Distribution A: Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. Approval Confirmation 96 ABW/PA # 96ABW-2010-0451, dated August 12, 2010 This paper was published in the Journal of Applied Physics, March 2011. One or more of the authors is a U.S. Government employee working within the scope of their position; therefore, the U.S. Government is joint owner of the work and has the right to cop...

This study examines the effects of English training abroad (hereafter ETA) on labor market outcomes in South Korea. ETA has become increasingly popular in many non-English speaking countries and refers to short-term language study training abroad where students spend anywhere from 6 months to 2 years taking language courses at an educational institutions. In this article, I conduct survival ana...

Thomas J. Forbes, MD,* Dennis W. Kim, MD, PHD,† Wei Du, PHD,* Daniel R. Turner, MD,*† Ralf Holzer, MD,‡ Zahid Amin, MD,¶ Ziyad Hijazi, MD,¶ Abdolrahim Ghasemi, MD,§ Jonathan J. Rome, MD, David Nykanen, MD,# Evan Zahn, MD,# Collin Cowley, MD,** Mark Hoyer, MD,†† David Waight, MD,‡‡ Daniel Gruenstein, MD,§§ Alex Javois, MD, Susan Foerster, MD,¶¶ Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD,## Nancy Sullivan, MS, CCRC...

In cases in which there is no standard orthography for a language or language variant, written texts will display a variety of orthographic choices. This is problematic for natural language processing (NLP) because it creates spurious data sparseness. We study the transformation of spontaneously spelled Egyptian Arabic into a conventionalized orthography which we have previously proposed for NL...

The epsilon toxin, produced by Clostridium perfringens, is responsible for enterotoxemia in ruminants and is a potential bioterrorism agent. In the present study, 15 regions of the toxin were recognized by antibodies present in the serum, with different immunodominance scales, and may be antigen determinants that can be used to formulate subunit vaccines.

This paper aims in the design of an intelligent Fuzzy Inference System that evaluates risk due to natural disasters. Though its basic framework can be easily adjusted to perform in any type of natural hazard, it has been specifically designed to be applied in the case of forest fire risk in the area of the Greek terrain. Its purpose is to create a descending list of the areas under study, accor...

In Einführung in die Metaphysik (EM) Heidegger describes the advent of metaphysics by analyzing in detail the transition from the pre-socratic logos to what since Aristotle has come to be known as logic; in Die Frage nach dem Ding (DFD) (and in Heidegger 1950a ) the same story is told but this time by focusing on the decisive role of mathematics. EM mentions mathematics only indicidently, and n...

We explore the acoustics of Greek voiced stops produced by 2and 3year-old Greek-acquiring children and compare them with adult patterns, in order to understand developmental universals in the mastery of phonation-type contrast. A truly voiced stop (i.e., one realized with voicing onset before the burst), is a difficult sound because the buildup of supralaryngeal air pressure during stop closure...