Is class inclusion (hyponymy) a more primitive or simpler semantic relation than synonymy? This question was addressed by comparing the time required to identify examples of the two relations in a semantic decision task. In two experiments subjects made true~false decisions about statements of the form "An A is a B. "" In Experiment 1 category-member and synonym pairs were randomly intermixed; ...

We study networks of coupled phase oscillators and show that network architecture can force relations between average frequencies of the oscillators. The main tool of our analysis is the coupled cell theory developed by Stewart, Golubitsky, Pivato, and Török, which provides precise relations between network architecture and the corresponding class of ODEs in RM and gives conditions for the flow...

linear matrix equations arising in phase type queues. Stochastic Models, 1:29{52, 1985. [17] D. Mitra. Stochastic theory of a uid model of producers and consumers coupled by a buer.

Close control of blood glucose levels significantly reduces vascular complications in diabetes, as well as having beneficial effect for cardiac and other critical care patients. Recent studies have shown that tight regulation of blood glucose level in intensive care unit patients can reduce mortality by as much as 45%. This paper presents an optimal insulin infusion algorithm to tightly regulat...

Starting from the assumption that ferromagnetically correlated regions exist in manganites even in the absence of long-range magnetic order, we construct a model of charge transfer due to the spin-dependent tunnelling of charge carriers between such regions. This model allows us to analyze the temperature and magnetic field dependence of resistivity, magnetoresistance, and magnetic susceptibili...

We present an example of a complete and minimal Gabor system consisting of time-frequency shifts of a Gaussian, localized at the coordinate axes in the time-frequency plane (phase space). Asymptotically, the number of time-frequency shifts contained in a disk centered at the origin is only 2/π times the number of points from the von Neumann lattice found in the same disk. Requiring a certain re...

1 École de Réadaptation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3N 1H1 2 École de Réadaptation, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CRIR), Montreal, QC, Canada H2H 2N8 3Department of Occupational Therapy Education, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA 4Faculty of Medicine, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Mc...

We present international evidence on the marriage market implications of cohort size growth, and set out a theoretical model of how marriage markets adjust to imbalances. Since men marry younger women, secular growth in cohort size in the second phase of the demographic transition worsens the position of women. This e¤ect has been substantial in many Asian countries earlier, and continues to be...

We remark that an easy combination of two known results yields a positive answer, up to log(n) terms, to a duality conjecture that goes back to Pietsch. In particular, we show that for any two symmetric convex bodies K,T in R, denoting by N(K,T ) the minimal number of translates of T needed to cover K, one has: N(K,T ) ≤ N(T ◦, (C log(n))K) log(n) log , where K◦, T ◦ are the polar bodies to K,T...

Spatially distributed monthly evapotranspiration (ET) rates over the 2000–2009 period were specified for the three states [Colorado (CO), Kansas (KS), Nebraska (NE)] sharing the Republican River basin with the help of a calibration-free ETestimation method using Moderate Resolution (of about one km) Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Mean annual ET rate is 444 mm [i.e., 103% of the mean an...