Notes on structural distinctions in Malay dialects

Structural analysis of dialects, sub-dialects and sub-sub-dialects of Chinese

In China, there are hundred kinds of dialects. By traditional dialectology, they are classified into seven big dialect regions and most of them also have many sub-dialects and sub-subdialects. As they are different in various linguistic aspects, people from different dialect regions often cannot communicate orally. But for the sub-dialects of one dialect region, although they are sometimes stil...

Some Notes on Behavior in Structural Computing

Behavior has only recently received the attention of structural computing research. Thus, the exact relation of behavior to structure is to a large extent unspecified. Current structural computing research still views behavior as something that is orthogonal to structure: something that has to be added on top of it. In this paper, we attempt to create a framework to discuss the notions of struc...

Lecture Notes on Structural Vector Autoregressions

• Macroeconomic background – Sims (1980) – Stock and Watson (1988) • Vector Autoregressions 1. Stationarity vs. nonstationarity 2. Structural models 3. Dynamic experiments 4. Estimation – Lütkepohl (1991), chapter 2 – Hamilton (1994), chapter 11 – Sims (1980) – Cooley and LeRoy (1985) – Runkle (1987) • Cointegration and Common Trends – Johansen and Juselius (1990) – King, Plosser, Stock, and Wa...

Notes on Lactuca saligna in Iran

In the identification process of weed materials available in "IRAN" herbarium, a specimen belonging to the genus Lactuca (Asteraceae) had the following characteristics: Plant annual, many stemmed from base; stem erect-slightly procumbent, slender, glabrous, whitish and leafy. Basal leaves dried; stem leaves ca. 7 × 0.5 cm, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, entire at margin, sessile, auriculate, auri...

Structural Policy Country Notes