This work presents an initial investigation on how to distinguish collocations from free combinations. The assumption is that , while free combinations can be literally translated, the overall meaning of collocations is different from the sum of the translation of its parts. Based on that, we verify whether a machine translation system can help us perform such distinction. Results show that it ...

Standard temporal models assume that observation times are correct, whereas in many real-world settings (particularly those involving human data entry) noisy time stamps are quite common. Serious problems arise when these time stamps are taken literally. This paper introduces a modeling framework for handling uncertainty in observation times and describes inference algorithms that, under certai...

"We are not experts in the technology we buy. We are experts in the technology of logistics and supply chain integration.” Richard L. Hunter, Dell Computer "The Internet offered a logical extension of our direct model,...we used Internet browsers to essentially give the same information to our customers and suppliers -bringing them literally inside our business. This became the key to what I ca...

SODHANA, which literally means purification, is a procedure necessary for every drug before taking it for adding in any compound or subjecting it for further processes like Bhasmikarana (incineration) etc. Purified drug in the lines of modern science is different from, that of Ayurveda as the former is cent percent the main drug only and latter may contain other particles also. Present paper gi...

The term otitis externa does not refer to a specific disease process but literally to an inflammation of the external ear canal. The prevalence in the dog has been reported to be between 10 and 20 percent, although in more tropical climates the prevalence is 50% or more. The incidence in the cat is less and reported to be approximately 2 to 10 percent. Otitis externa has multiple causes includi...

One of the fastest-rising keywords in the physics literature is “social”. Literally thousands of papers in physics are devoted to modeling social systems, and indeed regular sections of leading journals such as Physica A and Physical Review E are devoted to this topic. The analogy between people and particles has been so consistent that a recent popular review was appropriately titled The Socia...

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have brought the miracle of childbirth to literally hundreds of thousands of adults who would otherwise not have conceived children; indeed, it is now estimated that 1% to 3% of all births in many developed nations involve ARTs.1 The first ART birth, however, was not until 1978, and so even the oldest such offspring are only now entering young adult lif...

SAS/GRAPH® software enables you to summarize your data and present a summary using various charting options and view it from different directions. Drill down graphs let you slice and dice ONLY what you see in the main chart. To literally drill into a graph for additional information and charting, further coding is required, but easy to do. The method presented makes a chart vastly more dynamic....

More than a decade ago Professor Bewley set out to answer a difficult question, “Why don’t wages fall in a recession?” After years of painstaking research, involving literally hundreds of interviews with market participants and many, many hours of decoding unstructured information, he reached the answer. “The only one of the many theories of wage rigidity that seems reasonable is the morale the...

Adverse drug reactions are among the most frequent side effects of synthetic and complementary alternative drugs and represent the premier causes of license revocations and acute liver failure. Drug-induced liver injury can resemble literally any other genuine liver disease and usually responds well to drug dechallenge. However, in some cases autoimmune-like hepatitis can evolve, requiring shor...