Kobuchi-Philip, Mana. 2010. Indeterminate Numeral Quantifiers, ‘Some’ and ‘Many’ Readings, and Questions in Japanese. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35, 503-530. The Japanese indeterminate numeral quantifier (WH-CL) can directly combine with a quantificational particle ka or mo, forming, e.g., nan-nin-ka ‘what-CLperson-KA’ or nan-nin-mo ‘what-CLperson-MO’. This paper focuses on the empirical ev...

BACKGROUND Approximately one-third of the world population is infected with M. tuberculosis and helminths (Kariminia et al. (2009), Walson et al. (2010)). Pregnancy and Helminth infection are known to suppress the TH1 response (Kariminia et al. (2009), Elias et al. (2006)) on which the QuantiFERON Gold in Tube (QFT-GIT) assay, that measures the released IFN-γ upon in vitro stimulation with myco...

Interferon-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) can give indeterminate results. The prevalence of indeterminate test results (ITRs) among T-SPOT.TB tests was assessed. A retrospective analysis of samples processed in 2005 was performed. ITRs were assessed by age, sex, immunosuppression, distance to the laboratory and season. A subgroup of tests performed for specific indi...

We present a model with heterogeneous firms, in which credit constraints may give rise to self-fulfilling, sunspot-driven business cycle fluctuations. We derive optimal incentive-compatible loan contracts, under which a firm’s borrowing capacity is constrained by expected equity value. Interactions between debt and equity value made possible by credit constraints generate a credit externality, ...

BACKGROUND Indeterminate and nondiagnostic patterns represent the main limitation of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of thyroid nodules, clinical and echographic features being poorly predictive of malignancy. The newly developed real-time ultrasound elastography (USE) has been previously applied to differentiate malignant from benign lesions. The aim of this study was to get further insi...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: the aim of this study was to create a diagnostic model using the artificial neural networks (anns) to predict malignancy in multinodular goiter patients with an indeterminate cytology. materials and methods: out of 623 patients, 411 evaluated for multinodular goiter between july 2004 and march 2010 had a fine‑needle aspiration biopsy. ...

studies on the biometric parameters of a species to have an important role in its population or stock management and conservation. present study investigated the morphometric, meristic, length-weight relation (lwrs), length-length relation (llrs) and growth status (k and kn) of the redline torpedo barb, p. denisonii collected during august 2012 to july 2013 from river valapattanam, kerala. the ...

Although the number and form of metazoan organs are determined in the embryo, plants continuously form organs via pluripotent stem cells contained within the meristem. Flowering plants have an indeterminate meristem in their diploid generation, whereas the common ancestor of land plants is inferred to have formed an indeterminate meristem in its haploid generation, as observed in the extant bas...

Naï ve reasoning and problem solving is error-prone. One such pattern is manifested in that people err more often when problems are indeterminate than when problems are determinate We suggest that an incomplete problem representation could account for the observed pattern of errors. We further contend that in verbal reasoning such incomplete representation stems from a lack of systematic repres...

We compare the implications of determinate vs. indeterminate growth of a parthenogenetic iteroparous ectotherm at constant food density in the context of the dynamic energy budget theory, which specifies the tight links between life history traits, such as feeding, aging, growth and reproduction. We do a comparative analysis using, as measure of fitness, the life span reproduction, the populati...