Forty-eight families with children less than 13 years old attending a paediatric diabetic clinic volunteered for a 2-year randomized crossover trial to determine whether an informal education programme (diabetic club) could improve diabetic control. Group A attended the diabetic club for 10 afternoons of informal education in the first year, while Group B continued at the routine clinic (5 visits per year). For the second year Group A returned to the clinic, Group B attended the club. Glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1) remained stable while attending the club but rose significantly (p less than 0.01) while attending the clinic in both groups (HbA1 at baseline, 1 year, and 2 years: Group A, 9.6 (SD 1.2), 9.6(1.4), 10.7(2.1)%; Group B 8.9(1.3), 10.4(1.4), 10.5(1.4)% (normal reference range 4.7-7.9%)). Other indices of control were unchanged. Diabetic problem-solving scores of parents improved (p less than 0.01) but their knowledge of diabetes did not correlate with their child's HbA1. Dietary intake showed a reduction in percentage of energy taken as fat (40% vs 37.7%, p less than 0.05) during club attendance. The percentage of parents reporting helpful social contact between families increased during their club year (Group A 50 to 78%, Group B 32 to 57%, p less than 0.001). Psychological measurements remained unchanged. An education programme for diabetic children may stabilize diabetic control in the short term but this effect is not sustained. The main benefit was the support provided by increased social contact with families of other diabetic children within the informal framework of the diabetic club.
We present a notation for the declarative statement of morphological relationships and lexieal rules, based on the traditional notion of Word and Paradigm (cf Hockett 1954). The phenomenon of blocking arises from a generalized version of Kiparsky's (1973) Elsewhere Condition, stated in terms of ordering by subsumption over paradigms. Orthographic constraints on morphemic alternation are described by means of string equations (Siekmann 1975). We indicate some criticisms to be made of our approach from both linguistic and computational perspectives and relate our approach to others such as Finite-State Morphology (Koskenniemi 1983), DATR (Gazdar and Evans 1989) and object-oriented morphophonemics (de Smedt 1984, Daelemans 1988). Finally, we discuss the questions of whether a system involving string equations allows a reduction to finite-state techniques. 2 Components of the Model 2.1 String Equations and String Unification This introduction is based on Siekmann (1975). A string a is a sequence of elements drawn from a finite alphabet C combined by the associative operator +, representing the concatenation of strings.
We present an algorithm for the generation of sentences from the semantic representations of Unification Categorial Grammar. We discuss a variant of Shieber's semantic monotonicity requirement and its utility in our algorithm. We indicate how the algorithm may be extended to other grammars obeying the same requirement. Appendices contain a full listing of the program and a trace of execution of the algorithm.
Abst_~'act ~hrlication Categorial Gtmmnar (t/:G) combines the syntactic iu.,;ights of Categoria[ Grammar with the semantic insights of I)i;course Representation Theory. The addition of uni/ication to these two frameworks allows a simple account of intexaction be,.wcen different linguistic levels within a constraining, monostraml theory. The resulting, computationaUy efticient, system provides an explicit formal framework for linguistic description, widfin which large fi'agments of grammms for French aud English have ah'eady been developed. We present the formai basis of UCG, with i.dependent definitions of well-. toxmedness fol syntactic and semantic dimensions. We will also
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