In an article published in a recent issue of the Bulletin, Therese Lindström showed that Henry Sweet (1845-1912) makes an interesting case for those who are interested in the history of the treatment of ‘grammaticalisation’ in Britain. As it appears, the distinguished name giver of our Society made a distinction between ‘full words’ and ‘form words’, i.e., between content words and function wor...

The TAC 2009 update summarization task is to generate not more than 100-words fluent summaries for the given document sets of newswire articles. The newswire articles are relevance to the same event topic, stated by title and narrative If we take the background information of the topic into consideration according to the topic statement, it will help to understand the content of the news articl...

A quad inserted into a turbulent boundary layer of a flat plate and its effect on average heat transfer and the friction coefficient is studied. To optimize this effect, the edge sizes and distance of the quad from the flat plate are continually modified. In each case, simultaneously the heat transfer enhancement and reduction in skin friction are analyzed. For optimization, the genetic algorit...