bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Metal artifact reduction for CT-based luggage screening
Authors: Karimi Seemeen , Martz Harry , Cosman Pamela
Published: July 2015

BACKGROUND: In aviation security, checked luggage is screened by computed tomography scanning. Metal objects in the bags create artifacts that degrade image quality. Though there exist metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods mainly in medical imaging literature, they require knowledge of the materials in the scan, or are outlier rejection methods.

OBJECTIVE: To improve and evaluate a MAR method we previously introduced, that does not require knowledge of the materials in the scan, and gives good results on data with large quantities and different kinds of metal.

METHODS: We describe in detail an optimization which de-emphasizes metal projections and has a constraint for beam hardening and scatter. This method isolates and reduces artifacts in an intermediate image, which is then fed to a previously published sinogram replacement method. We evaluate the algorithm for luggage data containing multiple and large metal objects. We define measures of artifact reduction, and compare this method against others in MAR literature.

RESULTS: Metal artifacts were reduced in our test images, even for multiple and large metal objects, without much loss of structure or resolution.

CONCLUSION: Our MAR method outperforms the methods with which we compared it. Our approach does not make assumptions about image content, nor does it discard metal projections.
Image reconstruction for synchronous data acquisition in fluorescence molecular tomography
Authors: Zhang Xuanxuan , Liu Fei , Zuo Siming , Bai Jing , Luo Jianwen
Published: July 2015

The present full-angle, free-space fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) system uses a step-by-step strategy to acquire measurements, which consumes time for both the rotation of the object and the integration of the charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. Completing the integration during the rotation is a more time-efficient strategy called synchronous data acquisition. However, the positions of sources and detectors in this strategy are not stationary, which is not taken into account in the conventional reconstruction algorithm. In this paper we propose a reconstruction algorithm based on the finite element method (FEM) to overcome this problem. Phantom experiments were carried out to validate the performance of the algorithm. The results show that, compared with the conventional reconstruction algorithm used in the step-by-step data acquisition strategy, the proposed algorithm can reconstruct images with more accurate location data and lower relative errors when used with the synchronous data acquisition strategy.
Human Gait at Sea While Walking Fore-Aft vs. Athwart
Authors: Haaland Eric , Kaipust Jeffrey , Wang Yi , Stergiou Nick , Stoffregen Thomas A.
Published: July 2015

BACKGROUND: Sea travel leads to well-known changes in gait, but these effects have not been evaluated using quantitative data obtained through controlled experiments. We obtained quantitative data on step-timing patterns as experienced maritime crewmembers walked on a ship at
sea.METHODS: Using a within-subjects design, crewmembers walked back and forth along straight line paths (11 m long) that were parallel with the ship’s long (i.e., fore-aft) and short (i.e., athwart) axes. Using contact switches attached to the feet, we measured temporal parameters
of gait, including stride time, the variability of stride time, and the coefficient of variation. We also evaluated the temporal dynamics of stride times using detrended fluctuation analysis.RESULTS: The variability of stride time differed between walking fore-aft (mean = 0.10 s)
and walking athwart (mean = 0.28 s). The coefficient of variation also differed between walking fore-aft (mean = 11%) and walking athwart (mean = 43%).CONCLUSIONS: We obtained direct evidence that ship motions in roll and pitch differentially affect the timing of stepping patterns
in human gait. This novel finding motivates new research on quantitative parameters of gait at sea.Haaland E, Kaipust J, Wang Y, Stergiou N, Stoffregen TA. Human gait at sea while walking fore-aft vs. athwart. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2015; 86(5):435–439.
Visual Blur and Motion Sickness in an Optokinetic Drum
Authors: Bonato Frederick , Bubka Andrea , Thornton William
Published: July 2015

