Our previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have indicated that the left dorsal inferior frontal gyrus (L. dF3op/F3t) and left lateral premotor cortex (L. LPMC) are crucial regions for syntactic processing among the syntax-related networks. In the present study, we further examined how activations in these regions were modified by the factors of construction and scrambling...

Most speech scrambling systems are either linear periodic filters or can be modeled as such. It is well-known that from an input-output point of view, a periodic filter is equivalent to a multi-input multi-output linear time-invariant system and thus a rational transfer matrix. In this paper, we propose a framework, based on transfer matrices and frequency domain descriptions, for analysis and ...

The development of communication technologies and the use of computer networks has led that the data is vulnerable to the violation. For this reason this paper proposed scrambling algorithm based on the Independent Component Analysis (ICA), and the descrambling process was achieved on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to resolve this problem. In the scrambling algorithm, the one speech signals ...

This paper describes how the most complete recent linguistic results on Korean scrambling (switching of word order) can be readily incorporated into an existing principlesand-parameters parser with minimal additional machinery. Out of all 29 sets of examples in chapters 2.2 and 3.2 of perhaps the most advanced linguistic analysis of Korean scrambling, [5]. 6 sets of examples can be correctly pa...

In this paper, I show that, by gathering evidence from the past literature and by presenting new evidence, subjects can undergo scrambling in Japanese, contrary to Saito’s (1985) Ban on Scrambling of Subject (BOSS), which has been a classic and wide-spread claim. In so doing, I argue that Japanese scrambling in general is subject to a version of minimality/superiority effect, a Feature-based Mi...

In this paper we propose scrambling as a lightweight method of censorship resistance, in place of the traditional use of encryption. We consider a censor which can only block banned content by scanning it while in transit (for example using deep-packet inspection), instead of attacking the communication endpoints (for example using address filtering or taking servers offline). Our goal is to gr...

This work addresses the problem of efficient query processing in multidatabase systems distributed over widearea networks. The solution unifies the query scrambling and reduction approaches to dynamic optimization of query processing plans at the data integration stage. The paper presents a new data integration algorithm based on query scrambling and the extended reduction technique. The algori...

Holmberg’s Generalization (Holmberg 1986) was originally stated to describe the “object shift” phenomena found in the modern Scandinavian languages. This dissertation argues that object shift is merely a subcase of scrambling, a type of adjunction, and that Holmberg’s Generalization is a subcase of a universal constraint, the “Generalized Holmberg Constraint” (GHC), which prohibits leftward scr...

Image encryption is an active and challenging research area. This article proposes a transposing and scrambling image encryption algorithm based on improved hyper-chaotic sequence to provide enhanced security for encrypted image transmission. The algorithm processes the hyper-chaotic sequence according to the pixel information, which makes the keys be sensitive to original image. Then we apply ...

This article considers unbiased estimation of mean, variance and sensitivity level of a sensitive variable via scrambled response modeling. In particular, we focus on estimation of the mean. The idea of using additive and subtractive scrambling has been suggested under a recent scrambled response model. Whether it is estimation of mean, variance or sensitivity level, the proposed scheme of esti...