scholarly journals An underspecification approach to Hausa resumption

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthold Crysmann
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Local Features ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
Pronoun Use ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Unbounded Dependency ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Treat All

Within recent work on the treatment of resumption in HPSG, there is growing consensus that resumptive unbounded dependency constructions (=UDCs) should be modelled on a par with gap-type UDCs (Alotaibi and Borsley, 2013; Borsley, 2010; Crysmann, 2012b; Taghvaipour, 2005), using a single feature for both types of dependencies, rather than separate features, as proposed by Vaillette (2001a,b). Yet, authors disagree as to where exactly in the grammar the resumptive function of pronominals should be established: while Crysmann (2012b, 2015) advances an ambiguity approach that has pronominal synsem objects being ambiguous between a resumptive and an ordinary pronoun use, Borsley (2010); Alotaibi and Borsley (2013), by contrast, treat all pronominals, resumptive or not, as ordinary pronouns and effect their resumptive use by means of tailoring the amalgamation principle to potentially include pronominal indices. While their decision provides a straightforward account of McCloskey’s generalisation that resumptives always look like the ordinary pronouns of the language, it fails to capture the difference in semantics between ordinary pronominal and resumptive uses. In this paper, I shall reexamine the evidence from Hausa and propose to synthesise the approaches put forth by Alotaibi and Borsley (2013) and Crysmann (2012b), and propose that the potential for pronominal and resumptive function (including their difference w.r.t. semantics and non-local features) is captured by means of underspecification, yet the decision as to canonical vs. non-canonical use is made at the level of the governing head (Borsley, 2010; Alotaibi and Borsley, 2013). I shall argue that this division of labour is sufficient to derive the correct gap-like semantics for resumptives, maintains standard deterministic amalgamation, and, finally, provides an answer to McCloskey’s generalisation.

scholarly journals Urgent Matter

Konturen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Jonathan Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
German American ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Disciplinary Cultures ◽  
General Economy

Opening questions about “things” onto the bureaucratically-maintained, compartmentalized discursive, disciplinary claims of “philosophy,” “theory,” and “poetry,” “Urgent Matter” explores these three terms in relation to one another through attention to recent work by Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancière, the German-American poet Rosmarie Waldrop, and the German poet Ulf Stolterfoht, whose fachsprachen. Gedichte. I-IX (Lingos I-IX. Poems) Waldrop rendered into English in an award-winning translation. The difference between the "things" called "poetry" and "philosophy," as now institutionalized within the academy, is not epistemological, ontological, ahistorical, but a matter of linguistic domains, of so-called concrete "images" as the policed domain of the former and of "abstraction" as the policed domain of the latter. Challenging the binary logics that dominate language use in diverse discursive/disciplinary cultures, Waldrop’s linguistically self-referential, appositional procedures develop ways to use language that are neither linear, nor so much without direction, as multi-directional, offering complexes of adjacency, of asides, of digression, of errancy, of being “alongside,” in lieu of being “opposed to,” that constitute at once a poetics, an aesthetics, an ethics, and a politics. Elaborating a complementary understanding of poetry as “the most philosophic of all writing,” a medium of being “contemporary,” Waldrop and Stolterfoht question poetry’s purposes as one kind of language apparatus among others in the general economy. Whatever poetry might be, it aspires to be in their hands not a thing in itself but a form of self-questioning, of all discourses, all disciplines, that “thing” that binds “poetry” and “philosophy” together, as urgent matter, in continuing.

scholarly journals VIII—Propositions and Cognitive Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas K Jones
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Natural Language Semantics ◽  
True Nature ◽  
First Order ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Language Semantics ◽  
Ontological Categories ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Semantic Types

Abstract There are two broad approaches to theorizing about ontological categories. Quineans use first-order quantifiers to generalize over entities of each category, whereas type theorists use quantification on variables of different semantic types to generalize over different categories. Does anything of import turn on the difference between these approaches? If so, are there good reasons to go type-theoretic? I argue for positive answers to both questions concerning the category of propositions. I also discuss two prominent arguments for a Quinean conception of propositions, concerning their role in natural language semantics and apparent quantification over propositions within natural language. It will emerge that even if these arguments are sound, there need be no deep question about Quinean propositions’ true nature, contrary to much recent work on the metaphysics of propositions.

