Based on a description of bond valence as a function of valence electron density, a systematic bond softness sensitive approach to determine bond-valence parameters and related quantities such as coordination numbers is elaborated and applied to determine bond-valence parameters for 706 cation-anion pairs. While the approach is closely related to the earlier softBV parameter set, the new softNC...

According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people associate positive things with the side of space that corresponds to their dominant hand and negative things with the side corresponding to their nondominant hand. Our aim was to find out whether this association holds also true for a response time study using linguistic stimuli, and whether such an association is activated automatically. Fou...

We study a game in which candidates for elected office first choose platforms and then invest in costly valences. The marginal return to valence accumulation depends on the degree of platform polarization—the closer together are the platforms, the more valence affects the election outcome. Consequently, even though candidates have no policy preferences, they diverge in equilibrium to soften val...

Verb resultative complement (VC) is a common structure of Chinese language with abundant forms of collocation. It makes much sense for VC research to analyze the general rules of argument integration in light of diversities of predicate & complement and the complexity of argument integration in the forming of VC with predicate & complement. This article has analyzed and summarized the existing ...