language and meaning are among the most important subjects which scholars have discussed since the earliest times and sometimes they have presented contradictory viewpoints about it. undoubtedly, language and meanings have a life for themselves; some of them extinguish in their lifespan and others will survive. some others undergo transformation and present themselves in new shapes. similar to ...

Inflammation is a risk factor for the development of many types of neoplasia, including skin, colon, gastric, and mammary cancers, among others. The role of inflammation in lung neoplasia is influenced by many other factors. Asthma is a very common chronic disease that occurs in all age groups. Some studies reported a positive association between asthma and lung cancer, even in never-smoking pa...

In this paper I revive two important formal approaches to the interpretation of natural language, that of Montague and that of Karttunen and Peters. Armed with insights from dynamic semantics (Heim, Krifka) the two turn out to stand up against age-old criticisms in an orthodox fashion. The plan is mainly methodological, as I only want to illustrate the technical feasibility of the revived propo...

Over the last twenty years, several algorithms have been proposed for automatic rule/constraint discovery from data, for the purpose of data cleaning. These algorithms look for constraints such as functional dependencies (FDs), conditional FDs (CFDs), inclusion dependencies (INDs), conditional INDs (CINDs), association rules, integrity constraints (ICs) and denial constraints (DCs), among other...