scholarly journals PM2.5 Concentration Estimation Based on Image Processing Schemes and Simple Linear Regression

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiun-Jian Liaw ◽  
Yung-Fa Huang ◽  
Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh ◽  
Dung-Ching Lin ◽  
Chin-Hsiang Luo
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Linear Regression Model ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Simple Linear Regression Model ◽  
Concentration Estimation ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Pm2.5 Concentration

Fine aerosols with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) have a significant negative impact on human health. However, their measurement devices or instruments are usually expensive and complicated operations are required, so a simple and effective way for measuring the PM2.5 concentration is needed. To relieve this problem, this paper attempts to provide an easy alternative approach to PM2.5 concentration estimation. The proposed approach is based on image processing schemes and a simple linear regression model. It uses images with a high and low PM2.5 concentration to obtain the difference between these images. The difference is applied to find the region with the greatest impact. The approach is described in two stages. First, a series of image processing schemes are employed to automatically select the region of interest (RoI) for PM2.5 concentration estimation. Through the selected RoI, a single feature is obtained. Second, by employing the single feature, a simple linear regression model is used and applied to PM2.5 concentration estimation. The proposed approach is verified by the real-world open data released by Taiwan’s government. The proposed scheme is not expected to replace component analysis using physical or chemical techniques. We have tried to provide a cheaper and easier way to conduct PM2.5 estimation with an acceptable performance more efficiently. To achieve this, further work will be conducted and is summarized at the end of this paper.

scholarly journals Does the Firm Make the Difference? The Influence of Organizational Family-Friendly Arrangements on the Duration of Employment Interruptions after Childbirth

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 798-813
Author(s):  
Ann-Christin Bächmann ◽  
Corinna Frodermann ◽  
Dana Müller
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Piecewise Constant ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Time Specific ◽  
Employee Data

Abstract Despite the increase in dual-earner couples in Germany over recent decades, starting a family still often leads to a (re-)traditionalization of the division of labour in partnerships, with considerable gender differences in working hours and family obligations remaining. Consequently, after a child is born especially women face the challenge of reconciling career and family. Against this backdrop, a growing proportion of firms has started to create family-friendly working conditions to relieve the burden on their (female) employees. In the course of doing so, firms have also increasingly invested in organizational family-friendly arrangements in recent years. In this article, we analyse the effects of these arrangements on employees’ behaviour by using German-linked employer–employee data. We ask how specific organizational family-friendly measures affect a crucial point in women’s careers: the employment interruption after childbirth. Based on time-specific piecewise constant models, our results reveal that organizational family-friendly measures positively influence women’s return to the labour market after childbirth and thus result in benefits for both firms and employees. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the measures are determined by the structural context and are not time constant but vary according to the age of the child.

LNPSS: SAR image despeckling based on local and non-local features using patch shape selection and edges linking

Measurement ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 107989
Author(s):  
Ramin Ranjbarzadeh ◽  
Soroush Baseri Saadi ◽  
Amir Amirabadi
Keyword(s):  
Local Features ◽  
Sar Image ◽  
Patch Shape ◽  
Shape Selection ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Image Despeckling

scholarly journals Influence of the mode of reproduction on dispersal evolution during species invasion

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 120-134
Author(s):  
Vincent Calvez ◽  
Joachim Crevat ◽  
Léonard Dekens ◽  
Benoit Fabrèges ◽  
Frédéric Kuczma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Reproduction ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Propagation Speed ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Asexual Population ◽  
Acceleration Rate ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Dispersal Evolution

We consider a reaction-diffusion-reproduction equation, modeling a population which is spatially heterogeneous. The dispersion of each individuals is influenced by its phenotype. In the literature, the asymptotic propagation speed of an asexual population has already been rigorously determined. In this paper we focus on the difference between the asexual reproduction case, and the sexual reproduction case, involving a non-local term modeling the reproduction. This comparison leads to a different invasion speed according to the reproduction. After a formal analysis of both cases, leading to a heuristic of the asymptotic behaviour of the invasion fronts, we give some numerical evidence that the acceleration rate of the spatial spreading of a sexual population is slower than the acceleration rate of an asexual one. The main difficulty to get sharper results on a transient comes from the non-local sexual reproduction term.

