A commonly made cross-linguistic generalization is that languages with extensive case-marking tend also to have greater freedom of word order than languages without. Explicit statements to this effect can be found in Sapir (1921, pp. 66, 177ff.), Jakobson (1936, p. 28) and more recently in Blake (2001, p. 15), but the idea goes back to the beginning of comparative studies of language. Thus on t...

A. Introduction B. Clearing the Clouds: Some Misconceptions about the Precautionary Principle 1. The PP and Scientific Uncertainty 2. The PP: Prescriptive or Epistemic? 3. Regulatory Action as Intuitive Judgment C. The Precautionary Principle as a Political Framework for Regulating Risks 1. Why Politics: Legitimacy, Discursive Complexity and Some Objections 2. The Politics of Precaution: A Gene...

We provide new conditions for identi…cation of accelerated failure time competing risks models. These include Roy models and some auction models. In our set up, unknown regression functions and the joint survivor function of latent disturbance terms are all nonparametric. We show that this model is identi…ed given covariates that are independent of latent errors, provided that a certain rank co...

Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that tethering of Sir3p at the subtelomeric/telomeric junction restores silencing in strains containing Rap1-17p, a mutant protein unable to recruit Sir3p. This tethered silencing assay serves as a model system for the early events that follow recruitment of silencing factors, a process we term initiation. A series of LexA fusion proteins i...

plants firing fuel oil produce huge quantities of fly ash as solid waste, which needs to becharacterized prior to its proper management. it is worth mentioning that the published literature lackcomprehensive information on the characteristics of such fly ash. characteristics of fuel oil fly ash producedat selected power (pp) and water desalination (dp) plants were determined. the results showed...

This paper presents a novel fuzzy neural network (FNN) approach to detect malignant mass lesions on mammograms. The FNN is a self-adjusting and adaptive system. It is simple in structure and easy to incorporate experts' knowledge and fuzzified factors in the detection of malignant mass lesions on mammograms. The FNN has four layers. The first layer is the input layer consisting of 4 fuzzy neuro...

This chapter considers the allocation of components to a multi-class Gaussian mixture model in the context of speech recognition using a hidden Markov model (HMM) [l, 21, 481. A hidden Markov model provides a model of a system where :..