An analysis of the climate parametrization scheme adopted by conventional forest gap models revealed that most models assume a constant climate and are difficult to calibrate consistently. Tree growth showed unrealistically sensitive threshold effects along ecological gradients of temperature and precipitation. A new parametrization was compared with its predecessors in terms of the model's cap...

BACKGROUND Pay for performance (P4P) schemes have become increasingly popular innovations in primary care and have generated questions about their effect on improving quality of care. AIMS To provide a brief outline of the international evidence on the relationship between P4P schemes and quality improvement. METHOD We conducted a literature search using relevant databases and reference lis...

This chapter begins my three chapter discussion of the behavior of non-verbal predication in Irish. In this chapter, I discuss the distribution and syntactic behavior of two different copular constructions in Irish: theTá (Bí) and Is1 constructions. In chapter 5, I look in detail at a word order alternation within the Is class of constructions. The final section on Irish copular constructions w...

3 Semantics 10 3.1 Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2 Kinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.3 Type Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4 Other Judgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

We construct a class of geometric twists for Calabi-Yau manifolds of Voisin-Borcea type (K3 × T )/Z2 and study the superpotential in a type IIA orientifold based on this geometry. The twists modify the direct product by fibering the K3 over T 2 while preserving the Z2 involution. As an important application, the Voisin-Borcea class contains T /(Z2 × Z2), the usual setting for intersecting D6 br...

The construction [NR+V/ADJR+SUF] in Tibetan may be analyzed as nominal phrase or as adjectives of exocentric construction with different meanings. How to segment, tag and auto-translate the two constructions will be a problem in Tibetan natural processing. This paper describes the constructions, types, variants in given situations and the ways of production of the exocentric constructions, whic...

It has been generally assumed that a violation of island constraints indicates that the relevant syntactic phenomena involves movement. That is, if what look like displacements violate island constraints but remain acceptable, this means that they should not be derived by movement. A careful examination of postverbal constructions in Japanese reveals that no movement is involved in the derivati...

This paper studies a distinction that was proposed in previous works between total and partial adjectives. In pairs of adjectives such as safe-dangerous, clean-dirty and healthy-sick, the first (“total”) adjective describes lack of danger, dirt, malady etc., while the second (“partial”) adjective describes the existence of such properties. It is shown that the semantics of adjective phrases wit...