This paper has two major goals. First, we want to critically assess the ‘‘universal free choice’’ (UFCA) analysis as it has been formulated in Menéndez-Benito (2010) for Spanish Free Choice Items (FCIs), while updating the dependent indefinite analysis of FCIs proposed originally in Giannakidou (1997, 2001). We find the UFCA empirically inadequate for FCIs, failing to capture their correct dist...

In a Dual-Coolant Lead-Lithium (DCLL) blanket, tritium losses from the PbLi into cooling helium streams may occur when the liquid-metal breeder is moving in the poloidal ducts. Quantitative analysis of the mass transfer processes associated with the tritium transport in the breeder as well as tritium diffusion through the structural and functional materials is important for two main reasons. Th...

Testwiseness is defined as the set of cognitive strategies used by a student that is intended to improve his or her score on a test regardless of the test’s subject matter. Questions with elements that may be affected by testwiseness are common in physics assessments, even in those which have been extensively validated and widely used as evaluation tools in physics education research. The poten...

In this paper we establish a set of conditions on the production of free choice items (FCI) in multi-party dialogue. Thus, we first observe that indefinite constructions are produced when speakers try to lead their addressees to access general, scalar rules, called topoı̈. These rules are used in reaching certain conclusions. However, the hearers need to be lead to access topoı̈ when they do not ...

The Turkish Mastiff or Aksaray Malakli Dog is a dog breed not yet officially recognized by the world canine organization - Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). To achieve recognition, more research and analysis of morphometric parameters this are required. Previous on presented average values certain morphological parameters. Measurement results 20 showed that there statistically signif...

As part of the payload 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission, Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) suite instrument has been observing Martian atmosphere since March 2018. NOMAD is mainly dedicated to study trace atmospheric species taking advantage a high-spectral resolution. We demonstrate that when in nadir mode, i.e., line-of-sight points centre Mars, it can be also explo...

In a network consisting of several thousands computers, the occurrence of faults is unavoidable. Being able to test the behavior of a distributed program in an environment where we can control the faults (such as the crash of a process) is an important feature that matters in the deployment of reliable programs. In this thesis, we present FAIL (for FAult Injection Language), a language that per...

The Full-Configuration-Interaction Nuclear-Orbital (FCI-NO) approach [J. Chem. Phys., 2009, 131, 19401], as the implementation of the quantum-chemistry ansatz, is overviewed and applied to (He)N-Cl2(X) clusters (N≤ 4). The ground and excited states of both fermionic (3)He and bosonic (4)He [see also, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 2, 2145] clusters are studied. It is shown that the FCI-NO approach...