As suggested by Grimshaw and Mester (1988) for the analysis of the corresponding Japanese verb suru, ha-ta ‘do’ is ‘light’ in that it is partially or completely devoid of its own θ-marking capacities. In (1a), the arguments John and Tom are semantically selected, not by ha-ta but by the Sino-Korean noun (hereafter the MAIN PREDICATE) tayhwa ‘talk’, and similarly in (1b) the arguments John and y...

We used up to 30 morphological characters to discriminate and describe species of the genus Discoporella based on complete colony specimens collected from both coasts of the Isthmus of Panama. The characters included zooidal characters and colony-level characters such as colony size and basal granule density. Species were classified by a series of multivariate cluster and linear discriminant an...

AIMS Research has shown that smoking-related cues are important triggers for craving. The objective of the present study was to test whether smoking cues in movies also function as triggers to evoke craving. To accomplish this, we conducted a pilot study in which we examined smokers' reactivity to smoking cues from a particular movie in a common cue-reactivity paradigm using pictures. In the ma...

CONTEXT Children's exposure to violence in the media is a possible source of public health concern; however, violence in children's animated films has not been quantified. OBJECTIVE To quantify and characterize violence in G-rated animated feature films. DESIGN Violence content was reviewed for all 74 G-rated animated feature films released in theaters between 1937 and 1999, recorded in Eng...

Tokyo Japanese has a lexical pitch-accent system whereas Seoul Korean features no wordlevel tonal representations. The present study investigated phonological perception of lexical pitch-accent by advanced Seoul Korean learners of Japanese, via sequence-recall experiments. The results, on the contrary to our prediction, showed that advanced Korean learners performed as well as native Japanese s...

This article aimed to describe the online learning phenomenon from perspective of facilities, curriculum, and students’ characters in schools correlation among those three variables. research employed a qualitative descriptive method. The data were collected through interviews, observations, questionnaires. subject was fifth-grade class an elementary school Palembang, which consisted 19 parents...

this study was designed to evaluate population variation and differentiation of bartail flathead, platycephalusindicus (linnaeus, 1785)in the iranian waters of the persian gulf using the morphometric and meristic characters. a total of 180 fish were collected by gill net from six stations (khormosa, bahrekan, shif, motaf, charak and bandar abbas) of iranian coasts of persian gulf including 30 f...