This paper argues, in an attempt at a unified account of negative polarity and free choice phenomena expressed by amu /any or wh-indefinites in Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese that the notion of concession by arbitrary or d isjunctive choice (based on indefiniteness) is crucial. With this central notion all the apparently diverse polarityrelated phenomena can be explained consistently, n...

In the course of a negotiation it is often the case that the participants exchange packages of offers, which have, at least in the mind of the negotiators, a certain utility for them. We want to test whether the behaviour of the negotiators is reflected in the topology of the concession curve that plots each offer’s utility value in the course of a negotiation. In order to do this, we use data ...

The article is devoted to the study of participation Western European merchants in concession export trade Russia reign Peter I. Concession as a way solving financial problems was often used and customs policy 17th–18th centuries. Having ascended throne, I continued actively use form foreign country. Stateowned goods were transferred concession: caviar, rhubarb, flax, bristles, sheep wool, timb...

Much research has suggested that facial identification has some characteristics of automaticity, in that it is rapid, nonconscious, and mandatory. However, little research has tested whether it can occur even if attention is already devoted to the demanding central processes of another task. In the present study, we addressed this type of automaticity using the psychological refractory period p...

For d ≥ 2, we construct a doubling measure ν on Rd and a rectifiable curve Γ such that ν(Γ) > 0.

Two psychological refractory period (PRP) experiments were conducted to examine overlapping processing in younger and older adults. A shape discrimination task (triangle or rectangle) for Task 1 (T1) and a lexical-decision task (word or nonword) for Task 2 (T2) were used. PRP effects, response time for T2 increasing as stimulus onset synchrony (SOA) decreased, were obtained for both age groups....

Private participation in road projects is increasing around the world. The most popular franchising mechanism is a concession contract, which allows a private firm to charge tolls to road users during a pre-determined period in order to recover its investments. Concessionaires are usually selected through auctions at which candidates submit bids for tolls, payments to the government, or minimum...