How would you have responded if water utilities had delivered toxic products to their customers while the management drew huge salaries?Chris BaleNess, CheshireTextpert adviceSIR –"Text-messaging corrupts all languages," you say in your article on text-messaging in France ("Parlez-vous SMS?", May 24th).
SIR – Your article on texting in France has a grammatical error.TA + K ENTRER would not translate into T'as plus qu'entrer, which is grammatically incorrect in French, but rather T'as qu'a entrer.
Hannah Harlow Cambridge, Mass .Louis Menand, in his article on texting, overlooks a large portion of the world's population — those for whom having a phone at all is a luxury ("Thumbspeak," October 20th).
Edwin Battistella Professor of English Southern Oregon University Ashland, Ore .Louis Menand, in his article on texting, overlooks a large portion of the world's population — those for whom having a phone at all is a luxury ("Thumbspeak," October 20th).
Louis Menand, in his article on texting, overlooks a large portion of the world's population — those for whom having a phone at all is a luxury ("Thumbspeak," October 20th).
Yesterday, the NY Times came out with an article on texting, with physicians and psychologists saying the increased usage of SMS by teens leads to "anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation".
This article draws on text from How Bad Are Bananas?
Her spokesman told us: "I think we'll end up with new exceptions on user generated content and freedom of panorama, as well as better wording for article 3 on text and data mining.
Unlike many other review articles on text-mining systems (5 11), we limited our focus exclusively to systems that are: (i) for biomedical literature search and (ii) comparable to the PubMed system.
This table presents a quantitative evaluation of the excluded articles on full text basis i.e., how many of them were excluded according to the specific criteria.
A useful avenue for further study would be such a direct comparison between a standard based on the included studies of systematic reviews and one derived from hand searching (or, with the growth in availability of electronic full text articles, on-screen searching).
