Anaphoric relations between pronouns and their antecedents are subject to a number of different linguistic constraints, which exclude the possibility of coreference in specific syntactic or discourse contexts. Constraints on anaphora may, in principle, impact online sentence processing in a couple of different ways. They may act as constraints on the generation of interpretations, preventing il...

OBJECTIVE Vitiligo is a chronic skin disease that causes loss of pigment, resulting in irregular pale patches of skin. The disease has profound psychological consequences. These effects range from mild embarrassment to a severe loss of self-confidence and social anxiety, especially for those who have lesions on exposed skin. The study sought to determine the psychological impact of vitiligo in ...

BACKGROUND To test the validity of the short form of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) for use among adults in Greece. METHODS The original English version of the OHIP-14 was translated using the forward-backward technique, pilot-tested, and then applied to 211 adults aged 35 years and above. The questionnaire was filled out during face-to-face interviews conducted by one dentist, whil...

Distributed architectures and solutions are described for classes of constraint satisfaction problems, called network consistency problems. An inherent assumption of these architectures is that the communication network mimics the structure of the constraint problem. The solutions are required to be self-stabilizing and to treat arbitrary networks, which makes them suitable for dynamic or error...

We present an approach to self-adaptive systems utilizing explicit models of the design-space of the application. The design-space is captured by allowing the specification of alternatives for any component at any level in the model hierarchy. Non-functional requirements and additional knowledge about the system are captured in the form of OCL constraints parameterized by operational parameters...

Background: Lower extremity injuries are frequently observed in car-to-pedestrian accidents and due to the bumper height of most cars, knee joint is one of the most damaged body parts in car-to-pedestrian collisions.Objective: The aim of this paper is first to provide an accurate Finite Element model of the knee joint and second to investigate lower limb impact biomechanics in car-to-pede...

Energy Efficiency has become a critical metric in the current wireless communication and network because the energy spent for operating the networks is more. In particular, the base station is the most energy consuming part of a mobile network. This proposes an energy efficient Femtocells Power management scheme for enterprise environment.In order to achieve Power saving, this use the sleep mod...

We propose a new genre of overlay network for disseminating information from popular but resource constrained sources. We call this communication primitive as Latency Gradated Overlay, where information consumers self-organize themselves according to their individual resource constraints and the latency they are willing to tolerate in receiving the information from the source. Such a communicat...