Abstract Nonuniform slot air bearing (NSAB) systems have two major advantages, the external supply and restrictor design, their inherent multidirectional supporting forces stiffness that provide excellent rotational stability. However, NSAB are prone to vibration from nonperiodic or chaotic motion caused by nonlinear pressure distribution within gas film, imbalance, simply inappropriate design....

The distribution of indefinite singular generics is much more restricted than that of bare plural generics. The former, unlike the latter, seem to require that the property predicated of their subject be, in some sense, “definitional”. Moreover, the two constructions exhibit different scopal behavior, and differ in their felicity in conjunctions, questions, and expressions describing the speake...

It has been argued that attitude verbs shift reference of indexicals in the embedded clauses in some languages (Schlenker 1999, 2003; Anand and Nevins 2004). I argue that not only overt attitude predicates but implicit emotive modality is a context shifting operator which changes context parameters. I base my argument on the following three mono-clausal constructions: i) fake past; ii) fake pre...