Five plant checklists from areas on and adjacent to the Guiana Shield were analyzed and used to test hypotheses of the salient properties of the flora of northeastern South America. Newly available checklists of Iwokrama, Mabura Hill, and Kaieteur Falls (all three in Guyana), Central French Guiana, and Reserva Ducke near Manaus, Brazil were compiled and their nomenclatural synonymies standardiz...

Through the generosity of Garban-Intercapital, the Fund for Epilepsy is making the following prizes available: (1) to those who have recently written a dissertation or thesis which has been accepted for a higher degree of a British or Irish university. The theme of the dissertation/thesis must primarily be devoted to the study of human epilepsy. There is no further restriction on the topic.) fo...

It is a challenging task to identify eLearning courses parts that have to be revised to best suit learners’ requirements. Reading being one of the most salient learning activities, one way of doing so is to study how learners consume courses. We intend to support course authors (e.g. teachers) during courses revision by providing them with reading indicators. We use the concept of reading sessi...

The manuscript of Joachim Meyer dated 1561 kept in the Bavarian National Museum Munich, was ignored by specialised bibliographical works on fencing and absent secondary literature about fight books. This re-discovery sheds a new light story composition treatise printed 1570 this same author. Research Note briefly presents perspectives it opens up pending larger scientific investigation. It cont...

Experiments on the detection of the source language of literary translations are described. Two feature types are exploited, n-gram based features and document-level statistics. Crossvalidation results on a corpus of twenty 19th-century texts including translations from Russian, French, German and texts written in English are promising: single feature classifiers yield significant gains on the ...

This study aims to determine whether the production of the lexical variants created by the phonological processes of liaison and schwa deletion in French are conditioned by factors linked to lexical recognition. We hypothesise that the realisation of these variants would be favoured for words which are lexically “salient” in term of frequency and in their lexical neighbourhoods. This claim was ...

GODWIN JESCHAL, Politik und Wissenschaft deutscher Aerzte im Ersten Weltkrieg, (Wutrzburger Medizinhistorische Forschungen, Band 13), Pattensen/ Han., Horst Wellm Verlag, 1980, 8vo, pp. 169, DM. 26.00 (paperback). This doctoral thesis from Berlin tells the old and unedifying story of how the leaders of the German medical profession followed their imperialist government in supporting the 1914-18...