Idsardi and Raimy 2000 (I&R) propose that the representations posited by a learner are constrained by economy considerations. If a child hears a string like the Temiar continuative [sglOg], two possibilities are available while building the underlying representation of the string. Either the two segments [g] perceived in the string correspond to different tokens of the same type, or they corres...

In recent years, the phenomenal growth and popularity of social media, news and discussion websites has led to a vast number of information sources available online. These sources generate massive amounts of real-time content on a daily basis making it increasingly difficult to glean true and useful information from them. Automatically categorizing and compressing important contextual informati...

Identifying sound sources is fundamental to developing a stable representation of the environment in the face of variable auditory information. The cortical processes underlying this ability have received little attention. In two fMRI experiments, we investigated passive adaptation to (Exp. 1) and explicit discrimination of (Exp. 2) source identities for different categories of auditory objects...

Amid widespread reports of deforestation, some nations have nevertheless experienced transitions from deforestation to reforestation. In a causal relationship, the Forest Identity relates the carbon sequestered in forests to the changing variables of national or regional forest area, growing stock density per area, biomass per growing stock volume, and carbon concentration in the biomass. It qu...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine listeners' ability to learn talker identity from speech produced with an electrolarynx, explore source and filter differentiation in talker identification, and describe acoustic-phonetic changes associated with electrolarynx use. METHOD Healthy adult control listeners learned to identify talkers from speech recordings produced using talkers' ...

As the basis for comparative biology, correctly assigning character homology is critical. Yet, identifying homologous characters in practice is often challenging. Among the major roadblocks is that the mechanistic bases of character homology remain in question. Thus, investigators must rely on several independent lines of evidence (e.g., character anatomy, phylogenetic distribution, or embryolo...

This paper addresses the topic of federated identity management. It discusses in detail the following topics: what is digital identity, what is identity management, what is federated identity management, Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity, how can we protect the user’s privacy in a federated environment, levels of assurance, some past and present federated identity management systems, and some cu...

in first stage it must notice the identity cri sis as pathological approach to identity and if pathogenesis. factor s would be distinguished, it will be assumed as basis for remedy the problems. in the record of iran historical identity we must study a period of 170 years ago. iranian approaches to the western civilization based on two different methods: a)reject attitude. and b)terrified attit...

BACKGROUND Multiplication of data sources within heterogeneous healthcare information systems always results in redundant information, split among multiple databases. Our objective is to detect exact and approximate duplicates within identity records, in order to attain a better quality of information and to permit cross-linkage among stand-alone and clustered databases. Furthermore, we need to...

The purpose of this paper is to address the lack of knowledge of the accounting occupational group in England prior to the formation of professional accounting bodies. It does so by focusing on attempts made by the occupational group of writing masters and accountants to establish a recognisable persona in the public domain, in England, during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and to enha...