Mrs. Noah and Didactic Abuses

Noah A . Smith . Ellipsis Happens , and Deletion Is How NOAH

I offer an overview of recent literature on ellipsis phenomena in natural language, including the most salient empirical arguments surrounding the classification of ellipsis as a phenomenon of the Phonological Form or of the Logical Form. I show that the majority of evidence supports the view of ellipsis as PF-deletion rather than LF-copying. I then give a theoretical argument that supports thi...

Noah Snyder And

We introduce the notion of a half-ribbon Hopf algebra, which is a Hopf algebra H along with a distinguished element t ∈ H such that (H, R,C) is a ribbon Hopf algebra, where R = (t ⊗ t)∆(t) and C = t. The element t is closely related to the topological ‘half-twist’, which twists a ribbon by 180 degrees. We construct a functor from a topological category of ribbons with half-twists to the categor...

Noah Snyder : Teaching Statement

I have long enjoyed teaching, and have had a wide variety of teaching jobs over the past dozen years. I’ve worked in many different capacities at summer math programs for nine summers, I taught a sophomore tutorial at Harvard, I’ve given over 30 seminar talks at Berkeley, and I taught four sections of Calculus at U.C. Berkeley. Beyond a general interest in teaching, I have strong particular int...

Editorial Abuses

Nebulisers: uses and abuses.

Jet nebulisers are used to deliver a wide range of drugs as aerosols. The British National Formullarv lists not only six bronchodilator solutions in doses up to 10 mg (available in single dose ampoules, multidose vials, or both), but also one corticosteroid, one prophylactic agent (sodium cromoglycate), and two mucolytics as being suitable for nebulisation.' In addition, nebulisers have been us...