BACKGROUND: The most commonly cited hypotheses for motion sickness (MS) focus on inconsistent sensory inputs. Visual/vestibular conflicts may lead to MS, but visual input from retinal regions/neural pathways that are sensitive to motion might bear more weight in MS etiology.
We hypothesized that inducing blurred vision in an optokinetic drum would attenuate the influence of foveal (parvocellular) input, but not peripheral (magnocellular) input that is sensitive to motion. Increased relative influence of peripheral visual input was predicted to subsequently lead
to more visual/vestibular conflict and subsequently more severe MS symptoms.METHODS: Through goggles that were either clear or frosted, 15 subjects (5 men, 10 women, mean age = 24.9 yr, range = 18-49) viewed the interior of a rotating (60° · s−1) optokinetic
drum for 10 min. Subjects completed the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ) before and after viewing. Overall subjective sickness ratings (0-10) and visually induced self-motion perception (vection) ratings (0-10) were also recorded.RESULTS: Postexposure SSQ scores obtained in
the blur condition (total - 52.9, oculomotor - 38.9, disorientation - 69.6) were significantly higher than those obtained in the control condition (total - 30.4, oculomotor - 21.7, disorientation - 37.8). Overall sickness ratings and vection ratings were also significantly higher in the blur
condition.CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that visual blur can exacerbate MS, perhaps because of differential influences of visual pathways. Although these results were obtained with an optokinetic drum, possible effects of visual blurring in motion provocative environments such
aircraft, watercraft, spacecraft, and land vehicles should be considered.Bonato F, Bubka A, Thornton W. Visual blur and motion sickness in an optokinetic drum. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2015; 86(5):440–444.
Validation of a Portable, Touch-Screen Psychomotor Vigilance Test
Authors: Honn Kimberly A. , Riedy Samantha M. , Grant Devon A.
Published: July 2015

INTRODUCTION: The Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) measures effects of fatigue from sleep loss and circadian misalignment on sustained vigilance performance. To promote PVT use in field environments, a 5-min PVT version has been implemented on a personal digital assistant (PDA)
with a touch screen. The present laboratory study was conducted to validate this PVT against a standard 10-min laptop PVT across 38 h of total sleep deprivation (TSD).METHODS: Following a baseline sleep night, subjects underwent 38 h of TSD, during which they performed the PVT every
hour, alternating between the two test platforms. The study concluded with a night of recovery sleep.RESULTS: The primary outcome was the number of PVT lapses (reaction times > 500 ms). Both PVT platforms showed significant effects for the number of lapses across TSD test times
involving an increase with time awake modulated by circadian rhythm. Laptop PVT lapses across test times exhibited a large effect size (f2 = 0.36), whereas PDA PVT lapses exhibited a medium effect size (f2 = 0.17). The laptop PVT showed a significant effect for the number
of false starts during TSD similar to the temporal profile of lapses, while the PDA PVT had false starts throughout the TSD period.DISCUSSION: The 5-min PDA PVT provided performance testing functionality and results comparable to the 10-min laptop PVT. The number of PDA PVT lapses
tracked fatigue similarly to the laptop PVT lapses, albeit with smaller average ranges and effect sizes.Honn KA, Riedy SM, Grant DA. Validation of a portable, touch-screen psychomotor vigilance test. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2015; 86(5):428–434.
Medical Symptoms Among Pilots Associated with Work and Home Environments: A 3-Year Cohort Study
Authors: Fu Xi , Lindgren Torsten , Norbäck Dan
Published: July 2015

