Why should a project about an organizational merger be interesting? What do the Petit Price and the fox teach us about the mergers? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells us a story about to become friends. Knowing the Petit Prince the fox breaks its life style; it learns a new verbal and emotional language and consequently re organizes tis life In this paper, I argue that reading a merger event as a b...

In Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993) both language acquisition and language typology can be accommodated. The basic assumption is that constraints are universal, but that the rankings of these constraints are language particular. For language typology the idea is that different rankings reflect different (possible) languages. For acquisition the idea is that the learner needs to acqui...

This paper introduces a synthesis tool for template-based synthesis of asynchronous circuits. The tool, named Template Synthesizer (TSYN) and it is a part of a complete asynchronous design flow named Persia. This tool transforms a behavioral description of a circuit to a sized transistor net-list. The input behavioral description must fit into some previously known templates. These templates ar...

Persian music has had a profound effect on various Eastern musical cultures, and also influenced Southern European and Northern African music. The Santur, a hammered dulcimer, is one of the most important instruments in Persia. In this paper, Persian music and the Santur instrument are explained and analysed. Techniques for fundamental frequency detection are applied to data acquired from the S...

This paper investigates the prominence patterns of nominal triconstituent compounds in English. The standard assumption for such NNN compounds is that the branching-direction is responsible for stress assignment. In left-branching compounds, i.e. those of the structure [[NN] N], the leftmost noun is assigned highest prominence whereas in right-branching compounds, i.e. [N [NN]], the second noun...

Abstract: Discourses on Islamization in Indonesia are quite varied, including giving birth to the opinion that Islam originated Gujarat, Mecca, Persia and China. The problem is, discourse about of coming which later became a unified historical story is rarely found. long colonial postcolonial periods. This paper aims elaborate vision according Hoesein Djajadiningrat. argues originates from Pers...

Previous theories of past-tense verb inflection have considered phonological and grammatical information to be the only relevant factors in the inflection process (e.g. Bybee & Moder, 1983; Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986; Kim, Pinker, Prince & Prasada, 1991). This paper presents three experiments that show that semantic information plays a decisive role in determining the inflection of both exist...

This chapter analyzes the rapid diffusion of the Internet across the United States over the past decade for both households and firms. We put the Internet’s diffusion into the context of economic diffusion theory where we consider costs and benefits on the demand and supply side. We also discuss several pictures of the Internet’s current physical presence using some of the main techniques for I...