In a number of manufacturing applications, parts of circular cross-section must be centered for optimal processing or measurement. However, part form is never perfect, making accurate determination of the “centered” state of a part difficult. Imperfect inputs to the manufacturing process such as roughprocessed parts, deformation due to heat treatment, or raw formed materials present difficulty ...

This chapter explores the correlation between centering and different forms of pronominal reference in Italian, in particular zeros and overt pronouns in subject position. In previous work (Di Eugenio, 1990), I proposed that such alternation could be explained in terms of centering transitions. In this chapter, I verify those hypotheses by means of a small corpus of naturally occurring data. In...

Centering theory posits a discourse center, a distinguished discourse entity that is the topic of a discourse. A simplified version of this theory is developed in a Dynamic Semantics framework. In the resulting system, the mechanism of center shift allows a simple, elegant analysis of a variety of phenomena involving sloppy identity in ellipsis and “paycheck pronouns”.

self-centering pier (scp) has been viewed as a remarkable accomplishment which is able to sustain major lateral loading with reduced structure damage in seismic engineering. stiffness deterioration observed in experiment is vital for the seismic performance of self-centering concrete pier. in this contribution, the associated stiffness deterioration with respect to the structural damage is mode...

Data matrix centering is an ever-present yet under-examined aspect of data analysis. Functional analysis (FDA) often operates with a default such that the vectors in one dimension have mean zero. We find along other identifies novel useful mode variation beyond those familiar FDA. explore ambiguities both orientation and nomenclature. Differences between centerings their potential interaction c...

Increasingly, environmental sustainability-governance research investigates procedural justice, which is focused on fairness, discrimination, and inclusion in decision-making. To understand the (re)production of inequity injustice, we must examine who included excluded, what types knowledge information are incorporated, how more inclusive processes may (not) facilitate transformation governance...

This paper builds on recent research investigating sentence ordering in text production by evaluating the Centering-based metrics of coherence employed by Karamanis et al. (2004) using the data of Barzilay and Lapata (2005). This is the first time that Centering is evaluated empirically as a sentence ordering constraint in several domains, verifying the results reported in Karamanis et al.

A central claim of centering theory (Grosz, Joshi, and Weinstein, 1995, henceforth GJW) is that certain entities mentioned in an utterance are more central than others, and that this property imposes constraints on a speaker’s use of different types of expressions to refer to them. To articulate some of these constraints, they define several fundamental centering concepts and propose rules base...

Inequalities for martingales with bounded differences have recently proved to be very useful in combinatorics and in the mathematics of operational research and computer science. We see here that these inequalities extend in a natural way to ’centering sequences’ with bounded differences, and thus include for example better inequalities for sequences related to sampling without replacement. 1 C...