OBJECTIVE: To study associations between the cockpit environment, psychosocial work environment, home environment, and medical symptoms in a cohort of commercial pilots followed over 3 yr.METHODS: A standardized questionnaire was mailed in February-March 1997 to all
Stockholm-based pilots on duty in a Scandinavian flight company (N = 622); 577 (93%) participated. During this time smoking was allowed on long haul flights, but not on shorter flights. Smoking was prohibited on all flights after September 1997. The same questionnaire was sent to the
cohort of 577 pilots in February-March 2000; 436 participated (76%). The questionnaire contained questions on symptoms, the psychosocial work environment, and the home environment. Associations were investigated using multiple logistic and ordinal regression.RESULTS: Symptoms were
common, especially eye symptoms (38.5%), nose symptoms (39.9%), and tiredness (29.9%). Pilots exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on long haul flights had more eye symptoms (odds ratio = 1.91) and tiredness (odds ratio = 2.73). These symptoms were reduced when no longer exposed to
ETS. Those who started working on long haul flights developed more nose symptoms. Pilots reporting increased work demands developed more nose and dermal symptoms and tiredness and those with decreased work control developed more eye symptoms. Pilots living in new houses, multifamily houses,
and in recently painted homes reported more symptoms.CONCLUSION: Eliminating ETS exposure on board reduced medical symptoms. Further work to reduce ETS exposure globally is needed. Psychosocial aspects of the work environment for commercial pilots should be considered, as well as
the home environment.Fu X, Lindgren T, Norbäck D. Medical symptoms among pilots associated with work and home environments: a 3-year cohort study. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2015; 86(5):458–465.
AsMA Medical Guidelines for Air Travel: Stresses of Flight
Authors: Thibeault Claude , Evans Anthony D.
Published: July 2015

INTRODUCTION: Medical Guidelines for Airline Travel provide information that enables healthcare providers to properly advise patients who plan to travel by air. Modern commercial aircraft are very safe and, in most cases, reasonably comfortable. However, all flights, short or
long haul, impose stresses on passengers. Preflight stresses include airport commotion on the ground such as carrying baggage, walking long distances, getting to the gate on time, and being delayed. In-flight stresses include acceleration, vibration (including turbulence), noise, lowered barometric
pressure, variations of temperature and humidity, and fatigue among others. Healthy passengers normally tolerate these stresses quite well; however, there is the potential for passengers to become ill during or after the flight due to these stresses, especially for those with pre-existing
medical conditions and reduced physiological reserves.Thibeault C, Evans AD. AsMA medical guidelines for air travel: stresses of flight. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2015; 86(5):486–487.
Seigneur Jehan Florent de le Porte, mayeur de Saint-Omer (1305-1315) et ses exploitations rurales
Authors: Derville Alain
Published: July 2015

Geboren in de illustre familie van de Florents, wil Jean Florent, genaamd de le Porte om hem te onderscheiden van zijn neven, de Florents heren van Mametz, een korte (1290-1315) maar schitte- rende loopbaan : hij was burgemeester van Saint-Omer in 1305, 1313 en 1315. Hij is ook een zeer groot houthandelaar. Na hem speelt zijn geslacht geen vooraanstaande roi meer : deze ondergang werd veroorzaakt door een aantal factoren o.a. de haat voor het andere grote geslacht van Saint- Omer, de familie Sainte- Aldegonde. In 1302 werd Jean Florent voor een onbekende misdaad veroordeeld en werden zijn goederen op het land door de graaf van Artois in beslag genomen. De rekeningen van de tijdelijke beheerder (van 22 januari tot 31 October 1302) laten niet toe de balans van het jaar 1301-1302 op te maken, maar geven wel belangrijke aanduidingen over de toestand van de landbouw en van het transport wezen, over het niveau van lonen en prijzen in deze période waa- rover men zo slecht gedocumenteerd is.
L'inventaire après décès d'Ysabel Malet, bourgeoise douaisienne, en 1359. Document pour servir à l'histoire de la vie quotidienne de la bourgeoisie médiévale
Authors: Deregnaucourt Jean-Pierre
Published: July 2015

«Inventories after death as proofs of truth...» (F. Braudel, Civ. Mat. et Cap. , Paris, p. 212) ; that of Ysabel Malet confirms this opinion. It enabled us to venture into a mode of living, to discover the luxuries and everyday facts of a whole life. Chests let out an affluence of coins, jewels, clothes, underwear, dishes, linen ; the utensils and furniture set up a medieval home in which we can even visit the attic and we can go through the housewife's account-books without scruple. Revenues seem to be plentiful : lands and houses provide for them generously. The whole story of wealth, the whole story of a life are to be found there. Who might complain about it ? Neither the historian nor the linguist because those inventories after death also have a great lexical interest.
Notes sur l'Église et les Lapons au moyen âge
Authors: Maillefer Jean-Marie
Published: July 2015

