A country’s suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency union, and the extent to which domestic business cycles are correlated with those of the other countries. But international trade patterns and international business cycle correlations are endogenous. T...

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership and political participation raise l...

Emulation has evolved into a mature digital preservation strategy providing, inter alia, functional access to a wide range of digital objects using their original creation environments. In contrast to format migration strategies a functional, emulation-based approach requires a number of additional components. These can be provided by Emulation-as-a-Service, implemented and developed as a distr...

WHEN the Council of the N.A.M.H. met in April, 1961, it debated whether, now that the Mental Health Review Tribunals were beginning to review cases, it might be profitable for some research to be undertaken to establish what happened to patients discharged by the Tribunals. The General Secretary wrote on April 24th, 1961, expressing the strong opinion of Council that 'this new procedure, which ...

This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of the English resultative construction that crucially models telicity (aspectual boundedness) in terms of the event-argument homomorphism model (Krifka, 1998, inter alia) rather than the commonly assumed result state model (Dowty, 1979). This assumption, together with recent insights on the semantics of scalar adjectives (Hay et al., to appear; Ken...

This article reflects on the phenomenon of a growing dissatisfaction and restlessness with traditional forms of worship as well as on some conceptions of the notion of liturgical renewal. It proposes that a fundamental liturgical reframing is indeed needed, grounded on the theological locus of the Christ-event. A brief description is given of the liturgical importance of this event, followed by...

Evaluative adjectives like stupid, smart, silly, and rude have been recognized as a coherent syntactic and semantic class for over forty years (Lees 1960, Bolinger 1961, Vendler 1963, 1968, Quirk et al. 1985). The class has gained recent attention, however, from syntacticians looking to extend analyses of argument alignment in the verbal domain to the adjectival domain (Stowell 1991, Bennis 200...

In this paper, I critically assess the enactive account of visual perception recently defended by Alva Noë (2004) . I argue inter alia that the enactive account falsely identifi es an object ’ s apparent shape with its 2D perspectival shape; that it mistakenly assimilates visual shape perception and volumetric object recognition; and that it seriously misrepresents the constitutive role of bodi...

Newly formed microvessels in most solid tumors show an abnormal morphology and thus do not fulfil the metabolic demands of the growing tumor mass. Due to the chaotic and heterogeneous tumor microcirculation, a hostile tumor microenvironment develops, that is characterized inter alia by local hypoxia, which in turn can stimulate the HIF-system. The latter can lead to tumor progression and may be...

We present the model construction technique called Linear Realizability. It consists in building a category of Partial Equivalence Relations over a Linear Combinatory Algebra. We illustrate how it can be used to provide models, which are fully complete for various typed λ-calculi. In particular, we focus on special Linear Combinatory Algebras of partial involutions, and we present PER models ov...