Non-cognate French-English homographs, such as pain, four, main, etc., are used to study the organization of bilingual memory. Bilingual lexical access is initially shown to be compatible with a parallel search through independent lexicons, where the search speed through each lexicon depends on the level of activation of the associated language. Particular attention is paid to reaction times to...

among various reported membrane-based gas separation processes, the best explanation is generally achieved by the solution-diffusion model. the main factors in this model are the solubility and diffusivity of permeationcomponents through the membrane. the prediction of permeability and diffusivity in multicomponent gas permeation as well as the separation evaluation equilibrium and kinetic inte...

Abstract Introduction: Isolated perfused heart models such as perfusion and superfusion are commonly used for mammalian heart research. However, there are several fundamental limitations in the current techniques. In perfusion model, a suitable cannula is connected to the aorta and the perfusion is retrogradely performed. But, electrode displacement is a potential unwanted event resulted fr...

Are compound words represented as unitary lexical units, or as individual constituents that are processed combinatorially? We investigated the neuro-cognitive processing of compounds using EEG and a passive-listening oddball design in which lexical access and combinatorial processing elicit dissociating Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain-response patterns. MMN amplitude varied with compound freque...

In this paper, we present our approach to address the OpenLiveQ task at NTCIR-13 [5]. The task is a question retrieval task and can be simply defined as follows: given a query and a set of questions with their answers, return a ranked list of questions. However, there is a “gap” between queries and candidate questions, which is called lexical chasm or word mismatch problem. In our model, we imp...

The dual generalized order statistics is a unified model which contains the well known decreasingly ordered random data such as (reversed ordered) order statistics and lower record values. In the present paper, some characterization results on the power function distribution based on the properties of dual generalized order statistics are provided. The results are proved without any rest...

1 Introduction The balance between storage and computation of complex words is a major point of departure both for theories of lexical representation (e. The atoms of lexical memory that are implicated in lexical processing experiments—be they whole words, roots and affixes, or some combination thereof—must ultimately coincide with the units of morphological theory if the latter are to be theor...

While it is well known that reading is highly heritable, less has been understood about the bases of these genetic influences. In this paper, we review the research that we have been conducting in recent years to examine genetic and environmental influences on the particular reading processes specified in the dual-route cognitive model of reading. We argue that a detailed understanding of the r...