Thirty-five years ago, Noam Chomsky introduced the field of linguistics to new mathematical tools drawn largely from Recursive Function Theory. These were exciting tools that imparted mathematical precision, perhaps for the first time in the history of Linguistics, to the enterprise of grammar construction. The cornerstone of Chomsky’s new theoretical edifice, was the linguistic transformation,...

We show how “taking updates seriously” leads from state-based lenses to update lenses and further; we witness a little hierarchy of types of lens that arises in a systematic way. Lenses of each type are characterized either as coalgebras of certain types of comonads or morphisms between certain types of comonads. In each case, a lens is simulation between two transition systems for suitable not...

In recent years the use of computers and related technologies for education purposes has increased exponentially. Organizations from different sectors started to invest in educational software for learning, so did universities and other academic institutions. Research in this area has increased to explore the benefits that are possible through the use of computers to promote education. The pape...

Sadatsafavi and colleagues address the question of the safety of long-acting β-agonists (LABA) in asthma with and without the concomitant use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). They carried out a study within the administrative healthcare databases of the province of British Columbia, Canada. The universal healthcare system provides healthcare for all residents of the province and includes cover...

30) We discuss on the potential integration of Serious Games into the conceptual framework of Artificial Transportation Systems, focusing on behaviour elicitation through peer-designed agents to model and simulate artificial societies on a participative basis.

In 2009, nearly 2.4 million adults in California reported having seriously thought about suicide during their lifetimes. Among these adults, more than half a million had thought seriously about suicide sometime during the past year. Members of sexual minorities were almost three times as likely as all adults in California to have had suicidal thoughts during the past year. This policy brief, ba...

We introduce the new grammar formalism of Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG), enabling us to take the different dimensions of linguistic description more seriously than existing grammar formalisms. XDG treats the different linguistic dimensions as separate, autonomous dependency graphs. We show how this allows us to naturally account for taxing phenomena such as free word order, control, and q...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life (QOL) of patients with psoriasis in Japan using Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). Furthermore, we had evaluated the correlation between DLQI and clinical severity of psoriasis. METHODS The Japanese version of DLQI was used to assess the QOL of patients. Psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) and Itch visual analogue scal...