. On the other hand, to regain legitimacy, most states have engaged in a process of devolution of power, decentralizing responsibilities and resources to nationalities, regions, and local governments, often extending this de-centralization to non-governmental organizations. The international arena is also

This paper proposes a novel framework of incorporating protein-protein interactions (PPI) ontology knowledge into PPI extraction from biomedical literature in order to address the emerging challenges of deep natural language understanding. It is built upon the existing work on relation extraction

of the child's language background. We then discuss some issues in the language development of bilingual children. After that we turn to issues in the language assessment and propose a procedure for assessing language development in bilingual preschool children. This procedure was developed for the State

language learners never reach target-like proficiency of the new target language. In Papua New Guinea, there are many examples of fossilisation in the use of English. These non-standard fossilized forms may emerge due to the transfer of the phonetic sounds of the mother tongue. Fossilization may occur

China has the world’s largest population and a vast landmass surrounded by 14 countries. It has long borderlines and a long coastline facing the Pacific Ocean. China is also a nation with various races, religions, and languages. Most of its ethnic minorities populate the borderlands often

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ii iv vTo my parents vi vii Acknowledgements I would first and foremost extend my whole-hearted gratitude to my advisors, An-drea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. Andrea and Remzi are the reason that I had the opportunity for this exceptional Ph.D. journey. To this day, I still re-member the moment when they took me as their student and the joy and hope in my heart. Andrea and Remzi have showed me what systems research is like and how much fun and challenging it can be. Before this journey with them, I had always liked and believed in the beauty of mathematics and theory. My initial interest in systems research happened when I took Remzi’s Advanced Operating Systems

. The construction of this facility will have disastrous effects on the island’s delicate natural envi-ronment and will further subject the rights of the Okinawan people. Bullets, bombs, grenades, and fire blasts introduced Okinawa to the military power of the United States and Japan in the disastrous battles

forces (SOF) because it is profoundly different from that required to dominate in the traditional Land Domain. Conflict in this emerging domain requires exceptional situational awareness, a profound understanding of foreign culture and fluency in local languages, a high degree of proficiency in small

Obliq is lexically-scoped, untyped, interpreted language that supports distributed object -oriented computation. Obliq objects have state and are local to a site. Obliq computations can roam over the network, while maintaining network connections. Distributed lexical scoping is the key mechanism