We investigate the special class of formulas made up of arbitrary but finite combinations of addition, multiplication, and exponentiation gates. The inputs to these formulas are restricted to the integral unit 1. In connection with such formulas, we describe two essentially distinct families of canonical formula-encodings for integers, respectively deduced from the decimal encoding and the fund...

Motivation Proposal Patterns detection Patterns detection algorithm: empirical analysis Conclusion and limitations Future works

This paper is concerned with noun incorporation (NI) in Chukchi, a Kamchatkan language spoken in Siberia. The data discussed are taken from two papers on this subject, namely Polinsky (1990) and Spencer (1995). This amount of data is of course extremely restricted, but I attempt to give an insight into the phenomenon and its theoretical solution rather than discuss it thoroughly on the basis of...

General results on transformations on information production processes (IPPs), involving transformations of the h-index and related indices, are applied in concrete, simple cases: doubling the production per source, doubling the number of sources, doubling the number of sources but halving their production, halving the number of sources but doubling their production (fusion of sources) and, fin...

Article history: Received 12 December 2007 Available online 16 June 2009 Communicated by James W. P. Hirschfeld

Science faculty with education specialties (SFES) are increasingly being hired across the United States. However, little is known about the motivations for SFES hiring or the potential or actual impact of this trend. In the context of a recent national survey of US SFES, we investigated SFES perceptions about these issues. Strikingly, their perceptions about the reasons for hiring SFES were poo...

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