By A. Porter, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., M.R.I.A., F.M.U., Professor Medical Jurisprudence, Madras Medical College. It would appear from Clievers's Medical Jurisprudence, that poisoning by this substance is rare. It is cultivated in most gardens in Southern India, and is known as c the coral plant,' from the appearance of its flowers, or as 4 French physic-nut,' from the appearance and properties of its...

We present a system for generating and understanding of dynamic and static spatial relations in robotic interaction setups. Robots describe an environment of moving blocks using English phrases that include spatial relations such as “across” and “in front of”. We evaluate the system in robot-robot interactions and show that the system can robustly deal with visual perception errors, language om...

Large text corpora with news, customer mail and reports, or Web 2.0 contributions offer a great potential for enhancing business-intelligence applications. We propose a framework for performing text analytics on such data in a versatile, efficient, and scalable manner. While much of the prior literature has emphasized mining keywords or tags in blogs or social-tagging communities, we emphasize ...

this article addresses the phonetic and phonological representation of h- phrase accent in the tonal structure of persian pre-nuclear accents. in an experimental study, three groups of pre-nuclear accentual phrases, namely, phrases with antepenultimate, penultimate and final stress pattern, were selected for tonal examination. materials were designed so as to yield under-pressure and pressure f...

By the notion "bound focus", we mean phonological prominence and semantic affectedness that is dependent on the presence of a focus-demanding lexical element such as only or even. This paper tries to demonstrate that modem conceptions of syntactic theory such as the Minimalist Program explain in a natural way the various word orders that can be observed. Crucial use is made of the idea that foc...