Au moyen âge, les limites des royaumes de Suède et de Norvège étaient mal définies dans le nord de la péninsule Scandinave et aucune des deux monarchies ne contrôlait l'intérieur du Finmark, territoire des Lapons païens. Cette réalité géographique n'est cependant pas suffisante pour expliquer que les efforts faits par l'Église pour convertir les Lapons furent rares et tardifs. Une telle attitude n'évolua rapidement qu'à l'aube des Temps modernes.
La perte de Lille (1708) tournée en dérision
Authors: Delesalle Christian
Published: July 2015

Il y a encore des découvertes à faire dans les archives municipales de Lille ; le temps y a toujours manqué pour établir un inventaire détaillé. Témoin ce texte, perdu au milieu de pièces très différentes, où un plaisantin anonyme suggère aux vainqueurs et aux vaincus du siège de Lille (celui où Louis XIV a perdu momentanément la ville, l'espace de cinq ans), des clauses burlesques pour la capitulation à rédiger. Apparemment insensible au sérieux de l'événement, l'anonyme n'y voit que l'occasion d'aligner des gaudrioles. Mais de quel côté faut-il le situer ? Habitant de la ville ? Français ? Allié ? Catholique ? Protestant ! Occasion pour le lecteur d'exercer sa sagacité tout en appréciant quelques saillies assez drôles.
Les silos à grains du haut moyen âge en Cambrésis
Authors: Florin Bernard
Published: July 2015

Les trois silos présentés dans cet article font partie d'un ensemble important qui a nécessité trois années de fouilles. Un travail de synthèse est en cours de publication.

Le site de Les Rues des Vignes, aujourd'hui préservé après de multiples interventions, devait être détruit par la construction de maisons individuelles.

La fouille peut donc se poursuivre dans d'excellentes conditions, non plus dans le cadre d'un sauvetage avec tous les inconvénients que cela comporte mais en programme en employant les méthodes appropriées à ce genre de recherche.
Les pavements de l'abbatiale de Fontenelle à Maing
Authors: Beaussart Philippe , Maliet Vincent
Published: July 2015

C'est en avril 1977, lors de l'aménagement d'un bassin de décharge pour le dragage de l'Escaut, que furent subitement exhumés les vestiges de l'abbaye cistercienne de Fontenelle, à Maing, près de Valenciennes. Les travaux archéologiques de 1977 commencés conjointement par les équipes de Saint-Amand, Denain et Valenciennes, avec l'appui du Service des fouilles, ont permis de dégager certaines structures abbatiales, principalement celles de l'église dont il fut possible de dresser un plan. La subdivision de l'église, et particulièrement celle du vaisseau central, est confirmée par les ruptures du décor apparaissant dans l'ordonnance des pavements. Les pavements de Fontenelle, notamment ceux du type I, confirment l'usage local des « mosaïques » dont l'utilisation aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles reste fréquente, même après l'introduction des carreaux bicolores. En ce qui concerne la datation, l'utilisation des types I et II à Fontenelle remonterait à la fin du XIIIe siècle ou à la première moitié du siècle suivant. L'on peut penser qu'ils furent fabriqués dans un atelier Valenciennois.
Le trésor de Bergues (janvier 1911)
Authors: Dhénin Michel
Published: July 2015

The treasury found in January 1911 in Bergues (Nord, Dunkirk district) included 192 gold coins. The 81 kept in the Bergues Museum are here described and photographed. These coins bear the effigies of Charles V (1), and of Brabant (12), of Philip II of Flanders (14), Brabant (10), Gueldre (7), Holland (12) and Spain (2), of Louis XI (2), Louis XII (2), and Francis I (3), kings of France (together with one undetermined crown), and of Edard IV (4), Henry VII (6) and Henry VIII (5), kings of England. The gathering of these coins may be dated around 1562-1577, and it may have been abandonned during the 1583 siege.
Sixteen polymorphic microsatellite markers for a federally threatened species, Hexastylis naniflora (Aristolochiaceae), and co‐occurring congeners
Authors: Hamstead Jacqueline W. , Snider Brandon L. , Oaks Robyn , Fitzgerald Evan , Woodward Jason , Teat Alyssa , Hay Nikolai M. , Estep Matt C. , Murrell Zack E.
Published: July 2015

