In order to improve the forecasting ability of numerical models, a sequential data assimilation scheme, nudging, was applied to blend remotely sensing high-frequency (HF) radar surface currents with results from a three-dimensional numerical, EFDC (Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code) model. For the first time, this research presents the most appropriate nudging parameters, which were determined ...

Several important issues in voice assimilation have been recently revisited. In particular, is it gradient or categorical? Distributional analyses of the voicing ratio in assimilating vs. neutral contexts conducted on French data have yielded somewhat discrepant results, yet suggesting that assimilation is categorical and optional at the same time. In this study, we compare between-word voice a...

The assimilation model describes therapeutic change as an integration of experiences that had previously been problematic, distressing, avoided, or warded off. This study assessed whether assimilation was associated with treatment outcome in a sample of psychotherapeutic treatments for depression. Further, it assessed the direction of the association-whether increasing assimilation predicted de...

Given that oral consonants often block total vowel assimilation (Aoki 1968, Steriade 1987), this case of metathesis can be analyzed as serving to allow assimilation to apply unimpeded (cf. Broselow 2001). In terms of Optimality Theory, both the constraint driving assimilation and the constraint blocking assimilation across an oral consonant are satisfied, at the cost of violating faithfulness c...

The assimilation of enterprise systems has extensive influence on power interactions within organizations. Previous assimilation research has typically focused on organizational-level assimilation processes, and the impact of individual characteristics, including personal power, has been overlooked. Social network analysis provides a useful way to empirically examine the changes to personal pow...

The main purpose of this article is to formulate a defence of the emerging intercultural policy paradigm for the benefit of those who are still somewhat reluctant to accept its proper place within the current migration-related diversity policy debate. My defence will take two main lines of argumentation: Firstly, I will state that the increasing intensity of the intercultural policy paradigm mu...

STUDY DESIGN This is a cross-sectional analysis of resonance magnetic images of 111 patients with craniocervical malformations and those of normal subjects. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that atlas assimilation is associated with basilar invagination (BI) and atlas's anterior arch assimilation is associated with craniocervical instability and type I BI. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Atlas a...

the values of fourteen carbohydrates assimilation patterns were investigated for typical and atypical strains of microsporum canis. thiry eight strains of typical and twenty two strains of atypical microsporum canis, microsporum canis ncpf 352 and one microsporum distortum were included in this study. statistical analysis of the results indicated that despite limited variations within the patte...

In Lombardi (1996) I propose a set of constraints within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) that account for patterns of obstruent devoicing and assimilation phenomena in the world's languages. Rerankings of these constraints produce only patterns in which voicing assimilation is regressive. However, there are cases of progressive voicing assimilation. I will argue in this paper that...