PURPOSE: Complications of nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) include necrosis of the nipple-areolar complex (NAC) or mastectomy skin flaps. NAC and mastectomy flap delay procedures are novel techniques designed to avoid these complications, and may be combined with retroareolar biopsy when performed prior to NSM. We performed a systematic review of the literature to evaluate techniques for NAC and...

Cooperative Management has appeared as a promising paradigm on which Network and System Management (NSM) solutions should be partially or entirely based. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to obtain, from any CIM schemas, NSM frame-based ontologies which can then be used in cooperative management solutions.

Natural semantics is a formalism used for specifying both semantics and implementations of programming languages. Until recently, no practical implementation of the formalism existed. We have deened the Relational MetaLanguage , RML, as an executable speciication language for natural semantics. After a brief outline of the language, we describe the compilation strategy used by our rml2c compile...

This paper reviews discourse phenomena that occur frequently in task.oriented man.machine dialogs, reporting on a~n empirical study that demonstrates the necessity of handling ellipsis, anaphora, extragrammaticality, inter-sentential metalanguage, and other abbreviatory devices in order to achieve convivial user interaction. Invariably, users prefer to generate terse or fragmentary utterances i...

This paper reviews discourse phenomena that occur frequently in task.oriented man.machine dialogs, reporting on a~n empirical study that demonstrates the necessity of handling ellipsis, anaphora, extragrammaticality, inter-sentential metalanguage, and other abbreviatory devices in order to achieve convivial user interaction. Invariably, users prefer to generate terse or fragmentary utterances i...

Various meta-languages for the manipulation and specification of programs and programming languages have recently been proposed. We examine one such framework, called natural semantics, which was inspired by the work of G. Plotkin on operational semantics and extended by G. Kahn and others at INRIA. Natural semantics makes use of a first-order meta-language which represents programs as first-or...

This poster presentation is the culmination of an extensive statistical study of Latin elegy. The notion that poetic sound represents a distinct layer of information where discrete patterns can be found is an intriguing one. In a theoretical context, sound captures a "metalanguage" that is universal to all discourse, but only exposed in poetry. This poster develops a model for metalanguage and ...

Metalanguage is an essential linguistic mechanism which allows us to communicate explicit information about language itself. However, it has been underexamined in research in language technologies, to the detriment of the performance of systems that could exploit it. This paper describes the creation of the first tagged and delineated corpus of English metalanguage, accompanied by an explicit d...

An object-oriented language with automatic synthesis of methods (programs) and transformations of OO descriptions using a logical metalanguage (Horn-clause logic) are considered. Automatic synthesis of methods (Proof-As-Program approach) is based on intuitionistic propositional calculus. The metalanguage expresses general knowledge related to classes and objects and it is used for describing tr...