The discussion of whether the role information encoded by verbs is anticipatorily used in sentence comprehension apart from the world knowledge in the context has been a while. However, in head-initial languages like English, it is difficult to tell apart the use of lexical information like verbs from that of world knowledge information because roles associated with role fillers are mostly enco...

BACKGROUND The systemic consequences of esthetic filler injections are poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION We report a patient with a past history of subcutaneous injection of aesthetic filler material in the lower legs, who presented with post-infectious glomerulonephritis following necrotic leg ulcers at the injection site. Kidney biopsy revealed the presence of translucent, non-birefringe...

We evaluated the concentration of fluoride release at the initial stage and after recharging the fluoride from a resin-based sealant containing surface reaction-type pre-reacted glass-ionomer (S-PRG) filler and conventional resin-based sealants. The concentration of other ions released from the sealants in the surrounding distilled water was also examined. At the initial stage, fluoride was rel...

Tensile stress-relaxation measurements have been performed on a series of cross-linked filled elastomers. The fillers are chosen in order to investigate the effect of the filler-filler and the filler-matrix interactions on the time dependence of the tensile relaxation modulus after UP and DOWN jumps. For the carbon black filled sample (strong filler-elastomer interaction) decreases as log(t) wh...

The deformed structure of silica-filled elastomers under uniaxial strain has been investigated using a combination of both small angle x-ray scattering and small angle neutron scattering methods. Using an extraction procedure and taking into account the two-phase nature of these polymer-based composites, the single chain scattering behavior as well as filler properties could be obtained uniquel...

In this paper, we introduce a word graph interface between speech and natural language processing systems within a flexible speech understanding framework based on stochastic concept modeling augmented with background ”filler” models. Each concept represents a set of phrases ( written as a context free grammar (CFG)) with the same meaning, and is compiled into a stochastic recursive transition ...

A novel calcium silicate filler can be made from fly ash. This new filler, known as fly ash based calcium silicate (FACS), has a highly porous surface structure, high brightness (91% ISO), low bulk density (0.31 g/cm 3 ), and high specific surface area (121 m 2 /g). In this paper, its potential application as a paper filler was studied and its effect on drainage, retention, and paper properties...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of reactive mono- and tricalcium phosphate addition on the mechanical, surface free energy, degradation and cell compatibility properties of poly(lactide-co-propylene glycol-co-lactide) dimethacrylate (PPGLDMA) thin films. Dry composites containing up to 70 wt.% filler were in a flexible rubber state at body temperature. Filler addition increa...

We are presenting a new method of processing polystyrene-silica nanocomposites, which results in a very well-defined dispersion of small primary aggregates (assembly of 15 nanoparticles of 10 nm diameter) in the matrix. The process is based on the use of a high boiling point solvent, in which the nanoparticles are well dispersed, and a controlled evaporation procedure. The filler's fine network...

This paper introduces a never before described strategy used by bilinguals to fill hesitation pauses. This strategy proved so unique that it was given the name ‘idiosyncratic filler.’ It describes a filler type that is produced unusually often by one individual when hesitating. It is usually a particular lexical filler that is used as often as or more often than all other lexical fillers combin...