BACKGROUND: Accentuation in Japanese loanword phonology has been an area of controversy. Previous linguists such as McCawley (1968) have suggested a traditional mora-based generalization: loanword accentuation in Japanese has a basic default pattern on the syllable containing the antepenultimate mora; while others claim that Japanese loanword accentuation follows the Latin stress rule (Kubozono...

Introduction. Despite being an important health problem in developing countries, there is little information available on factors affecting the severe acute malnutrition, especially nondietary factors. Objective. To study the impact of various factors, especially nondietary ones affecting directly or indirectly the weight gain in children with severe acute malnutrition. Method. A total of 300 c...

Due to the lower DMI, the IH200 heifers had lighter final weight and lower ADG on a live basis (P<.01) than the IHFH heifers, but these differences were reduced on a carcass-adjusted basis. The IH200 heifers had significantly improved feed conversion compared to FH and R200 (P = 0.01) and tended to have better feed conversion than IHFH (P = 0.14) on a carcass-adjusted basis. The IH200 heifers h...

1. Correlations with weight at slaughter (SltWt) SltWt, DFI: For cattle, weighted mean estimates from the 6 studies cited by Arthur and Herd (2008) and Crowley et al. (2010) are: rg = 0.72, rp = 0.61, for weight (during a feed efficiency test) with DFI measured over at least 50 days. Genetic correlations of weight with DFI in lambs are similar (rg = 0.85, François et al., 2007; rg = 0.71 ± 0.11...

Policymakers are increasingly interested in the wider consequences of major sporting events, including their environmental impacts. Indeed, London 2012 included as part of its winning Olympic bid a commitment to measure and take steps to minimize the environmental impacts of the forthcoming Games. This paper demonstrates how the ‘Ecological Footprint’ has been used to measure the environmental ...

By the semi-inverse method proposed by He, a Lagrangian is established for the large deflection problem of thin circular plate. Ritz method is used to obtain an approximate analytical solution of the problem. First order approximate solution is obtained, which is similar to those in open literature. By Mathematica a more accurate solution can be deduced. 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights re...

The part between quotation marks is called the quote, the rest is the reporting clause. From (1) it is clear that quotes can be sentence-initial, discontinuous, or sentence-final. One of my conclusions will be that the quote-final construction (1c) is fundamentally different from the other two. Quotative constructions are not restricted to high-frequent reporting verbs such as zeggen ‘say’ and ...

Background: e-status is a web-based tool able to generate different statistical exercises and to provide immediate feedback to students’ answers. Although the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is becoming widespread in undergraduate education, there are few experimental studies evaluating its effects on learning. Method: All of the students (121) from an introductory cour...

With little fanfare, marijuana became a prohibited substance in 1923. Even though it had been used for sacramental, medicinal and recreational purposes for 10,000 years, when Parliament decided to criminalize marijuana use in 1923, few members of Parliament had even heard of this drug. In fact, in 1923, few Canadians were using it, and until the explosion of the counterculture in the 1960’s, th...