• The sound change spread as a result of areal contact, possibly originating in Lushootseed (Thompson and Thompson 1972:450-1). ∗Thank you very much to Melinda Fricke, Clara Cohen, Keith Johnson, and the members of the Pacific Northwest Languages Working Group for helpful comments on how to improve this work. Thank you also to the Ditidaht Elders for sharing their language and culture with me, ...

We present an e cent method within an active vision framework for recognizing objects which are ambiguous from certain viewpoints The approach uses an ob ject representation that is structural and appearance based At rst a preliminary object classi cation is obtained using the CRG algorithm In case of ambiguous classi cation results the system repositions its sensor and acquires additional data...

We study a majoritarian bargaining model in which players make payoff demands in decreasing order of voting weight. The unique subgame perfect equilibrium outcome is such that the minimal winning coalition of the players that move first forms with payoffs proportional to the voting weights. This result advances previous analysis in terms of one or more of the following: a) the simplicity of the...

A plethora of electronic personal task management (e-PTM) tools have been designed to help individuals manage their tasks. There is a lack of evidence, however, on the extent to which these tools actually help. In addition, previous research has reported that ePTM tools have low adoption rates. To understand the reasons for such poor adoption and to gain insight into individual differences in P...

R. DEVILLERS*{{, Y. BÉDARD{, R. JEANSOULIN{§ and B. MOULIN{ {Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s (NL) A1B 3X9, Canada {Centre de Recherche en Géomatique (CRG), Pavillon Casault, Université Laval, Québec (QC), G1K 7P4, Canada §Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes (LSIS), Centre de Mathématiques et d’Informatique (CMI), Université de Prove...

These notes about the activities of the two Spanish Collaborating Research Groups (CRG) at the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) are written to give a historical view of the group and to present the two new instrumental projects currently in development. After a brief description of the instruments with current Spanish participation (D1B and D15), it will be presented the project of construction of ...

Generalising Boolean-valued predicates to expectations | functions from the state space into 0; 1] | allows the deenition of probabilistic temporal operators that treat explicit probabilities as well as demonic nondeterminism and divergence. The conventional operational interpretation of the temporal operators does not generalise so easily: although one may speak of \satisfying a predi-cate" in...

The ht-index is a recently proposed tool for capturing dynamic views of the evolution process of geographic features, but the htindex is not sensitive to small changes during this process. To address this problem, an improved ht-index, a cumulative rate of growth (CRG) index, was proposed. Compared to the ht-index, the CRG index is more sensitive to changes during the evolution process of geogr...

The article “Caveats for the journal and field normalizations in the CWTS (“Leiden”) evaluations of research performance”, published by Tobias Opthof and Loet Leydesdorff (Opthof & Leydesdorff, 2010), denoted as O&L below, deals with a subject as important as the application of so called field normalized indicators of citation impact in the assessment of research performance of individual resea...

Between 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Education funded the evaluation of three Talent Development Initiatives for gifted and talented students. The methodology employed was one of participatory action research, a process of evaluation that enables learning by doing, as researchers and practitioners work alongside one another. Through the process of evaluating the three programmes, the researche...