The suggested hazards of tobacco use were enumerated shortly after its introduction to Europe in the 16th century. At the same time its presumed virtue as a general purpose medicament was extolled (Ray 1972). Since then the proponents and opponents of tobacco use have vigorously debated their positions. Ample evidence of potential harm has accumulated indicating disease conditions correlated wi...

In this paper we will discuss interpretation of adverbs in Japanese. We will explore the division of labor between the syntactic requirements, semantic requirements, and discourse-contextual constraints involving adverbial interpretation. It will then be argued that this inter-modular approach utilizing LFG explains various elusive paradigms of the adverbs. 1. Scope Ambiguity and Lexical Semant...

Adjunctive local anesthetic techniques and their armamentaria, such as intraosseous injection, computer-controlled delivery systems, periodontal ligament injection and needleless jet injection, have been proposed to hold particular advantages over conventional means of achieving local anesthesia. This article describes the use of each technique and proprietary armamentarium and reviews the lite...

Potentially difficult airways warrant the use of airway adjuncts, which, if not used with caution, can cause trauma to oral cavity. Although most operators are familiar modern as they routinely used, adverse events occur. Since its introduction, a video laryngoscope (VL) has been lauded necessary instrument for management in and out operating room. This case report highlights right tonsillar ti...

We present a modular, lexicalized, reversible and ambiguity preserving approach to semantic based transfer on sets of linear logic meaning and transfer constructors. In many cases, transfer on sets of meaning constructors (rather than on derived disambiguated meaning assignments) obviates the need for spurious multiple transfer on disambiguations. We concentrate on adjuncts and embedded head sw...