Syntactic disambiguation frequently requires knowledge of the semantic categories of nouns, especially in languages with free word order. For example, in Spanish the phrases pintó un cuadro un pintor (lit. painted a picture a painter) and pintó un pintor un cuadro (lit. painted a painter a picture) mean the same: ‘a painter painted a picture’. The only way to tell the subject from the object is...

The bombyliid genus Lepidophora has a distribution restricted to the New World. The genus is composed by eight species, which are revised and redescribed herein: five restricted to the Neotropical region (L. acroleuca Painter, 1930, L. culiciformis Walker, 1850, L. cuneata Painter, 1939, L. secutor Walker, 1857 and L. trypoxylona Hall, 1981), two restricted to the Nearctic region (L. lepidocera...

Oleg Sydor-Hibelynda's article raises the issue of existence a European Salon in context Modernist art, some on which uses. French painter Georg-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859– 1939) іs one those who tried to combine salon academicism and individual images symbolism decadence; far examples, he illustrated «Fleur du Mal» by Charles Baudelaire and«Salambo» Gustav Flaubert, also designed opera performa...

We consider a version of the on-line graph coloring problem as a two person game. Players are called Spoiler and Painter. Spoiler reveals a graph by putting or removing a node. But at each time the total number of nodes on the board is bounded by previously fixed constant n. Painter must assign a color to any new node such that two nodes connected by an edge have different colors. He cannot cha...

The prints of Sebald Beham and his brother Barthel were the subject of a recent exhibition titled Gottlosen Maler at the AlbrechtDűrer-Haus in Nuremberg (March 3–July 3, 2011), where this essay was included in the exhibition catalogue in German. Revised and expanded for publication in this journal in English, the essay addresses Beham’s biography and historiography and argues that Beham should ...