Two new species of Xestoblatta from northern Brazil are described, Xestoblatta buhrnheimi sp. n. and Xestoblatta rondonensis sp. n., included in the buscki group Gurney (1939), and new characters are added to the description of Xestoblatta mamorensis Lopes & Oliveira, 2006. Xestoblatta roppai Rocha e Albuquerque-Silva & Fraga, 1975, from midwestern Brazil is redescribed, including its genital c...

Event passives are verbal passives of causative predcates which involve only a causing event and no agent. Studying this kind of passive, I critically review the popular claim in research on passives and implicit arguments that verbal passives semantically always include an implicit argument (Bhatt & Pancheva 2006). I contend that this view is not very reasonable from a semantic perspective. Mo...

Enhanced surveillance for infectious disease events, with accelerated routine reporting and daily supplementary reports, was undertaken during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. We evaluated the surveillance outputs, reporting intervals and detection of World Cup-relevant events for the enhanced system. Outbreak numbers for measles, Norovirus and Campylobacter were significantly higher than in...

We present a corpus for protest event mining that combines token-level annotation with the event schema and ontology of entities and events from protest research in the social sciences. The dataset uses newswire reports from the English Gigaword corpus. The token-level annotation is inspired by annotation standards for event extraction, in particular that of the Automated Content Extraction 200...

Introduction. That semantic type-mismatch can have measurable effects on processing has been robustly demonstrated for complement coercion, where an event-selecting verb coerces an entity-denoting object into an event predicate (1) (e.g., McElree et al., 2001). A similar shift has been proposed for aspect when a punctual verb combines with a durative modifier, yielding an iterative interpretati...

This paper studies the abstractive multi-document summarization for event-oriented news texts through event information extraction and abstract representation. Fine-grained event mentions and semantic relations between them are extracted to build a unified and connected event semantic link network, an abstract representation of source texts. A network reduction algorithm is proposed to summariz...

OBJECTIVES To characterise the costs to the UK National Health Service of cardiovascular (CV) events among individuals receiving lipid-modifying therapy. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink records from 2006 to 2012 to identify individuals with their first and second CV-related hospitalisations (first event and second event cohorts). Within-person diffe...

introduction: unfortunately, the prevalence of traumatic events among children is quite high. these events will result in different kinds of affective, cognitive and behavioral problems. this study examines the frequency of life traumatic events and their psychological impacts in the urban students of kermanshah in 2006. materials and methods: using cluster random sampling, 475 primary and seco...