This paper presents the implementation of the Vietnamese generation module in ITS3, a multilingual machine translation (MT) system based on the Government & Binding (GB) theory. Despite well-designed generic mechanisms of the system, it turned out that the task of generating Vietnamese posed non-trivial problems. We therefore had to deviate from the generic code and make new design and implemen...

The paper considers how the Treuhandanstalt's legal identity as both a public and private entity helps to explain the process of privatization or creation of property by the state after 1989. I argue the agency did not easily fit within the rigid categories of the German legal system. Moreover, its hybrid status limited the degree to which individuals or groups could make use of the courts to h...

The goal of this article is to show how certain problems of German syntax can find a natural solution in a theory which has become known over the last few years as Connectedness Theory (CT). I want to make clear from the very beginning, however, that CT is used here in a rather loose sense, to refer to a class of theoretical developments. It should therefore not be expected that the analyses pr...

We report the discovery of seven new millisecond pulsars during 20 cm searches of 19 globular clusters using the recently upgraded Arecibo Telescope and the new Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Five of the pulsars are in compact binaries, three of which are eclipsing. One of the systems is in an eccentric orbit which is almost certainly highly relativistic. Additional searches and timing observation...

Drought is a recurrent feature of the American landscape. Almost without exception, the occurrence of widespread severe drought in the United States has illustrated the low level of drought preparedness that has existed in federal and state governments. Many state governments, however, have developed formal drought contingency plans since 1982. The primary purpose of this article is to explore ...

BACKGROUND In 2013, Kenya transitioned into a devolved system of government with a central government and 47 semi-autonomous county governments. In this paper, we report early experiences of devolution in the Kenyan health sector, with a focus on public county hospitals. Specifically, we examine changes in hospital autonomy as a result of devolution, and how these have affected hospital functio...

This article asks how Internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government, and citizen trust in government are interrelated. We first review the literature on trust and explore how radical information technologies may work to alter the production or maintenance of trust. We then develop hypotheses about how citizens’ experience with e-government, satisfaction with e-government and government W...

Like many trends that influence public policy and administration, ‘e-government’ is a multifaceted and nebulous idea, easily applied to a range of different situations, across the entire gamut of government and society, and with differing intentions. There are wideranging claims made for e-government, considerable hopes pinned on it, and substantial commitments – financial and otherwise – made ...