base verb SCHIESSEN and a basic configuration, these rules profile further segments, until the entire causal chain (14) is profiled. Not only prefix derivation, but also zero-derivation occurs in this process (cf. Copestake / Briscoe, 1996:16, 18). In (24) the verb profile of configuration 3 is shifted to the right: (24) Das Gewehr schießt. [The rifle shoots.] We have seen that profiling bears ...

We present the results of three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of black hole accretion flows. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. Initial state is an equilibrium model of a torus threaded by weak toroidal magnetic fields. As the magnetorotational instability (MRI) grows in the torus, mass accretes to the black h...

This paper updates the influence of environmental and source factors of shocks driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that are likely to influence the solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The intensity variation due to CME interaction reported in [1] is confirmed by expanding the investigation to all the large SEP events of solar cycle 23. The large SEP events are separated into two groups, ...

Serial mechanical sectioning and high resolution X-ray tomography have been used to study the three-dimensional morphology of small fatigue cracks growing in a 12 Cr tempered martensitic steam turbine blade material. A range of surface conditions has been studied, namely polished and shot peened (with varying levels of intensity). In the polished (unpeened) condition, inclusions (alumina and ma...

BACKGROUND Vaccination programs often organize subsidies and public relations in order to obtain high uptake rates and coverage. However, effects of subsidies and public relations have not been studied well in the literature. In this study, the demand function of pneumococcal vaccination among the elderly in Japan is estimated, incorporating effects of public relations and subsidy. METHODS Us...

Video Shot-Boundary Detection is important for video analysis, segmentation and retrieval. The detection results of Shot-Boundary are not only relation with two nearest frames of shot cuts, but also their several neighboring frames. Video stream is multistream time sequence. Grey model based on set sequence (SGM) is proposed to analyze and process multi-stream time sequences constructed with sa...

In this paper, we propose a video summarization algorithm by multiple extractions of key frames in each shot. This algorithm is based on the k partition algorithms. We choose the ones based on k-medoid clustering methods so as to find the best representative object for each partitions. In order to find the number of partition (i.e. the number of representative frames of each shot), we introduce...

The capability of determining the right physical action to achieve a given task is essential for AI that interacts with the physical world. The great difficulty in developing this capability has two main causes: (1) the world is continuous and therefore the action space is infinite, (2) due to noisy perception, we do not know the exact physical properties of our environment and therefore cannot...