Interpretive constraints on anaphors in intensional complements suggest that de re LFs can’t yield de se truth conditions and, in fact, generate anti-de se inferences in the pragmatics.

abstract     the major constraints of agricultural production in the south western coastal areas of bangladesh are soil and water salinity of varying degrees, lack of fresh water for irrigation, slow soil drying pattern which are being augmented further due to climate change, requires suitable options of farming systems and component technologies. the major constraints and potentials of agricul...

This paper presents work on developing a software system for predicting crop yield from climate and plantation data. At the core of this system is a method for unsupervised partitioning of data for finding spatio-temporal patterns in climate data using kernel methods which offer strength to deal with complex data. For this purpose, a robust weighted kernel k-means algorithm incorporating spatia...

This paper deals with lexical acquisition. We take another look at some experiments we have recently carried out on the automatic acquisition of lexical resources from French corpora. We describe the architecture of our system for lexical acquisition. We formulate the hypothesis that some of the limitations of the current system are mainly due to a poor representation of the constraints used. F...

In model identification, calibration or sensitivity analysis, the model-parameter values may be required to yield model-output values that satisfy specified constraints, for given initial conditions and forcing. Inequality constraints on scalar functions of the model outputs (henceforth called output bounds) confine the parameters to their feasible set. Output bounds are fundamental to regional...

We impose in the nonsymmetric gravitational theory, by means of Lagrange multiplier fields in the action, a set of covariant constraints on the antisymmetric tensor field. The canonical Hamiltonian constraints in the weak field approximation for the antisymmetric sector yield a Hamiltonian energy bounded from below. An analysis of the Cauchy evolution, in terms of an expansion of the antisymmet...

This paper re-investigates a lexical acquisition system initially developed for French. We show that, interestingly, the architecture of the system reproduces and implements the main components of Optimality Theory. However, we formulate the hypothesis that some of its limitations are mainly due to a poor representation of the constraints used. Finally, we show how a better representation of th...

We analyse how inheritance of synchronization constraints should be supported. The conclusion of our analysis is that inheritance of synchronization constraints should take the form of incrementally more restrictive constraints for derived subclasses. Our conclusion is based on the view that combinations of behavior in object-oriented languages yield subclasses that extend superclass behavior. ...

Consider a first-price sealed-bid auction where participants have affiliated valuations and private budget constraints; that is, bidders have private multidimensional types. This article investigates the existence and nature of monotone equilibria in this setting. Hard budget constraints introduce two competing effects on bidding. The direct effect depresses bids as participants hit their spend...

We address the performance optimization problem in a single-station multiclass queueing network with changeover times by means of the achievable region approach. This approach seeks to obtain performance bounds and scheduling policies from the solution of a mathematical program over a relaxation of the system’s performance region. Relaxed formulations (including linear, convex, nonconvex and po...