Comprehension of filler-gap dependency relations (as in this is the man who the woman is touching) is supported by Broca's area. There are two views regarding the processing role of this brain region in comprehending these dependencies. Specifists hold that Broca's area plays a specific syntactic role in processing filler-gaps. Generalists maintain that as the on-line linking of fillers and gap...

Recent experimental observations show that gap colonization in small-stature (e.g. grassland and dwarf shrubs) vegetation strongly depends on the abiotic conditions within them. At the same time, within-gap variation in biotic interactions such as competition and facilitation, caused by distance to the gap edge, would affect colonizer performance, but a theoretical framework to explore such pat...

We introduce the discrete Fréchet gap and its variants as an alternative measure of similarity between polygonal curves. We believe that for some applications the new measure (and its variants) may better reflect our intuitive notion of similarity than the discrete Fréchet distance (and its variants), since the latter measure is indifferent to (matched) pairs of points that are relatively close...

The effects of locking screw position (long column fixation--long distance between the nearest screws to the fracture--and short column fixation--short distance between the nearest screws to the fracture) and fracture gap size (1-mm and 8-mm transverse fracture gap) on stiffness and fatigue of fractured femur fixed with a locking compression plate (LCP) were biomechanically evaluated. The stiff...

We calculated propagation constants of supermodes for two-dimensional two-slab waveguides, with small core gap, using secondorder perturbation expansion from gapless slab waveguide system, and compared our results with the existing works. In the perturbation calculation, we used trapezoidal method to calculate the integral over the transverse direction in space and obtained second-order expansi...

the central alborz mountains of northern iran (figure 1) is a zone of intense active continental deformation and is the most heavily populated region of iran, including the mega-city of tehran with a population of over 10 million. the region is affected by numerous active faults, some of them having great seismic potential, and documented historical seismicity. hence, the central alborz is a pr...

A real time image-guided electroplating system is proposed in this paper. Unlike previous electroplating systems, instead of using the intermittent mode to electroplate 500um long copper specimen, a CCD camera and a motion controller are used to adjust anode-cathode distance to obtain better results. Since the image of the gap distance is highly deteriorated due to complex chemical-electrical o...

Whether the distance between the filler and the gap increases or decreases the difficulty for comprehenders has always been subject to debate. Locality theory claims that the greater the distance between the filler and the gap, the more difficult it is. However, anti-locality theory predicts that the greater the distance, the easier it is. This study examined whether it was the position of the ...

One of the most pervasive properties of human language is the existence of dependencies: necessary relationships that hold between two elements in a sentence. The primary objects of study in this volume are long-distance “fillergap” dependencies – a special subset of dependencies that are not constrained by standard measures of length such as number of words or number of clauses. For example, w...

Over the last decade, distance-based methods have been introduced and then improved in the field of spatial economics to gauge the geographic concentration of activities. There is a growing literature on this theme including new tools, discussions on specific properties and various applications. However no typology of distance-based methods exists. This paper fills this gap. The proposed classi...