Neurological signs have been described as “false localising” if they reflect dysfunction distant or remote from the expected anatomical locus of pathology, hence challenging the traditional clinicoanatomical correlation paradigm on which neurological examination is based. False localising signs occur in two major contexts: as a consequence of raised intracranial pressure, and with spinal cord l...

We present an extension to indexicals to describe propagators for global constraints. The resulting language is compiled into actual propagators for different solvers, and is solver-independent. In addition, we show how this high-level description eases the proof of propagator properties, such as correctness and monotonicity. Experimental results show that propagators compiled from their indexi...

Resumo: De acordo com uma abordagem proeminente na semântica formal contemporânea, a verdade das asserções morais depende de perspectiva normativa sobre os fatos do mundo. A implementação dessa abordagem, conhecida como contextualismo indexical, trata dependência da moral vis-à-vis correspondente em analogia contextual característica sentenças contendo termos indexicais. Alternativamente, é vis...

Modal epistemic logics for many agents often assume a xed one-to-one correspondence between agents and the names for agents that occur in the language. This assumption restricts the applicability of any logic because it prohibits, for instance, anonymous agents, agents with many names, named groups of agents, and relative (indexical) reference. Here we examine the principles involved in such ca...

As we understand it, semantic minimalism is the view that: (i) an utterance u of a (declarative) sentence S expresses a proposition p whose constituents must all be represented by elements of S; (ii) the structure of p reflects the logical form of S,1 and (iii) if S does not contain indexical expressions, u expresses p in a FN:1 context-independent way. This last claim can be illustrated in con...

Epistemic modals have long been observed to be ambiguous between a speaker-oriented interpretation (Lyon’s 1977 ‘subjective’ interpretation) and an interpretation that reflects general knowledge (the ‘objective’ interpretation). In recent work, Papafragou (2006) argues that subjectively interpreted epistemics are non-truth conditional, and that this results from them being indexical to the spea...

The article presents proposals for an indexical evaluation of exposure of hand tool operators to vibrations. The presented indices have been developed on the basis of the results of laboratory tests. The examinations studied the effect of pressure force and grip force exerted by an operator on a hand tool as well as the amplitudes and frequencies of an exciting signal on vibrations transmitted ...

Sex differences in vowel acoustics were found to be mediated by words' frequency of use and phonological neighborhood density. Larger sex differences in vowel-space expansion were found for words with high frequency of use and for words with small phonological neighborhoods, than for words than for words with low frequency of use and high neighborhood density. Results suggest that talkers' prod...

Two different approaches to the compositional semantics of indexicals are compared. The outsidein approach uses λ-abstraction and is heavily lexicalised. The inside-out approach treats indexicals by presupposition resolution. The former is relatively simple to implement and deals in a natural way with multiple occurences of indexicals. The latter is more complex, but has potential to deal with ...