Roget’s Thesaurus has gone through many revisions since it was first published 150 years ago. But how do these revisions affect Roget’s usefulness for NLP? We examine the differences in content between the 1911 and 1987 versions of Roget’s, and we test both versions with each other and WordNet on problems such as synonym identification and word relatedness. We also present a novel method for me...

Anthro 1218 8 April 2016 Examining the Form and Function of the Iban War Canoe Salient aspects of this boat’s construction are suggested by its name: war canoe. Indeed, features of a boat’s construction are highly correlated with its stated purpose, and this parallel certainly holds true in the case of the model of an Iban canoe. The unity of form and function is enhanced by an understanding of...

Twelve species of the subgenus Vestiplex (Diptera, Tipulidae) were previously known to occur in Tibet (= Xizang), China. Here, six are described and illustrated as new science: Tipula (Vestiplex) bucera sp. nov., magatama motuoensis nayogabuensis platyphylla nov. uncinella The following three redescribed: himalayensis Brunetti, 1911, nigroapicalis 1911 zayulensis Alexander, 1963. A key from is ...

Pharmacopoeia can be issued, there is ample scope for the present work. The remedies are arranged in alphabetical order. The information given includes a brief description of each drug, its source, formula, solubility, action, uses, dosage and the name of the firm who manufacture it. The book rarely speaks with the voice of authority when noting the therapeutie use of the remedies, but simply s...

We estimate the size of inheritance flows in Switzerland as a share of total wealth and of national income over a long span of data, in close analogy to the study for France by Piketty (2011). We find that the relative importance of inheritance had been falling slightly up until the 1970s, but has been increasing strongly since. According to our central estimates, the annual flow of inheritance...

[This corrects the article on p. 1911 in vol. 11, PMID: 27574415.].

The genera Anexodus Pascoe, 1866 and Pantilema Aurivillius, 1911 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Morimopsini), both endemic to Borneo, are revised. Four species of Anexodus are recognized: A. aquilus Pascoe, 1886 (Malaysia: Sabah), A. sarawakensis Sudre, 1997 (Malaysia: Sarawak), A. syptakovaesp. n. (Malaysia: Sarawak), and A. tufisp. n. (Brunei). Pantilema is a monotypic genus containing P. angustum ...