Between January and October, 1987, we attempted percutaneous transcatheter closure of seven ventricular septal defects (VSD) in six patients; none of the patients was a candidate for operative management. Patients' ages ranged from 8 months to 82 years (6.0-70 kg); diagnoses included postinfarction VSD (n = 4), congenital VSD (n = 1), and postoperative congenital VSD (n = 2). Indications for VS...

Most natural-language-processing (NLP) tasks suffer performance degradation when encountering long complex sentences, such as semantic parsing, syntactic machine translation, and text summarization. Previous works addressed the issue with intuition of decomposing sentences linking simple ones, rhetorical-structure-theory (RST)-style discourse split-and-rephrase (SPRP), simplification (TS), sent...

This paper discusses a special kind of syntax-semantics mismatch: a noun with a relative clause is interpreted as if it were a complement clause. An analysis in terms of Lexical Resource Semantics is developed which provides a uniform account for “normal” relative clauses and for the discussed type of relative clause.

The Japanese infinitive-clause construction (InfCx) and gerund-clause construction (GerCx) may convey a wide range of interclausal semantic relations, including ‘temporal sequence’, ‘cause’, and ‘manner’, largely due to pragmatic enrichment. This work addresses the question of what the core meaning(s) of the two constructions is (are), and demonstrates (i) that the InfCx and GerCx indicate eith...

This paper is devoted to investigate resolution for quantified generalized clause-sets (QCLS). The soundness and refutation completeness are proved. Then quantified generalized Horn clause-sets are introduced for which a restricted resolution, called quantified positive unit resolution, is proved to be sound and refutationally complete. Moreover, it is shown that the satisfiability for quantifi...

Hitting clause-sets (as CNFs), known in DNF language as “disjoint” or “orthogonal”, are clause-sets F , such that any C,D ∈ F , C 6= D, have a literal x ∈ C with x ∈ D. The set of unsatisfiable such F is denoted by UHIT ⊂ MU (minimal unsatisfiability). A basic fact is δ(F ) ≥ 1 for F ∈ MU , where the deficiency δ(F ) := c(F ) − n(F ) is the difference between the number of clauses and the numbe...

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A tetrawalled and an octawalled molecular umbrella conjugate of amphotericin B (AmB) have been synthesized. Both conjugates exhibit high water solubility, a low tendency to aggregate, negligible hemolytic activity at 100 μM, and an ability to release a derivative of AmB under reducing conditions that exhibits high antifungal activity. Whereas the larger, octawalled conjugate shows slight adsorp...

A 49-year-old woman had a vena caval filters inserted having suffered multiple pulmonary emboli and a large upper gastrointestinal bleed. She re-presented five years later with loin pain and obstructive uropathy. She was found to have a right pelvi-ureteric obstruction due to inferior vena caval wall perforation from the vena caval filter.

In this paper we show how information structure affects the text coherence for before/after-sentences in a discourse. We analyse information structure with respect to the question of how information is presented on the sentence level and how the presented information can be connected to the preceding discourse. In particular, we raise the question of when a preposed temporal clause is felicitou...