In this paper we describe a natural language generation system which produces complex sentences from a biology knowledge base. The NLG system allows domain experts to discover errors in the knowledge base and generates certain parts of answers in response to users’ questions in an e-textbook application. The system allows domain experts to customise its lexical resources and to set parameters w...

Digital textbooks are becoming increasingly popular in schools throughout the world. Simultaneous mandates to adopt digital textbooks in the country of South Korea and the U.S. state of Florida provide an opportunity to study how culture and context might impact this implementation from the perspective of the school librarian who serves multiple roles when new technology is introduced. In this ...

"cortical mosaic" theory of the localization of movements by the unit representation of individual muscles, and stresses the importance, alike to physiologists and clinicians, of a wvider appreciation of the importance of the hypothesis of multiple and overlapping representations of movements rather than muscles. In this admirable essay the author shows himself to share with Hughlings Jackson, ...

THE latest edition of this very valuable book contains much up-to-date information. But although it has been kept rigidly to size it is still a heavy book and I doubt whether many students read it from cover to cover before they qualify. By the time they have qualified a lot of the details of treatment will be out of date (indeed in some instances this is already true). This raises the problem ...

THIS is a collection of five addresses previously delivered by Sir Thomas Lewis, with a preface. The convincing logic of his views and the precision with which they are expressed make one feel that the book should be in the hands of every teaching physician and every professor of physiology. It speaks volumes for the sane discriminating insight of the author that he can combine an address writt...

that ' of all factors contributing to the remarkable advances which have been made in surgery during the past fifty years, none has been of greater importance than the influence of laboratory experimentation This is a book of convenient size, although it consists of 528 pages, and, as may be expected, it makes in places difficult reading, in spite of a generous display of effective illustration...