this research is designed to produce detailed descriptions of the morphological ergativity in three south asian languages. the chosen sample includes hindi/urdu, pashto and balochi, as morphologically enough to achieve the goals and generalizations of the research. the study presents the range of variation in case and agreement marking in these south asian descendants of the common indo-iranian...

Thinking Aloud Thinking Aloud is the most commonly used technique used to test users ́ interaction with computers. The assumption is that Think Aloud gives access to what goes on in the users ́ minds. However, interfaces are multi modal and play heavily on user ́s visual perception. Reflecting upon Think Aloud (TA), we ask the question: what happens when users are required to verbalise their visua...

BACKGROUND A Royal Statistical Society Working Party recently recommended that "Greater use should be made of numerical, as opposed to verbal, descriptions of risk" in first-in-man clinical trials. This echoed the view of many clinicians and psychologists about risk communication. As the clinical trial industry expands rapidly across the globe, it is important to understand risk communication i...

PURPOSE To determine the effectiveness of verbal, written, and videotaped descriptions of cataract surgery on patients' understanding of the risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives. SETTING Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. DESIGN Randomized prospective study. METHODS Patients eligible for cataract surgery were randomized into 1 of 4 arms of the in...

The purpose of this research is to explore through drawings and verbal descriptions women's perspectives about reasons why persons might decline human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. We asked 30 participants to draw a person that would NOT get tested for HIV and then explain drawings. Using qualitative content analysis, we extracted seven themes. We found apprehension about knowing the re...

At present, the only means used for specifying design patterns are contemporary object notations [Rumbaugh et. al 91; Booch 94], lengthy verbal descriptions, and sample programs. The inherent ambiguity and incompleteness of these means preclude devising tool support and fuel disputes over “their true intention”. We identified a compact set of abstractions with simple graphical representation, w...

Ways of guiding people from a given location to specific other locations are discussed. Different classes of wayfinding tasks are distinguished. Various parameters that influence the suitability of certain wayfinding aids for specific wayfinding tasks are identified. Maps are compared with verbal route descriptions and the respective advantages of the two wayfinding aids are discussed. Spatiall...

An ordinal classification task is defined. An approach to the construction of full ordinal classification on the basis of a decision maker’s knowledge is proposed. It allows elicitation of information (or knowledge) in a natural form for the decision maker (through qualitative attribute scales and verbal descriptions of decision classes). It provides verification of the received judgments for c...

Over the past decade, automated systems dedicated to geopositioning have been the object of considerable development. Despite the success of these systems for many applications, they cannot be directly applied to qualitative descriptions of space. The research presented in this paper introduces a visibility and constraint-based approach whose objective is to locate an observer from the verbal d...

The types of lexicons necessary for Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL) logical analysis will be described. We will show the algorithm for analysing the TIL verbal object as the core of a clause construction within the sentence analysis. Examples of verb frame analysis for Czech words will be presented. We also depict a way of enriching the lexicon entries as combinations of the descriptions of...