The domain of lexical combinatorics has received much interest over the last years, in syntax, lexical semantics and lexicology, but also in lexicography, terminology, terminography and in Natural Language Processing (NLP). If the field of combinatorics can maybe trivially be defined by the fact that it deals with syntagmatic combination phenomena involving two or more lexemes, it is much harde...

Fractures of the tibial plateau are relatively rare, representing around 1.2% of all fractures. The tibia, due to its subcutaneous location and poor muscle coverage, is exposed and suffers large numbers of traumas, not only fractures, but also crush injuries and severe bruising, among others, which at any given moment, could lead compartment syndrome in the patient. The case is reported of a 58...

In this chapter, we elaborate on our definition of reading comprehension by giving examples of variations in the three reading comprehension elements— reader, text, and activity—and variations in the context in which they occur. Of course, none of these elements operates independently of the others in any authentic act of comprehension. However, we consider each in turn because each has an inte...

Cadiag-2-where "Cadiag" stands for "computer-assisted diagnosis"- is an expert system based on fuzzy logic assisting in the differential diagnosis in internal medicine. With its aid, it is possible to derive from possibly vague information about a patient's symptoms, signs, laboratory test results, and clinical findings conjectures about present diseases. In this paper, we provide a mathematica...

The problem of synthesis of Petri nets from transition systems or languages has many applications, ranging from CAD for VLSI to medical applications, among others. The most common algorithms to accomplish this task are based on the theory of regions. However, one of the problems of such algorithms is its space requirements: for real-life or industrial instances, some of the region-based algorit...

In the process of implementing a protocol for the transport of science data, the Open Source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) group has learned a considerable amount about the internal anatomy of what are commonly considered monolithic concepts. In order to communicate among our group, we have adopted a collection of definitions and observations about data and the metadata t...

Chemical vapor deposition processes involve a complex interplay of chemistry and transport, both in the vapor and on the surface. Arriving at a mechanistic understanding usually requires both experimental process diagnostics and numerical simulation. Just as appropriate tools (gas chromatographs, lasers, spectrometers) are required for diagnostics, suitable numerical tools are needed for simula...

How, if at all, does the internal structure of human phenomenological color space map onto the internal structure of objective reflectance-profile space, in such a fashion as to provide a useful and accurate representation of that objective feature space? A prominent argument (due to Hardin, among others) proposes to eliminate colors as real, objective properties of objects, on grounds that not...