Premise of the study:

Twenty microsatellite loci were developed for the federally threatened species Hexastylis naniflora (Aristolochiaceae) to examine genetic diversity and to distinguish this species from co‐occurring congeners, H. heterophylla and H. minor.

Methods and Results:

Next‐generation sequencing approaches were used to identify microsatellite loci and design primers. One hundred fifty‐two primer pairs were screened for repeatability, and 20 of these were further characterized for polymorphism. In H. naniflora, the number of alleles identified for polymorphic loci ranged from two to 23 (mean ∼8.8), with a mean heterozygosity of 0.39.

Conclusions:

These 16 polymorphic primers for H. naniflora will be useful tools in species identification and quantifying genetic diversity within the genus.
A Rule’s Progress: Reordering in Swiss German
Authors: Niepokuj Mary
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 287-293
Assertions from Discourse Structure
Authors: Mann William C. , Thompson Sandra A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 245-258
From Comparative to Relativizer: The Case of Iceland Sem
Authors: Kemmer Suzanne E.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 296-306
Identifiability and Null Objects in Chamorro
Authors: Chung Sandra
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 116-130
Intonational Signals of Subordination
Authors: Bolinger Dwight
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 401-413
Irrealis Subordinate Clauses and Related Constructions in Itza Maya
Authors: Hofling Charles A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 596-608
Linguistic Advance and Cognitive Style in Language Acquisition
Authors: Vihman Marilyn May , Carpenter Kathie
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 386-400
On the Borders of Subordination: Signaling Relative Clauses in Spoken German
Authors: Schuetze-Coburn Stephan
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 650-659
On the Conceptual Link between Clauses I and II of the Extended Projection Principle
Authors: Rothstein Susan D.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 266-273
Performative Subordinate Clauses
Authors: Lakoff George
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 472-480
The Kind Of/Sort Of Construction
Authors: Kay Paul
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 157-171
The Semantic Basis of Syntactic Properties
Authors: Dixon R. M. W.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 583-595
The Syntactic Status of Object Possessor Raising in Western Muskogean
Authors: Munro Pamela
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 634-649
“Subordination” in Universal Grammar
Authors: Haiman John , Thompson Sandra A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 510-523
Transitivity and Valence: Some Lexical Processes in Marwari
Authors: Magier David
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 206-219
A Unified View of Topic
Authors: Van Oosten Jeanne
Published: July 2015

