This paper presents predicate-argument structure analysis (PASA) for dialogue systems in Japanese. Conventional PASA and semantic role labeling have been applied to newspaper articles. Because pronominalization and ellipses frequently appear in dialogues, we base our PASA on a strategy that simultaneously resolves zero-anaphora and adapt it to dialogues. By incorporating parameter adaptation an...

We report the intercalation and characterization of para-amino salicylic acid (PASA) into zinc/aluminum-layered double hydroxides (ZLDHs) by two methods, direct and indirect, to form nanocomposites: PASA nanocomposite prepared by a direct method (PASA-D) and PASA nanocomposite prepared by an indirect method (PASA-I). Powder X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and thermog...

A consistent finding from functional neuroimaging studies of cognitive aging is an age-related reduction in occipital activity coupled with increased frontal activity. This posterior-anterior shift in aging (PASA) has been typically attributed to functional compensation. The present functional magnetic resonance imaging sought to 1) confirm that PASA reflects the effects of aging rather than di...

Public agency strategic analysis (PASA) is different from public policy analysis because public agency executives face numerous constraints that those performing “unconstrained” policy analysis do not. It is also different from private sector strategic analysis. But because of similar constraints and realities, some generic and private sector strategic analysis techniques can be useful to those...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 491 I. THE GENESIS OF THE PROPOSED GOOGLE BOOK SETTLEMENT ............................................................................ 492 II. MIXED REACTIONS TO THE PSA ............................................ 494 III. ACADEMIC AUTHOR OBJECTIONS TO THE PASA ................ 497 A. The Authors G...

Process-aware information systems (PAIS) offer promising perspectives in this respect and are increasingly employed for operationally supporting business processes. In this paper, we describe the emergence of different process support paradigms and the lack of methods for comparing existing change approaches have made it difficult for process-aware software architecture (PASA) engineers to choo...

Septic arthritis is a clinical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment to avoid significant morbidity and mortality. Polyarticular septic arthritis (PASA) accounts for 15% of all infectious arthritides and rarely occurs in immunocompetent adults. Staphylococcus aureus is the most commonly isolated organism, with infection primarily affecting knees, shoulders, elbows, and hips. The mo...

BACKGROUND There are no unified theories as to the anatomical changes that occur with hallux valgus, we investigated the radiological characteristics and anatomical risk factors for hallux valgus deformity in Chinese adults. METHODS We reviewed 141 patients with hallux valgus (206 feet; 15 males, 126 females; mean age, 58.5 years). These patients attended Peking University People's Hospital f...

The “time projection chamber” (TPC) [1] as one of the main components of the ALICE detector has a cylindrical shape with a diameter of 5 m and a length of 5 m. It is composed of several individual TPC sectors. Altogether 570 000 read-out channels have to be equipped with electronics which requires 4500 “front-end cards” (FEC) each having 8 pre-amplification units (PASA) and 8 ALTRO chips. To im...

The posterior-anterior shift in aging (PASA) is a commonly observed phenomenon in functional neuroimaging studies of aging, characterized by age-related reductions in occipital activity alongside increases in frontal activity. In this work we have investigated the hypothesis as to whether the PASA is also manifested in functional brain network measures such as degree, clustering coefficient, pa...