The launching of the JOT provides a welcome opportunity to resume the Eiffel column that ran for many years in JOOP from 1998 (edited first by Rock Howard from whom I took over in 1998). It will run pretty much like its predecessor, with a mix of contributions by guest columnists and by me, and a mix of topics — from language matters to methodological issues of object-oriented software construc...

Sign languages (SL) require a fundamental rethinking of many basic assumptions about human language processing because instead of using linear speech, sign languages coarticulate facial expressions, shoulder and hand movements, eye gaze and usage of a three-dimensional space. SL researchers have therefore advocated SL-specific approaches that do not start from the biases of models that were ori...

Construction Grammar has reached a stage of maturity where many researchers are looking for an explicit formal grounding of their work. Recently, there have been exciting developments to cater for this demand, most notably in Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) and Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). Unfortunately, like playing a music instrument, the formalisms used by SBCG and FCG take time ...

The construction of a polynomial interpolant to data given at finite pointsets in IR (or, most generally, to data specified by finitely many linear functionals) is considered, with special emphasis on the linear system to be solved. Gauss elimination by segments (i.e., by groups of columns rather than by columns) is proposed as a reasonable means for obtaining a description of all solutions and...

Bone-FixES is an expert system currently under development to aid student and clinical practitioner decision making for construction of external skeletal fixation devices. External skeletal fixation devices (also called fixators) are used to secure broken bone segments during the healing process. For teaching, Bone-FixES will be used to provide feedback to students given a clinical scenario and...

During last decades, owing to the increase in a number of vehicles, the rate of accident occurrence grows significantly. Efforts must be made to provide efficient tools to prioritize segments requiring safety improvement and identify influential factors on accidents. This objective of the research was to determine the safety oriented threshold of International Roughness Index (IRI) to recognize...

Prevention and estimation of soil erosion from forest roads requires an understanding of how road design and maintenance affect sediment production. Seventyfour plots were installed on forest roads in the Oregon Coast Range to examine the relationship between sediment production and road attributes such as distance between culverts, road slope, soil texture, and cutslope height. An additional c...

Abstract Background Equine small intestinal resection and anastomosis is a procedure where optimizing speed, without compromising integrity, advantageous. There are range of different needle holders available, but little published on the impact surgical instrumentation has technique in veterinary medicine. The objectives this study were to investigate if holder type influences construction time...

A simulation study was used to examine the consequences of karyotypic rearrangements on molecular genetic map construction. Two groups of 50 datasets were created for F2 populations segregating for a reciprocal translocation of chromosomal segments or a reciprocal translocation and inversion. Multiple attempts were made to construct maps for each dataset using MapMaker/EXP. As expected, the mar...

the genome of iranian wheat stripe virus (iwsv), a tentative member of the genus tenuivirus, is comprised of three ambisense and one negative sense rna segments. the coat and non-structural proteins encoded by the vcrna3 and vrna4 genes, respectively, were efficiently translated in vitro. translated proteins of vcrna3 and vrna4 transcripts were approximately 35000 and 22000 in mr, respectively,...