Early experiences can alter adaptive emotional responses necessary for social behavior as well as physiological reactivity in the face of challenge. In the highly social prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), manipulations in early life or hormonal treatments specifically targeted at the neuropeptides oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP), have long-lasting, often sexually dimorphic, conse...

Lane markings can provide drivers significant warning instruction about current/ approaching road condition, in that case precise lane marking detection results are important assistance for safety issue in the driving assistance system (DAS). In this paper, we mainly focus on urban lane marking detection. We used sampling peaks from IPM image for lane markings’ extraction and description. The p...

This paper is concerned with case-matching effects under clausal ellipsis. We begin by considering available crosslinguistic data that indicate variation in case marking on a fragment delimited the argument structure of lexical head assigns to fragment’s correlate antecedent clause. then offer experimental evidence for preference Korean when and its may differ marking. corresponds known mandato...

For a long time, the hypothalamic nonapeptide oxytocin (OT) is known to play a crucial role in many reproductive and behavioral functions. In recent years, a new biological effect of OT has been identified in neoplastic pathology. In this context, OT acts as a growth regulator. through the activation of specific G-coupled transmembrane receptors (OTR). In vitro, an antiproliferative effect of O...

Oblivious transfer (OT) is a two-party primitive which is one of the cornerstones of modern cryptography. We focus on providing information-theoretic security for both parties, hence building OT assuming noisy resources (channels or correlations) available to them. This primitive is about transmitting two strings such that the receiver can obtain one (and only one) of them, while the sender rem...

Romanian is a language which exhibits differential object marking (DOM) using the particle pe and (in most cases) a clitic pronoun (Niculescu 1965, Pan -Dindelegan 1997, von Heusinger & Onea 2008, Stark & Sora 2008). Direct object case marking is optional with human indefinite direct objects, as in (1), and almost obligatory with postverbal human definite direct objects, as reflected in the con...

In this chapter, we explore the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for speech-language pathology.. But at the time of writing, the most accessible readings in OT for the speech-language pathologist are to be found in Bernhardt, Gilbert, and Ingram (1996). The first part of the chapter outlines major aspects of OT, and the second part discusses application of this theory to phonological inte...

Open-tubular CEC (OT-CEC) with a new stationary phase, salophene-lanthanide-Zn(2+) complex, has been applied to the separation of tryptic peptides of native BSA and BSA glycated by glucose and ribose. Glycation of proteins (non-enzymatic modification by sugars) significantly affects their properties and it is of great importance from a physiological point of view. Separation of tryptic peptides...

(Kiparsky 1971, 1973) draws attention to cases of historical change that suggest that at least some opaque phonological process interactions are difficult to learn. In his work on Stratal Optimality Theory (Stratal OT), he further claims that independent evidence about the stratal affiliation of a process is helpful in learning an opaque interaction (Kiparsky 2000). In this paper, we develop a ...

This is a case study of a child acquiring Taiwanese as her first language, attempting to model the phonological error patterns as well as output variation based on an optimality-theoretic (hereafter OT) analysis for her initial consonant acquisition. Driven by the fact that children usually do not produce one single output form that is identical to adults’, and the rule-based approach would fur...