CONSTRAINING INTERPRETATION: SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLES IN JAPANESE

In this paper, a model for the constrained robot dynamics, incorporating constraint uncertainties is developed. The rigid constraining surfaces are represented by a set of algebraic functions. The uncertainties in the constraint functions reflect the inaccuracy in the descriptions of the constraining surfaces. The constraint uncertainties influence the robot dynamics, giving rise to the need to...

Effects of normal aging on the use of sentence context information during language comprehension were examined by measuring younger and older adults' event-related potential (ERP) responses to congruent sentence-final words as a function of contextual constraint. Half of the sentence contexts were strongly constraining, rendering the target word very predictable, whereas the other half were wea...

We compute the distribution of the work done in stretching a Gaussian polymer, made of N monomers, at a finite rate. For a one-dimensional polymer undergoing Rouse dynamics, the work distribution is a Gaussian and we explicitly compute the mean and width. The two cases where the polymer is stretched, either by constraining its end or by constraining the force on it, are examined. We discuss con...

Given a complex of vertices, constraining segments (and planar straight-line constraining facets in 3D) and an-Lipschitz control spacing function f() over the domain, an algorithm presented herein can generate a conforming mesh of Delaunay triangles (tetrahedra in 3D) whose circumradius-to-shortest-edge ratios are no greater than p 2 (2 in 3D). The triangle (tetra-hedron) size is within a const...