Speakers may use pitch accents as pointers to new information, or as signals of a contrast relation between the accented item and a limited set of alternatives. Some people claim that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a different melodic shape. Others, however, maintain that contrastiveness can only be determined by looking at how accents are distributed in an ...

Speakers may use pitch accents as pointers to new information, or as signals of a contrast relation between the accented item and a limited set of alternatives. There is no consensus in the literature whether a separately identi able contrastive accent exists. Some studies report that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a di erent melodic shape. In other studies,...

How do entrepreneurs decide to begin a full scale operation (i.e., exploitation of a new opportunity) in the entrepreneurial process? The question is investigated in a conjoint experiment with 55 entrepreneurs of high tech new ventures. The results suggest that entrepreneurs’ exploitation decision is positively affected by potential profitability (a low threat of imitation) and negatively by th...

Chronological cues are ubiquitous in retail settings, whether they come the form of production, release, on-shelf, or purchase dates, etc. Yet, remain relatively underexplored marketing literature. Could newness that arises from these chronological lead consumers to prefer options merely because newer, above and beyond any substantive benefits conferred implied by newness? We propose find a ser...

The Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC) leverages public-key cryptography to provide data integrity, source authentication, and denial of existence for DNS responses. To complement DNSSEC operations, DNSSEC Look-aside Validation (DLV) is designed for alternative off-path validation. Although DNS privacy attracts a lot of attention, the privacy implications of DLV are not fully invest...

On June 23, 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) formally approved the heart failure drug BiDil to treat heart failure in “selfidentified black patients.” The drug itself is not actually new; it is merely a combination of two generic drugs that have been used to treat heart failure for over a decade. BiDil's newness derives primarily from its public presentation as the world's fi...

In this article, I delineate a notion of phenomenology, which differs in many ways from earlier approaches. term understanding apocalyptic the sense that phenomenology discloses not only essences particular things, logical entities, ideas, and transcendental processes, but beyond them, it reveals reality its essential openness to newness. The apocalupsis refers simply unveiling something unknow...

P l atelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been a breakthrough in the stimulation and acceleration of bone and soft tissue healing. It represents a relatively new biotechnology that is part of the growing interest in tissue engineering and cellular therapy today. Because of its newness, there is a potential for misunderstanding, misuse, and application of what the practitioner may incorrectly think is PR...