BACKGROUND Although lower uptake rates of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations have been documented, less is known about the relationships between awareness and acceptability, and other factors affecting HPV vaccine uptake.The current study aimed to estimate the potential effectiveness of increased HPV vaccine awareness on the acceptability of...

In this paper, we deal with the issue of variability in different measures of linguistic acceptability. It has been argued that acceptability, when measured with the magnitude estimation method (ME), reveals the underlying gradience of linguistic judgments, while other measures, like Likert-scale judgments (e.g. on a 7-point scale) do not provide the same amount of information about the gradien...

In July 2010, the CAPRISA 004 trial demonstrated that a vaginal microbicide gel containing the antiretroviral drug tenofovir, reduced the risk of HIV infection for women by 39%. A confirmatory trial, FACTS 001, is ongoing in South Africa. If tenofovir microbicide gel is proven to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition, it could be available as an additional HIV prevention option for women in the fo...

Linguistic acceptability judgments are a critical part of the toolkit for linguistic investigation. An implicit assumption of much work using these judgments is that the data are stable, presumably reflecting the underlying nature of grammatical representation. Here, I demonstrate that for a range of constructions — including so-called island-violating sentences, those with resumptive pronouns,...

We present a new approach to termination analysis of logic programs. The essence of the approach is that we make use of general orderings (instead of level mappings), like it is done in transformational approaches to logic program termination analysis, but we apply these orderings directly to the logic program and not to the term-rewrite system obtained through some transformation. We define so...

We present a left to right incremental algorithm for the processing of Lambek categorial grammar by proof net construction. A simple metric of complexity, the profile in time of the number of unresolved valencies, correctly predicts a wide variety of performance phenomena: garden pathing, left to right quantifier scope preference, centre embedding unacceptability, preference for lower attachmen...

We present a proof theory and a proof procedure for non-monotonic reasoning based on the acceptability semantics for logic programming , formulated in an argumentation framework. These proof theory and procedure are deened as generalisations of corresponding proof theories and procedures for the stable theory and preferred extension semantics. In turn, these can be seen as generalisations of th...