Ukraine is once again at a political crossroads. Like many of the world’s troubled nations, its presentday borders refl ect historical events that paid little attention to the national identities of those involved, such as the westward expansion after World War 2 into what had been Polish territory, and Nikita Khrushchev’s unexpected 1954 gift from Russia to Ukraine of Crimea. Just like Russia ...

The paper introduces Treex CR, a coreference resolution (CR) system not only for Czech. As its name suggests, it has been implemented as an integral part of the Treex NLP framework. The main feature that distinguishes it from other CR systems is that it operates on the tectogrammatical layer, a representation of deep syntax. This feature allows for natural handling of elided expressions, e.g. u...

The general product development can be divided into three phases: creative, conceptual and engineering phase. All phases of the complete life cycle of a product are supported by various IT-systems often called ‘CAx’-systems. Therefore CAD-education should be extended to ‘CAx-education’ and pay attention to all phases of the life cycle. When looking at today’s process chain many different jobs r...

Phytosterols are common components of plant foods, especially vegetable oils, seeds, nuts and cereals. It is generally assumed that all serum and tissue phytosterols are derived exclusively by intestinal absorption and therefore that serum levels of phytosterols reflect dietary plant sterol intake and intestinal absorption (Miettinen et al. 1990). We suggest that there is another route of intak...

The most common causes of hypoparathyroidism are iatrogenic: mostly thyroid or parathyroid surgery. Much less frequently HypoPT is caused by an extensive oncological surgical procedure e.g. because of larynx or upper throat cancer, or external neck radiotherapy, e.g. in the case of lymphoma. In those particular cases, both patients and doctors focus their attention on the oncological nature of ...