In the past few years, we have witnessed a tremendous growth of the World Wide Web, both in terms of number of Web pages accessible online – resulting in what represents today the largest publicly available corpus, and in terms of number of Web users – who now form the world’s largest pool of knowledge. The growth of the Web on these two main dimensions – pages and users – has opened the doors ...

This paper examines the creation of women-only organizational spaces as a diversity practice and assesses their potential to facilitate workforce inclusion religious women from gender-conservative groups. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in two ultra-Orthodox-Jewish colleges Israel interviews with students staff, we demonstrate how this constitutes three types liminality—spatial, social, epistem...

introduction: in the kindling-induced seizure model, low and repeated electrical or chemical stimulations, can elevate the neural network excitability and induce epileptiform seizures. opioid receptors are widely distributed in different areas of the brain. on the other hand, morphine has paradoxical effects and induces elevation or alleviation of the pain sensation and excitability, at differe...

The 1990's have been deluged with a discourse about globalization. We are told by virtually everyone that we are now living, and for the first time, in an era of globalization. We are told that globalization has changed everything: the sovereignty of states has declined; everyone's ability to resist the rules of the market has disappeared; our possibility of cultural autonomy has been virtually...

While there has been much research into using selectional preferences for word sense disambiguation (WSD), much difficulty has been encountered. To facilitate study into this difficulty and aid in WSD in general, a database of the selectional preferences of non-pertainym prenomial adjectives extracted from the Google Web 1T 5-gram Corpus is proposed. A variety of methods for computing the prefe...