Various claims have been made in the developmental literature about the relationship between language and categorisation in children. Drawing on the notion of the domain-specificity of cognition, the paper reviews evidence on the effect of language in the classification of and reasoning about categories from different domains. The review looks at the anthropological, infant classification, and ...

This paper describes an empirical study on typing errors made by children during a text copy exercise. The literature on text input errors is first examined, focussing on studies of errors that occur during keyboard typing. A study of errors made by children during typing is described and the results from this study are analysed using visual inspection and already published error categorisation...

The notion of ‘guilt’ has been subject of examination through the methods of Membership Categorisation Analysis as a part of the work of formal institutions such as courts, police, and schools where the consequences of decisions made may have direct effects on the person being judged. However whilst this research has provided access to the process of ‘negotiating’ guilt in these highly ritualiz...

The number of publications in the area of Cutting and Packing (C&P) has increased considerably over the last two decades. The typology of C&P problems introduced by Dyckhoff [Dyckhoff, H., 1990. A typology of cutting and packing problems. European Journal of Operational Research 44, 145–159] initially provided an excellent instrument for the organisation and categorisation of existing and new l...

The categorisation of documents into subject-specific categories is a useful enhancement for large document collections addressed by information retrieval (IR) systems, as a user can first browse a category tree in search of the category that best matches her interests, and then issue a query for more specific documents “from within the category”. This approach combines two modalities in inform...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index risk categorisation on the survival of patients with follicular lymphoma treated in one centre. METHOD The retrospective study comprised follicular lymphoma patients treated from 1997 to 2010 at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore. Their baseline prognostic index score, stag...