By some accounts, speakers of classifier languages such as Mandarin or Japanese, which lack count-mass syntax, require classifiers to specify individuated meanings of nouns. This paper examines this view by testing how Mandarin speakers interpret bare nouns and use classifier knowledge to guide quantification in four studies. Using a quantity judgment task, Study 1 found that Mandarin speakers ...

We report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of at least three, roughly parallel components in a 65 -long, stellar stream complex previously identified with the Monoceros Ring. The three-stream complex varies in width from 4 to 6 along its length and appears to be made up of two or more narrow substreams as well as a broader, diffuse component. The width and complexity of the str...

Data from existing Brisbane samples of adult women, and of adolescents of both sexes, were examined in an effort to replicate the Canberra finding of Turakulov, Jorm, Jacomb, Tan, and Easteal (2004); namely, an association between scores on Eysenck s Psychoticism (P) scale and short CAG sequences on the androgen receptor gene. They found a significant association in this direction in males, and...

We present an interactive key that is available online through any web browser without the need to install any additional software, making it an easily accessible tool for the larger public. The key can be found at http://identify.naturalis.nl/lithocolletinae. The key includes all 86 North-West European Lithocolletinae, a subfamily of smaller moths (“micro-moths”) that is commonly not treated i...

Excessively long build times severely reduce a team’s ability to apply the XP practice of Continuous Integration. Long build times have a severe impact on team morale, productivity, and project ROI. With the application of techniques described in this Long Build Trouble Shooting Guide, teams will be able to keep their builds from exceeding 10 minutes in length. By keeping builds short, teams wi...

This small volume has been written to supply a demand for a book on the subject, and the exhaustion of the 1st edition within six months is the hpst testimonial to the success of this object. Beyond some re-arrangement of the first chapter and some short additional section, the book is unaltered. It is a concise and handy guide to a subject, which, as the author points out in his preface, is on...

A homogeneous sample of galaxy redshifts in the core regions (R ≤ 0.5 h−1 Mpc) of 12 clusters is used to measure the frequency of substructure with different tests. In 50% of the cases substructure is detected, a frequency which agrees well with previous studies of cluster cores. Magnitude information and rough morphological classes are also available for 80% of the sample, allowing us to confi...

During 2008, SIAP collaborated with the Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy project on a review of the literature on civic engagement and the arts. Based on that review, SIAP considered the theoretical and methodological issues and developed a comprehensive strategy by which policymakers, researchers, and practitioners could improve evidence and advance understanding of the civic impact...

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