This paper investigates the perception of word prosodic contrasts as a function of focus and position in the intonational phrase in two Dutch Limburgian dialects, Roermond and Weert. While their word prosodic contrasts share a historical source, the two dialects differ in that Weert realizes the prosodic contrast by duration, while Roermond uses f0. In addition, the Roermond dialect, but not th...

Improving cloud information over deserts from SCIAMACHY O2 A-band N. Fournier, P. Stammes, M. de Graaf, R. van der A, A. Piters, R. Koelemeijer, and A. Kokhanovsky KNMI, Climate Research and Seismology Department, De Bilt, The Netherlands RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Institute of Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany Received:...

The most widely publicized privacy concern about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems revolves around the inclusion of RFID tags in consumer goods, with the concomitant fear that parties other than the consumer will be able to detect the presence and location of a tagged object. The author used a conceptual framework developed by Mick and Fournier (1998) to understand consumer reaction...

bien qu’ils soient partout dans l’œuvre, les stéréotypes de robbe-grillet (personnages, thèmes, matériaux stylistiques) n’ont encore jamais été étudiés de manière spécifique, détaillée, et à partir d’un large corpus. dans les limites de notre présente recherche, nous nous proposons d’étudier les stéréotypes relatifs aux personnages et, dans des cas très restreints, d’analyser les thèmes et les ...

Loop fusion is a program transformation that combines several loops into one It is used in parallelizing compilers mainly for in creasing the granularity of loops and for improving data reuse The goal of this report is to study from a theoretical point of view several variants of the loop fusion problem identifying polynomi ally solvable cases and NP complete cases and to make the link between ...

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam, by Alain George. Gingko 2021. Library Art Series. 260pp., 165 ill. Hardback 60£. ISBN0-13: 9781909942455.

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