PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cells show characteristics of high power density, low operating temperature and fast start-up capability, which make them potentially suitable to replace conventional power sources (e.g. internal combustion engines) as Auxiliary Power Units (APU) for on-board applications. This paper presents a methodology for a preliminary investigation on either sizing and ...

Auxiliary nurses compare favourable with other health providers in mortality and morbidity. Working in shifts with low pay level and exposed to ergonomic, chemical and biological and mechanical agents, auxiliary nurses and related employees are a priority group for workplace health promotion (WHP). A total of 204 auxiliary nurses in three hospitals in Finland, Spain and Costa Rica participated ...

It is well-known that the English auxiliaries are sensitive to the so called NICE (Negation, Inversion, Contraction, and Ellipsis) phenomena. Based on these empirical properties of auxiliaries, this paper argues for the existence of the construction aux-headph(rase) whose subtypes include negation-ph, inversion-ph, ellipsis-ph, vp-filler-ph, and the like. Each of this subtype has its own constr...

Modal verbs in English are challenging to learn by speakers of other languages. The purpose of thiswas to shed light on the use of gesture in learning English modal verbs by Persian-speaking children.To achieve this, 60 elementary Iranian learners, studying at some institutes in Karaj took part in thisstudy. The participants were randomly put into one experimental group and one control group. T...

This paper describes an empirical study on the optimal granularity of the phrase structure rules and the optimal strategy for interleaving CFG parsing with unification in order to implement an eltlcient unification-based parsing system. We claim that using "medium-grained" CFG phrase structure rules, which balance tile computational cost of CI?G parsing and unification, are a cost-effective sol...

Jeoung (2020) argues that certain predicates in Indonesian are categorially ambiguous between auxiliaries and lexical verbs. Moreover, she claims the auxiliary reading has been overlooked analyses of so-called crossed control Indonesian. As we show this reply, however, is fact independent control.