Impaired verbal comprehension of quantifiers in corticobasal syndrome.

Objective: Patients with Corticobasal Syndrome (CBS) have atrophy in posterior parietal cortex. This region of atrophy has been previously linked with quantifier comprehension difficulty, but previous studies employed visual stimuli, making it difficult to account for potentially confounding visuospatial deficits in CBS patients. The current study evaluated comprehension of generalized quantifiers using strictly verbal materials. Method: Non-aphasic CBS patients, a brain-damaged control group (consisting of patients with Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia), and age-matched healthy controls participated in this study. We assessed familiar temporal, spatial, and monetary domains of verbal knowledge comparatively. Judgment accuracy was only evaluated in statements for which patients demonstrated accurate factual knowledge about the target domain. Results: We found that patients with CBS are significantly impaired in their ability to evaluate quantifiers when compared to healthy seniors and a brain-damaged control group, even in this strictly verbal task. This impairment was seen in the vast majority of individual CBS patients. Conclusions: These findings offer additional evidence of quantifier impairment in CBS patients and emphasize that this impairment cannot be attributed to potential visuo spatial processing impairments in patients with parietal disease. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

On the formalization and reuse of scientific research

The reuse of scientific knowledge obtained from one investigation in another investigation is basic to the advance of science. Scientific investigations should therefore be recorded in ways that promote the reuse of the knowledge they generate. The use of logical formalisms to describe scientific knowledge has potential advantages in facilitating such reuse. Here, we propose a formal framework for using logical formalisms to promote reuse. We demonstrate the utility of this framework by using it in a worked example from biology: demonstrating cycles of investigation formalization [F] and reuse [R] to generate new knowledge. We first used logic to formally describe a Robot scientist investigation into yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) functional genomics [f₁]. With Robot scientists, unlike human scientists, the production of comprehensive metadata about their investigations is a natural by-product of the way they work. We then demonstrated how this formalism enabled the reuse of the research in investigating yeast phenotypes [r₁ = R(f₁)]. This investigation found that the removal of non-essential enzymes generally resulted in enhanced growth. The phenotype investigation was then formally described using the same logical formalism as the functional genomics investigation [f₂ = F(r₁)]. We then demonstrated how this formalism enabled the reuse of the phenotype investigation to investigate yeast systems-biology modelling [r₂ = R(f₂)]. This investigation found that yeast flux-balance analysis models fail to predict the observed changes in growth. Finally, the systems biology investigation was formalized for reuse in future investigations [f₃ = F(r₂)]. These cycles of reuse are a model for the general reuse of scientific knowledge.     

A semantic analysis approach for assessing professionalism using free-form text entered online

This paper presents the results of an experimental study to measure professionalism for the purpose of assessing a professional development program. Soft skills such as professionalism are increasingly recognized as important, yet measuring and assessing these skills, typically best acquired experientially, has remained challenging. Following established research, we conceptualize professionalism as a construct with the dimensions of autonomy, commitment, belief in public service, self-regulation, and the use of a professional organization as a major referent. We demonstrate how these dimensions can be expressed and the professionalism of free-form text responses measured. These responses are reflections submitted online by participants in a professional development program for undergraduate business majors known as the Management Achievement Program (MAP). Latent semantic analysis is employed to measure the professionalism of these responses and to assess MAP along each of the five dimensions. The method demonstrated in this paper has several advantages over existing methods for assessment, which can be costly, require considerable time and training, and are often tied to subjective interpretation. The method demonstrated here is suitable for replication that leads to continuous improvement by “closing the loop.”     

服装标识对人体舒适性的影响因素分析

通过对服装标识及其引起人体不适性的现状进行概述和分析,进而对服装标识影响人体舒适性的相关因素分物理和化学两个方面进行分析和探讨,并推出服装标识影响人体舒适性因素的相关函数关系组,期望对服装标识不适性问题的解决提供理论参考.     

基于多元尺度法的女装造型感性语意评价

以常见女上装为研究对象,采用多元尺度法对女装造型的感性语意进行研究,得到8对具有代表性的且消费者易于感知的女装造型感性语意,为女装的造型评价和设计提供基础。     

Feature‐Based Relation Classification Using Quantified Relatedness Information

Feature selection is very important for feature‐based relation classification tasks. While most of the existing works on feature selection rely on linguistic information acquired using parsers, this letter proposes new features, including probabilistic and semantic relatedness features, to manifest the relatedness between patterns and certain relation types in an explicit way. The impact of each feature set is evaluated using both a chisquare estimator and a performance evaluation. The experiments show that the impact of relatedness features is superior to existing well‐known linguistic features, and the contribution of relatedness features cannot be substituted using other normally used linguistic feature sets.     

论交际翻译与语义翻译在商贸信函翻译中的应用

纽马克的最大贡献在于他对交际翻译和语义翻译作了详尽的论述。着眼于纽马克的交际翻译和语义翻译,结合商贸信函语言本身的特点和风格,对其翻译特点进行了分析。     

Doping front migration in intrinsically conductive polymers and its application

Doping front migration is a recently discovered effect occurring in sandwich structures composed of intrinsically conductive polymers. A system based on chemical or electrochemical doping is capable of controlling an integrated display and modifying the electrical resistance of the conductive polymer. The effect does not require a battery and is capable of monitoring time and temperature exposure. Low-cost devices using doping front migration could be the basis of a new class of smart labels for applications such as electronic “best before” labels on food and drink.     

欧洲中世纪书籍装帧的设计语义

设计语义是研究设计语言的意义的学问.研究中世纪书籍装帧中的设计语义,有助于了解这种形成于被认为是黑暗的、毫无人性化的时代中形成的书籍装帧形式为什么可以在印刷时代被继续沿用,并从中获得启发.