Syntactic constraints on antecedent-anaphor relations can be stated within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar (henceforth LFG) through the use of functional uncertainty (Kaplan and Maxwell 1988; Halvorsen and Kaplan 1988; Ksplan and Zaenen 1989). In the following, we summarize the general characteristics of syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding. Next, we describe a variation of funct...

This paper addresses the question of factoring a logic into families of (generally simpler) components, estimating the top– down perspective, splitting, versus the bottom–up, splicing. Three methods are carefully analyzed and compared: possible–translations semantics, nondeterministic semantics and plain fibring (joint with its particularization, direct union of matrices). The possibilities of ...

The coalescence of nearly rigid liquid droplets in a turbulent flow field is viewed as the drainage of a thin film of liquid under the action of a stochastic force representing the effect of turbulence. The force squeezing the drop pair is modelled as a correlated random function of time. The drops are assumed to coalesce once the film thickness becomes smaller than a critical thickness while t...

Title of dissertation: ADVENTURES ON NETWORKS: DEGREES AND GAMES Siddharth Pal Dissertation directed by: Professors A.M. Makowski and R.J. La Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering A network consists of a set of nodes and edges with the edges representing pairwise connections between nodes. Examples of real-world networks include the Internet, the World Wide Web, social networks and trans...

The underlying non-linearity of how print colorants combine makes color control in printing significantly more complex than for other color imaging devices. While in additive systems a measurement of their few primaries and per-channel nonlinearities versus luminance is a sufficient basis for predicting color output, printing typically requires the measurement of a large number of colorant comb...

The field of liquid crystals (LCs) is for me one of the most fascinating aspects of the Science of Materials, on the other hand, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) represents a very powerful spectroscopy for the large amount of possibilities in performing and projecting new experiments, with the purpose of enlightening both the molecular structure, orientational ordering and dynamics of single mo...

In this document, we outline some elements related to sense variation and to sense delimitation within the perspective of the Generative Lexicon. We then show that, in some cases, the Qualia structure can be combined with or replaced by a small number of rules, which seem to capture more adequately the relationships between the predicator and one of its arguments. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Inve...

The ‘sensory turn’ in anthropology has generated a significant literature on sensory perception and experience. Whilst much of this is critical the compartmentalization particular ‘senses’, there been limited exploration how anthropologists might examine beyond ‘the senses’. Based ethnographic fieldwork with people who have impaired vision walking South Downs landscape England, article develops...

The cost of reconciling consistency and state management with high availability is highly magnified by the unprecedented scale and robustness requirements of today’s Internet applications. We propose two strategies for improving overall availability using simple mechanisms that scale over large applications whose output behavior tolerates graceful degradation. We characterize this degradation i...

Numerous genetic studies that show close genetic relationships between morphologically-defined coral species support the concept of reticulate evolution. The ecological scenarios that lead to such genetic patterns are less well studied. The crux in such studies is to answer under which conditions gene-flow between coral morphospecies breaks down and give rise to new genetic clusters with higher...