A prominent principle in explaining a range of word-order regularities is dependency locality, which minimizes the linear distances (dependency lengths) between head and its dependents. However, it remains unclear to what extent language users fact observe locality when producing sentences under diverse conditions cross-categorical harmony (such as placement verbal nominal heads on same vs. dif...

Information from the national drug abuse monitoring system was analysed to determine the trends in extent and pattern of drug dependence in Malaysia over the period 1970 to 1986. The annual incidence and prevalence rates of reported drug dependents increased by many folds when compared to the early seventies. Generally, the profile of drug dependents identified has remained relatively stable th...

We examine the effects of population aging due to declining fertility and rising elderly life expectancy on consumption possibilities in the presence of intergenerational transfers. Our analysis is based on a highly tractable continuous-time overlapping generations model in which the population is divided into three groups (youth dependents, workers, and elderly dependents) and lifecourse trans...

Based on a random, representative sample of 2,733 officer and 7,938 enlisted Army enrollees in the Active Duty Dependent's Dental Insurance Plan (ADDDIP), we found that soldiers turned to many sources to learn about the plan and that oral sources were consulted more commonly than written sources. More than 40% of Army enrollees have never used the plan. Officer dependents have used the ADDDIP t...

background substance use and affective disorders frequently co-occur, but the role of affective dysregulation in addiction is often overlooked. there is evidence shows that substance – dependent individuals have more problems in regulating their emotions. objectives this study compared two commonly used emotional regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and suppression, in opioids and metha...

This task consists of recognizing words and phrases that evoke semantic frames as defined in the FrameNet project (http: //framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu), and their semantic dependents, which are usually, but not always, their syntactic dependents (including subjects). The training data was FN annotated sentences. In testing, participants automatically annotated three previously unseen texts to ma...

People with congenital and/or acquired disabilities constitute a great number of dependents in today’s society [...]

Studies show that care in the family caregiver figure / a is susceptible to suffer burnout (Carelo et al., 2009; Martínez, 2009; Rogero-García, 2010; Moreno, 2011) due factors: (i) personal, (ii) educational and (iii) organizational. Which repercussions level: physical, mental and emotional (Maslach and Jackson, 1981; Atance, 1997; Maslach et al., 2001; Axayacalt et al., 2006). The objective of...