A Unified View of Topic
Constraining the Application of Erasure Rules: Evidence from Conjunction Reduction
Authors: Janis Wynne
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 146-163
Degrees of Stress in Russian Versification
Authors: Klenin Emily
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 459-470
Early Welsh Metrics and the Indo-European Poetic Tradition
Authors: Sweetser Eve E.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 505-518
Formulaic Patterns in the Maya Script
Authors: Macri Martha J.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 216-225
From Tonal to Accentual: Fuzhou Tone Sandhi Revisited
Authors: Shih Chi-Lin
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 316-326
How to Describe Inflection
Authors: Zwicky Arnold M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 372-386
Improving Tree Theory
Authors: Prince Alan S.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 471-490
Intonation, Stress and Meaning
Authors: Selkirk Elisabeth O.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 491-504
Japanese Sentence-Final Particles as Commitment Markers
Authors: Kendall Sue Ann
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 164-174
The Directionality of Agreement
Authors: Nichols Johanna
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 273-286
The History of the Prepositional Passive in English
Authors: Thornburg Linda
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 327-336
When Speakers Write
Authors: Mithun Marianne
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 259-272
Where Have All the Adjectives Come From? The Case of Cherokee
Authors: Lindsey Geoffrey , Scancarelli Janine
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 207-215
Why All Languages Aren’t SOV or VOS, or How Competing Motivations Lead to Natural Inconsistency
Authors: Dayley Jon
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 52-64
Classifiers, Verb Classifiers, and Verbal Categories
Authors: Silverstein Michael
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 497-514
Clefts, Discourse Representations, and Situation Semantics
Authors: Gawron Jean Marc
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 135-146
CV- versus X-Notation: A Formal Comparison
Authors: Waksler Rachelle
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 271-282
Folk Formality
Authors: Tannen Deborah
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 246-260
Evidence for a Strictly Sentence-Internal Antecedent-Finding Mechanism
Authors: Cowart Wayne
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 41-50
From Polysemy to Internal Semantic Reconstruction
Authors: Traugott Elizabeth Closs
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 539-550
Levels of Grammatical Relations and Russian Reflexive Controllers
Authors: Schwartz Linda
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 235-245
Phonemes as Mental Categories
Authors: Nathan Geoffrey S.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 212-223
Polyadicity of Three Verbs Associated with Bloodletting Rituals in Western Glyphic Maya
Authors: Macri Martha J.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 186-194
Pragmatic Roles in Cherokee Grammar
Authors: Scancarelli Janine
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 224-234
Pragmatically Controlled Zero Anaphora
Authors: Fillmore Charles J.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 95-107
Productivity and Pragmatics of Thai Classifiers
Authors: Carpenter Kathie
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 14-25
Some Theoretical Consequences of Dutch Complementizer Agreement
Authors: Hoeksema Jack
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 147-158
Stress and Vowel Harmony Domains in Turkish
Authors: Dobrovolsky Michael
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 61-71
The Development of Subordinators from Postpositions In Bodic Languages
Authors: Genetti Carol
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 387-400
The Rise and Fall of Tones Through Diffusion
Authors: Li Charles N.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 173-185
‘Overlay Structures’ in the Song of Roland: A Discourse-Pragmatic Strategy of Oral Narrative
Authors: Fleischman Suzanne
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1986), pp. 108-123
A Vowel-Lowering Rule in Kui-Kuvi
Authors: Krishnamurti Bh.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 495-506
An Etymological Door to Synergetic Structures
Authors: Schwartz Martin
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 423-436
Perception and the Choice of Language in Oral Narrative: The Case of the Co-Temporal Connectives
Authors: Silva Marilyn N.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 284-294
Piman Song Syntax: Its Historical Significance
Authors: Shaul David L.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 275-283
The Abstract Consonant in Seri
Authors: Marlett Stephen A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 154-165
The Semantics of Spontaneity in Japanese
Authors: Jacobsen Wesley
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 104-115
Voice in Fictional Discourse
Authors: Roberts Hilary
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 265-274
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Linguistic Importance
Authors: Hunold Karen Ann
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 93-103
“Yes, He Hasn’t” and a Few Other Not’s in Turkish
Authors: Tura Sabahat Sansa
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 317-327
Affectiveness and the Voice System of Japanese: Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back
Authors: Klaiman M. H.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Conditional for Subjunctive in Old Castile
Authors: Silva-Corvalán Carmen
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Folk Stereotypes and Sociolinguistics: Blason Populaire in the San Francisco Bay Area
Authors: Dürmüller Urs
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Governed Anaphors in Basque
Authors: Azkarate D. , Ortiz de Urbina J. , Saltarelli M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Lexical Diffusion in Hong Kong Cantonese: “Five” Leads the Way
Authors: Bauer Robert S.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Lexical Functions in Lexicographic Description
Authors: Mel’cuk Igor A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Major Information from a “Minor Parameter”: Point of Contact in Sign Language Phonology
Authors: Mandel Mark A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Near-Homonymy as a Determinant of Lexical Retention and Loss: The Case of Hispano-Romance despejar
Authors: Walsh Thomas J.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Promotion and Topicality of Nez Perce Objects
Authors: Rude Noel
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Proto-Mon Registers: Two, Three, Four…?
Authors: Diffloth Gérard
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Two Spanish Etymologies: ajilimójili and cháncharras máncharras
Authors: Pharies David A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Vendler’s Verb Classes and the Aspectual Character of Japanese
Authors: Jacobsen Wesley M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Passive and Inversion in Kannada
Authors: Dryer Matthew S.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Semantic Perspicuity and the Locative Hypothesis
Authors: Gee James Paul , Kegl Judy Anne
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Semantics and Logical Form
Authors: DeCarrico Jaenette S.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
The Impersonal Passive in Lithuanian
Authors: Timberlake Alan
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Agentivity and Causation: Data from Newari
Authors: DeLancey Scott
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 54-63
How Do You Say 'It' In Russian?
Authors: Channon Robert
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 292-300
Indirect Object Advancement in German
Authors: Wilkinson Edwin M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 281-291
Morphological Innovation and Subgrouping: Some Tibeto-Burman Notes
Authors: Thurgood Graham
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 257-265
On Direct and Oblique Cases
Authors: Nichols Johanna
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 170-192
Processing of Linguistic Stress in the Damaged Left and Right Hemisphere
Authors: Solomon James R.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 245-256
Social Organization and Referential Coherence in Classroom Discussions
Authors: Collins James
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 10-24
Functional Reasons for the Fall and Rise of V-S Structures in French: A Quantitative Approach
Authors: O'Connor Nadine
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 193-201
Bengali Conjunctive Participle Constructions
Authors: Klaiman M. H.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 138-147
Making Lemonade Out of Life’s Lemons: A View Into the World of Aging With Parkinson’s Disease
Authors: Greer Danice B. , Hermanns Melinda , Cooper Cheryl M.
Published: July 2015

