The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences.…

Cette étude porte sur la distance parcourue pour commettre un crime à Gatineau en 2006. Peu d’études canadiennes récentes ont porté sur le sujet. De plus, il existe un vide de connaissances sur la mobilité des délinquants dans les petites…

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In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…

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In this article we develop a measure to approximate the diffusion of product-embodied R&amp;D that takes place by means of the intermediate purchases of KIBS in 19 of the EU27 countries over the period 2000-2005. The results obtained confirm a…

Thrombocytopenia, which is defined as platelet count below 150x 109/L , is the second most commonly encountered hematologic abnormality during pregnancy following anemia. When the etiology of pregnancy-specific isolated thrombocytopenia is examined, it is seen that most common reason is…

We comment on subsethood measure defined by Kosko and Young and give some new aspects of these measures. Finally we would like to discard the entropy subsethood relationship established by the authirs. We present some properties of subsethood measure from…

Abstract Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare abnormality in which one thyroid lobe with or without isthmus fails to develop. It is usually found incidentally in patients who are evaluated for some other disease. Thyroid scintigraphy with Tc-99m pertechnetate and ultrasonography…

Swyer syndrome is a kind of gonadal dysgenesis characterized by a female phenotype and 46 XY karyotype. Bilateral dysgenetic gonads have a high potential for malignancy. A 16-years-old female was presented to our hospital with  primary amenorrhea. Pelvic ultrasound revealed…