We discuss some issues arising in the evaluation of confidence intervals in the presence of nuisance parameters (systematic uncertainties) by means of direct Neyman construction in multi–dimensional space. While this kind of procedure provides rigorous coverage, it may be affected by large overcoverage, and/or produce results with counterintuitive behavior with respect to the uncertainty on the...

Standard linguistic analysis of syntax uses the T-model. This model requires the ordering: D-structure > S-structure > LF, where D-structure is the sentences deep structure, S-structure is its surface structure, and LF is its logical form. Between each of these representations there is movement which alters the order of the constituent words; movement is achieved using the principles and parame...

Preoperative planning of any surgical procedure, especially rhinoplasty, is crucial in order to achieve an optimal outcome which will satisfy both the surgeon and patient. Use of imaging and the possibility of virtually displaying the changes planned by the surgeon definitely lead to a better understanding between doctor and patient. Although these new technologies have led to undeniable advant...

The paper assesses the consequences of gradience for approaches to variation based on the Principles and Parameters model. In particular, the discussion focuses on recent crosslinguistic results obtained through magnitude estimation, a methodology particularly suited to the study of gradient acceptability/grammaticality. Results on superiority and relativised minimality effects in questions are...

The duty to obtain consent from a litigant before beginning a forensic evaluation has fallen to the forensic psychologist. Guidelines, ethical standards, and commentators have made this assumed duty mandatory. Unfortunately, psychologists are not able to provide accurate and detailed legal information concerning the forensic evaluation. Only a person trained in the law would be qualified, and t...

pappi is a multilingual, Prolog-based parsing system designed for implementing theories in the Principles-and-Parameters framework. This report describes the Japanese version of the system. In particular, it reviews how the core system can be extended to handle a variety of Japanese phenomena, including anti-superiority, indirect passives and potentials, o/ni -causative and dative subject const...

PETR HLINĚNÝ1,2,*, SANG-IL OUM3,7, DETLEF SEESE4 AND GEORG GOTTLOB5,6 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic VŠB, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160, USA Institute AIFB, University Karlsruhe (TH), D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Oxford University Comput...

Hunger strike is a common form of protest in prisons and is a potential cause of many types of problems, both for the prison administration and the doctors who care for prisoners who participate in one. Issues of conflict of rights and obligations involved, and how to treat people who are subject to the Administration, which in this case takes the position of guarantor, have created major contr...

Abundance calculations for the p-nuclei involve an extended network of about 20,000 nuclear reactions of almost 2,000 nuclei. These rates are calculated with the statistical Hauser Feshbach Model (HF-Model). Elastic scattering experimental data provides a test for the global parameterizations of optical potentials that are used in these statistical model calculations. Recent experiments suggest...