This paper offers a typological analysis of the diachronic phenomena long-distance metathesis liquids that thrive in history several Romance languages. In particular, it explores from non-initial consonant-liquid configuration towards left periphery word, which may be accompanied by post-vocalic and subject to locality restrictions, i.e. limitations with respect distance migrating liquid travel...

This study explores metathesis in Syrian Arabic (SyA). The data reveal two types of metatheses. Type-I is phonologically conditioned, involving at least one the four root consonants, ʒ, f, ʕ and ћ with fricatives (z, s), liquids (l, r) or gutturals (q/ʔ) specific positions within regardless word derivation. Type-II morpho-phonologically Standard reflexive Pattern VIII, (ʔi)ftaʕal, that resulted...

This paper describes a game-theoretic methodology to design and embed watermarks in images. The optimality criterion is probability of error of the decoder. Analytical solutions are presented for problems involving Gaussian host images and illustrated with examples. Significant improvements over previous designs are obtained.

of the Thesis Evaluation, Implementation, and Extension of Primitive Optimality Theory by Daniel Matthew Albro Master of Arts in Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles, 1997 Professor Edward P. Stabler, Chair Eisner's (1997a) Primitive Optimality Theory is a simple formal model of a subset of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The work presented here implements this model...

Chemical biology relies on effective synthetic chemistry for building molecules to probe and modulate biological function. Olefin metathesis in organic solvents is a valuable addition to this armamentarium, and developments during the previous decade are enabling metathesis in aqueous solvents for the manipulation of biomolecules. Functional group-tolerant ruthenium metathesis catalysts modifie...

The hydrocarboxylation and hydrosilylation processes proposed in the copper-catalyzed reaction among carbon dioxide, diphenylacetylene and HSi(OEt)3 were comparatively studied with the aid of density functional theorycalculations. Our study is to explorewhy the reactionpreferred ahydrocarboxylation rather than a hydrosilylation process. It was found that the s bond metathesis between CueC and H...

We consider the bilevel programming problem and its optimal value and KKT one level reformulations. The two reformulations are studied in a unified manner and compared in terms of optimal solutions, constraint qualifications and optimality conditions. We also show that any bilevel programming problem where the lower level problem is linear with respect to the lower level variable, is partially ...