Pasternak effect on the buckling of embedded single-walled carbon nanotubes using non-local cylindrical shell theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 225 (12) ◽  
pp. 3045-3059 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Ghorbanpour Arani ◽  
M Mohammadimehr ◽  
A R Saidi ◽  
A Arefmanesh ◽  
Q Han
Keyword(s):  
Cylindrical Shell ◽  
Shell Theory ◽  
Buckling Load ◽  
Spring Constant ◽  
Single Walled Carbon Nanotube ◽  
Critical Buckling Load ◽  
Single Walled Carbon ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Walled Carbon Nanotubes

In this article, the buckling analysis of a single-walled carbon nanotube using the non-local cylindrical shell theory under general loading embedded on the Winkler- and Pasternak-type foundations is presented. The effect of the surrounding elastic medium such as the Winkler-type spring constant and the Pasternak-type shear constant is taken into account in the present formulations. The non-local and local critical buckling loads are obtained under general loading such as the axial compression, lateral pressure, and torsional loading, and it is concluded from the results that the non-local critical buckling load under general loading is lower than the local critical buckling load. It is seen that the Winkler-type spring constant and Pasternak-type shear constant increase the non-local critical buckling load under general loading, therefore the difference between the presence and the absence of the Pasternak-type shear constant is large.

scholarly journals Notes

1933 ◽  
Vol 112 (779) ◽  
pp. 477-479
Keyword(s):  
Osmotic Pressure ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Living Cell ◽  
Biological Theory ◽  
Freezing Point ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
Hen’S Egg ◽  
Chemical Complex ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many

Recent work on the osmotic pressure of the hen’s egg has introduced a sense of uncertainty as to the value of the many comparisons which have been made between osmotic pressures of the blood, body fluids, and surrounding media. The uncertainty pertains not to theory but to a simple matter of fact and, as this involves that most fundamental datum for biological theory—viz., the state of the water in the living cell—there is urgent need to have it cleared up. The fact in dispute is the freezing point of the yolk and white of the bird’s egg. Atkins in 1909 by measurements, obviously made with the greatest care, found “no difference between the freezing point of white and yolk of the same egg and a mixture of white and yolk gave the same depression.” Atkins (1909) used the ordinary Beckmann technique and so, too, did Straub (1929) twenty years later, but with a surprisingly different result for he found a constant difference between white and yolk of the hen’s egg amounting on the average to —0·15° C. A. V. Hill (1930) confirmed Straub’s (1929) finding by a different method. He compared the fall in temperature caused by evaporation with that of water and from the difference calculated the osmotic pressure. Howard (1932) using the Beckmann method again found no difference in the freezing point of white and yolk. In these measurements the yolk was puddled by stirring so that at sometime or another the structure was broken down. Yolk is not only a chemical complex but it is alive, gross mechanical disturbance might, therefore, have the effect it usually has on living cells and cause chemical breakdown with consequent fall of the freezing point. Hale’s experiments were designed to explore this possibility by observing directly the freezing point of intact yolk and white.

ON DIMENSION OF NON-LOCAL BIFURCATIONAL PROBLEMS

1996 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
pp. 919-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. TURAEV
Keyword(s):  
Lyapunov Exponents ◽  
Center Manifold ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
Lyapunov Dimension ◽  
Stable And Unstable Manifolds ◽  
Local Bifurcations ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Unstable Manifolds ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Manifold Theory

An analogue of the center manifold theory is proposed for non-local bifurcations of homo- and heteroclinic contours. In contrast with the local bifurcation theory it is shown that the dimension of non-local bifurcational problems is determined by the three different integers: the geometrical dimension dg which is equal to the dimension of a non-local analogue of the center manifold, the critical dimension dc which is equal to the difference between the dimension of phase space and the sum of dimensions of leaves of associated strong-stable and strong-unstable foliations, and the Lyapunov dimension dL which is equal to the maximal possible number of zero Lyapunov exponents for the orbits arising at the bifurcation. For a wide class of bifurcational problems (the so-called semi-local bifurcations) these three values are shown to be effectively computed. For the orbits arising at the bifurcations, effective restrictions for the maximal and minimal numbers of positive and negative Lyapunov exponents (correspondingly, for the maximal and minimal possible dimensions of the stable and unstable manifolds) are obtained, involving the values dc and dL. A connection with the problem of hyperchaos is discussed.

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