Talmy proposed that languages fall into two types on the basis of where the semantic component of PATH is conflated in a Motion event. In his bifurcation, if the PATH is characteristically represented in the main verb of a sentence, the language is verb-framed, if it is characteristically represented in the satellite of the verb; the language is satellite-framed. In this framework, Chinese fall...

We define the notion of a "framed function" on a compact smooth manifold N and we show that the space of all framed functions on N is (dim N I)-connected. A framed function on N is essentially a smooth function N --> R with only Morse and birth-death singularities together with certain additional structure. Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to prove that the space of framed functions o...

Article history: Received 27 January 2008 Revised 23 July 2008 Accepted 5 August 2008 Available online 20 September 2008

For a fixed isotopy type K of unframed knots in S there are infinitely many isotopy classes of framed knots that correspond to K when we forget the framing. We show that the same fact is true for all the isotopy types of unframed knots in a closed oriented 3-manifold M , provided that M 6= (S × S)#M . On the other hand for any M = (S × S)#M ′ we construct examples of isotopy classes of unframed...

ABSTRACT In this paper, seismic analyses are performed of a reinforced concrete frame building with participating masonry walls carried out. The spectral method the Brazilian code – ABNT 15421:2006 was used to obtain lateral loads. equivalent diagonal-strut model employed simulate axial stiffness in frames, according different formulations founded literature. main purpose is evaluate difference...

The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets on eight markets in a computerized continuous double auction, indicate that (i) objectively irrelevant information influences trading behavior. Moreover, positively and negatively framed information leads to a particular trading pattern. However (ii), a probability variation of the framed information has no influen...

The authors examined the congruency hypothesis that health messages framed to be concordant with dispositional motivations will be most effective in promoting health behaviors. Undergraduate students (N=63) completed a measure of approach/avoidance orientation (behavioral activation/inhibition system) and read a gain- or loss-framed message promoting flossing. Results support the congruency hyp...

The authors examined the effects that differently framed and targeted health messages have on persuading low-income women to obtain screening mammograms. The authors recruited 752 women over 40 years of age from community health clinics and public housing developments and assigned the women randomly to view videos that were either gain or loss framed and either targeted specifically to their et...

Age differences in responses to framed health messages-which can influence judgments and decisions-are critical to understand yet relatively unexplored. Age-related emotional shifts toward positivity would be expected to differentially impact the affective responses of older and younger adults to framed messages. In this study, we measured the subjective and physiological affective responses of...

In a randomized experiment, women (N = 441) watched either a loss- or gain-framed video emphasizing the prevention or detection functions of the Pap test to test the hypothesis that loss- and gain-framed messages differentially influence health behaviors depending on the risk involved in performing the behavior. As predicted, loss-framed messages emphasizing the costs of not detecting cervical ...