Pictures can aid in understanding individual perspectives of an experience. Photovoice, a visual elicitation research approach, was used to engage nine participants with Parkinson’s disease in taking photographs that, for them, represented important aspects of living with the disease. Participants’ descriptions of their photographs revealed perspectives that can be theoretically linked to two psychosocial stages of development: (a) generativity versus stagnation and (b) integrity versus despair. Clear examples of generativity and integrity were present in participants’ responses, reflecting determination and optimism in living with the disease. Findings highlight the need to seek understanding of patients’ individual experiences of living with an illness so it is not falsely assumed that they are not adjusting or managing their disease. [
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 53
(7), 20–23.]
Psychosocial Effects of Health Disparities of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults
Authors: Zelle Andraya , Arms Tamatha
Published: July 2015

The 1.5 million older adults who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) are expected to double in number by 2030. Research suggests that health disparities are closely linked with societal stigma, discrimination, and denial of civil and human rights. More LGBT older adults struggle with depression, substance abuse, social isolation, and acceptance compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Despite individual preferences, most health care providers recognize the right of any individual to have access to basic medical services. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires that all hospitals receiving funds from Medicare and Medicaid respect visitation and medical decision-making rights to all individuals identifying as LGBT. The Joint Commission also requires a non-discrimination statement for accreditation. The current literature review examines LGBT health disparities and the consequential psychosocial impact on LGBT older adults as well as brings awareness to the needs of this underserved and underrepresented population. [
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 53
(7), 25–30.]
Operational understanding of the covariance of classical electrodynamics
Authors: Gömöri Márton , Szabó László E.
Published: July 2015

