Towards the end of the nineteenth century, quackery of all kinds was on the increase. One of the most notorious of the mountebanks was ‘Sequah’, arguably the arch-prince of charlatans, who first made his appearance in the 1890s. He is described as "the most celebrated medical operator in Britain outside the capital". Sequah started his medical career at Portsmouth in September 1887. In January ...

There is no central database that records the changing provision of prostheses in the United Kingdom. Experience suggests there have been some shifts in the population, particularly in the past decade. Because the detailed records of these changes are contained in the patients' medical records it is difficult to assess the substance of these data except on an individual basis; the larger pictur...

In cognitive robotics we look for the representation of consciousness, which is based on the ability to reproduce mental states. In this presentation we discuss the principles for consciousness reproducibility, namely representation, the resolution levels of experience and the space of experience. We conclude with a tale that is a metaphore of our mental and scientific equipment to face robotic...

Videogame play requires the negotiation of multiple synchronic points-of-view enabled through the use of cameras, avatars, interfaces, and vignettes (the cut-scenes, dialogue, and other attributes normally attributed to the “story”). Concurrent mastery of these points-of-view contributes to the game field of play and enables a greater possibility to complete the game’s goals. Using Prince of Pe...

SINCE its initial formulation by the Supreme Court in 1941,1 the doctrine of equitable abstention has been a subject of continuing controversy.2 Its application in the field of civil rights by a sharply divided Supreme Court in 19593 raised many questions, several of which are illustrated by Griffin v. Board of Supervisors. 4 In this latest decision in twelve years of litigation aimed at the in...

This article pursues the idea of inferring aspects of phonological underlying forms directly from surface contrasts by looking at optimality theoretic linguistic systems (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004). The main result proves that linguistic systems satisfying certain conditions have the faithful contrastive feature property: Whenever 2 distinct morphemes contrast on the surface in a particular...

In addition to deciding what to say, s p e a k ers must decide how t o s a y it. The central premise of studies on the relationship between syntax and discourse function is that a speaker's use of a particular structural option is constrained by s p e-ciic aspects of the context of utterance. Work in discourse has uncovered a variety of speciic discourse functions served by individual syntactic...

Prapaporn Boonme, Chalida Boonthongchuay, Thanaporn Amnuaikit and Wibul Wongpoowarak Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Nanotec-PSU Center of Excellence on Drug Delivery System, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand. Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Ha...

Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand. Received for publication: November 1, 2010. Reprint request: Sarunyou Chusri, M.D., Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand. E-mail: [email protected]

Since the creation of Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004, McCarthy and Prince 1993b/2001), it has been widely applied in various linguistic subdisciplines. OT was initially designed for phonology. Kager (1999:16) illustrates the fundamental assumptions of conventional OT with an example from Dutch (1). The symbol ‘-’ indicates a morpheme boundary and ‘.’ indicates a syllable...