensitive to gesture's shape inf...