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.

The use of micro-organisms and their products as possible therapeutic agents in the control of cancer had its beginning in the latter part of the nineteenth century, coinciding with the embryonic achievements of the science of bacteriology. The rapid advances in the field of antibiotics during the past 12 years have inspired new hope that the search among biological systems will disclose a chem...

The number of diseases affecting mango in Florida is relatively small but can seriously limit production if not adequately controlled. This fact sheet concentrates on the symptoms of the important mango diseases, the weather conditions conducive to disease development, and methods for control. Due to frequent changes in the availability and use restrictions for agricultural chemicals, consult t...

The strange perception that XML is the panacea for system interoperability, or even information representation, is seriously affecting how systems are being designed and specified. I believe it is encumbent upon those of us who understand and are experienced in the domain of information representation and processing to try to explain the issues to those less experienced. Otherwise, the hype sur...

Metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitutes a heterogeneous group of diseases with systemic treatment options limited to cytotoxic chemotherapy at the time being. The disease tends to affect visceral organs more frequently when compared to hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. The prognoses of patients with heavily pretreated disease affecting the liver are very dismal. We pr...