This paper is part of my thesis which aims to examine the lexical and grammatical patterns of phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb is a two-word verb which consists of a main verb and a particle, both elements contributing to its meaning. The meanings of phrasal verbs can range across different degrees of idiomaticity. They can be classified as literal, semi-figurative and idiomatic phrasal verbs in t...

the potential risk of metal accumulation in periurban agricultural areas is a matter for concern.the climate characteristics and carbonate content of calcareous agricultural mediterranean soils typical inthese areas favour metal accumulation at the surface level; however there is also a risk of potential metalmobility. our study focuses on the soil properties affecting metal mobility in these s...

A central question concerning word recognition is whether linguistic categories are processed in continuous or categorical ways, in particular, whether regular and irregular inflection is stored and processed by the same or by distinct systems. Here, we contribute to this issue by contrasting regular (regular stem, regular suffix) with semi-irregular (regular stem, irregular suffix) and irregul...

Verb-particle combinations (VPCs) consist of a verbal and a preposition/particle component, which often have some additional meaning compared to the meaning of their parts. If a data-driven morphological parser or a syntactic parser is trained on a dataset annotated with extra information for VPCs, they will be able to identify VPCs in raw texts. In this paper, we examine how syntactic parsers ...

This paper examines regional and grammatical effects on the English particle verb alternation. We report on a judgment experiment and a Twitter corpus study designed to address Hughes et al.’s (2005) claim that the continuous order is favored in Scotland while the discontinuous order is favored in Southern England. The results from both the acceptability judgment study and the Twitter corpus re...

In the analysis of frozen hydrated biomolecules by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, template-based particle picking by a target function called fast local correlation (FLC) allows a large number of particle images to be automatically picked from micrographs. A second, independent target function based on maximum likelihood (ML) can be used to align the images and verify the presence of...

As device dimensions are scaled down, single event transients (SET) are increasingly affecting the reliability of integrated circuits. An SET is a transient voltage perturbation caused by an energetic particle strike at the semiconductor. This work studies the applicability of bulk built in current sensors (bulk-BICS) for SET detection in deep-submicron technologies. The bulk-BICS detects the t...

We investigate the influence of the packing fraction of highly polydisperse particle systems on the performance of a high-performance multilevel contact detection algorithm as applied for molecular dynamics type simulations. For best performance, this algorithm requires two or more hierarchy levels in order to cope with the strongly different particle size classes. In order to predict the optim...