Comment on 'Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note' Bhagat H, Agarwal A, Sharma MSJournal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008, 3:14 (22 May 2008).

We present a method for automatic RMRS semantics construction from dependency structures, following the semantic algebra of Copestake et al. (2001). We have applied this method to a subset of the TIGER Dependency Bank for German (Forst et al., 2004) to obtain a semantic treebank for (HPSG) parser evaluation. We describe the semantics construction mechanism and give evaluation figures from manua...

Financial reports should provide useful information to both shareholders and creditors, according to U.S. accounting principles. However, directors of corporations have fiduciary duties only toward equity holders, and those fiduciary duties normally do not extend to the interests of creditors. We examine whether this slant in corporate governance biases financial reports in favor of equity inve...

Ozone Widget Framework (OWF) is an event-based web platform for lightweight integration of widget applications. This technical report presents a formal model of OWF’s widget composition mechanism. First, we present a detailed description of Ozone’s end user composition mechanism. Then, we describe our architectural modeling approach and its value for analysis of OWF widget compositions. We go t...

In order to enable courseware reuse, it is necessary to decompose learning materials into manageable learning objects. Most scientific projects and organizations that are concerned with courseware reuse and exchange like Ariadne [2], IMS Global Learning Consortium [4], Educause [3], the IEEE Learning Technologies Standards Committee [8] with its Learning Object Metadata (LOM) [7], and the Germa...

The Sharma-Mittal entropies generalize the celebrated Shannon, Rényi and Tsallis entropies. We report a closed-form formula for the Sharma-Mittal entropies and relative entropies for arbitrary exponential family distributions. We instantiate explicitly the formula for the case of the multivariate Gaussian distributions and discuss on its estimation. PACS numbers: 03.65.Ta, 03.67.-a Submitted to...

INTRODUCTION Guided tissue regeneration (GTR) is a successful treatment procedure of periodontal reconstructive surgery. Adverse effects can be observed after GTR procedure, but external root resorption is rarely reported at clinical studies. Invasive cervical resorption is a clinical term used to describe a relatively uncommon, insidious, and often aggressive form of external root resorption. ...

In plants, algae, and most bacteria, the heme and chlorophyll precursor 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is formed from glutamate in a three-step process. First, glutamate is ligated to its cognate tRNA by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase. Activated glutamate is then converted to a glutamate 1-semialdehyde (GSA) by glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GTR) in an NADPH-dependent reaction. Subsequently, GSA is rearranged...

The ideas and results contained in this document are part of my thesis, which will be published as a Stanford computer science technical report in June 1999. Similar ideas applied to the EMD under translation have already been published in the technical report [1]. We begin some intuition, examples, and informal definitions. The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is a distance measure between discret...