The paper gives a contrastive analysis of the two semantic categories specificity and definiteness. It argues against the traditional picture that assumes that specific expressions are a subclass of indefinite NPs. The paper rather assumes that the two categories are independent of each other. Definiteness expresses the discourse pragmatic property of familiarity, while specificity mirrors a mo...

Abstract This is a study of the semantics definiteness marking and its applicability to Old East Scandinavian linguistic scenario. Contrary Modern Continental languages, varieties did not possess fully-fledged definite articles, although all three demonstrative systems ( hinn, -inn, sá/þænn , sjá/þænni ) show some evidence being used as markers definiteness. A semantic analysis these forms in e...

We study the development of conjunctive keyword searchable scheme which enables one to search encrypted documents by using more than one keyword. The notion of conjunctive keyword searching was presented by Golle et al. in 2004. However, their security model was constructed in a symmetric-key setting which is not applicable for the overall applications in the reality. So Park et al. extended Go...

In this paper we present several proofs on the extension of M. Riesz fractional integration and di¤erentiation to the contexts of spaces of homogeneous type and measure metric spaces with non-doubling measures. 1. Introduction, some de…nitions, and a basic lemma Professor M. Ash asked me to write a survey article on some of the results that Stephen Vági and I obtained in the nineties on fractio...

In this paper we investigate non-convex optimal control problems. We are concerned with a-posteriori verification of sufficient optimality conditions. If the proposed verification method confirms the fulfillment of the sufficient condition then a-posteriori error estimates can be computed. A special ingredient of our method is an error analysis for the Hessian of the underlying optimization pro...