It is common in the literature on classical electrodynamics and relativity theory that the transformation rules for the basic electrodynamic quantities are derived from the pre-assumption that the equations of electrodynamics are covariant against these—unknown—transformation
rules. There are several problems to be raised concerning these derivations. This is, however, not our main concern in this paper. Even if these derivations are regarded as unquestionable, they leave open the following fundamental question: Are the so-obtained transformation rules indeed identical
with the true transformation laws of the empirically ascertained electrodynamic quantities? This is of course an empirical question. In this paper, we will answer this question in a purely theoretical framework by applying what Bell calls “Lorentzian pedagogy”—according to
which the laws of physics in any one reference frame account for all physical phenomena, including what a moving observer must see when performs measurement operations with moving measuring devices. We will show that the real transformation laws are indeed identical with the ones obtained
by presuming the covariance of the equations of electrodynamics, and that the covariance is indeed satisfied. Beforehand, however, we need to clarify the operational definitions of the fundamental electrodynamic quantities. As we will see, these semantic issues are not as trivial as one might
think.
A classical electrodynamic theory of the nucleus
Authors: Lucas Charles W. , Baxter Eric C. , Boudreaux Edward A. , Rydin Roger A.
Published: July 2015

A new phenomenological model of the nucleus has been constructed by separately modeling a proton and a neutron using a classical electromagnetic approach first suggested by Arthur Compton and later elaborated from plasma physics experiments conducted by his student, Winston Bostick.
Using these two nucleon representations, different nuclei are arranged by placing neutrons and protons in static geometric positions, where the force balance has minimum energy. These positions have been verified numerically using a variational minimization technique. This suggests that mechanical
vibration is a valid physical mechanism for decay. For the first time, the pattern of all the magic number closed nucleon-shells is accurately predicted, and new magic numbers have been found. These numbers have been verified against experimental data. The masses of all individual isotopes
that were calculated are in agreement with the measured values within less than a tenth of a percent, thus mimicking the experimentally measured binding energy per nucleon curve. An extension of this idea to model electrons in atoms also predicts the pattern of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
The principle of greatest freedom
Authors: Battisti Sylvain
Published: July 2015

Elementary particles are the common capital of any being in the universe. However, a being is characterized by its behavior as well as its capital and the principle of least action shows the common behavior of partners that transfer energy. However, the concept of action does not apply
to all transfers; what is the action when two men transfer words? Here we show that the “principle of greatest freedom” reveals the common behavior of any partner during nondestructive relationship that is to maximize the number of its accessible states, i.e., its freedom. It gives
a common interpretation to quantum mechanics, to wave-particle duality and to relativity. It defines the coherent relationship, which explains why objects behave consistently according to laws and why they construct compound beings that evolve.
Proposed test of the Schwarzschild metric
Authors: Phipps Thomas E.
Published: July 2015

A test of the Schwarzschild metric, as well as of the metric concept of “spacetime,” which has never been verified directly, is easily conceptualized, although less easily effectuated. The test proposed here envisions accurate timing measurements of order <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
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satellites similar to those of the Global Positioning System.
The Integration of Information and Communication Technology in Schools
Authors: Pires Elisabete , Moreira Fernando
Published: July 2015

Youngsters today grow in an environment of technological development but, nevertheless, exhibit unknowns regarding aspects relating to the use of these tools in a productive way, as regards the aspects relating to safety and correct use. The integration of technology in schools has thus increased responsibilities by the need to incorporate these developments safely and at the service of education. At a time when the concept of use of technology is seen as a skill rather than a tool, the challenges faced by the school administration and teachers are great and they try to resolve through some of the available resources and new business developments. However, much remains to be studied and developed. This chapter aims to present some perspectives of this scenario. It also presents a study conducted in some schools, and some developments that are being considered in this area.
Ubiquitous Integration Architectural Issues
Authors: Henriques João , Tomé Paulo
Published: July 2015

The paradigm of heterogeneous systems has been demanding the implementation of new approaches to ensure the organizational operations as a whole. This chapter proposes a new integration model architecture, supported by research in an organization with great needs at integration systems level which can be applied to any situation, based on the execution of instructions transmitted between systems. The new architecture sustains the interoperability process between different systems that can be applied in an environment populated by heterogeneous systems and is supported by the use XML language. To this architecture contributed decisively different integration experiences and concepts provided by SAP R/3.
Tourism Time Series Forecast
Authors: Teixeira João Paulo , