It is now well understood that language use shapes the acoustic delivery of phonological patterns. One common example of this type of language change-under-use is metathesis, which is the reversal of the expected linear ordering of sounds. The gradual transformation of the Spanish word chipotle to chipolte in the United States is an example of metathetic change. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) is an...

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of norbornene (NB) and its derivatives N-adamantyl-exoendo-norbornene-5,6-dicarboximide (AdNDI) and N-cyclohexyl-exo-endo-norbornene-5,6-dicarboximide (CyNDI) in the presence of cis-1,4-dichloro-2-butene (2a) and cis-1,2-dichloro-ethylene (2b) as chain transfer agents (CTAs) using a [1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-4,5-dihydroimidazolilydene] (PCy3)C...

Transport of Bose-Einstein condensates in magnetic microtraps, controllable by external parameters such as wire currents or radio-frequency fields, is studied within the framework of optimal control theory (OCT). We derive from the Gross–Pitaevskii equation the optimality system for the OCT fields that allow to efficiently channel the condensate between given initial and desired states. For a v...

This paper develops optimal gender assignment theory, an approach to gender assignment couched within the formalism of Optimality Theory [Prince, Alan, Smolensky, Paul, 1993. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction inGenerative Grammar. Rutgers University andUniversity of Colorado, Boulder] and drawing on Steinmetz’ [Steinmetz, Donald, 1985. Gender in German and Icelandic: inanimate nouns. In...

In this paper we investigate some questions about coordination and interpretation which have been addressed by bidirectional Optimality Theory (Bi–OT). We consider examples from anaphora resolution, and there especially the role of epistemic contexts and expectations. We look at communicative acts as joint projects following H.H. Clark (1996) and model them by using multi–agent systems with joi...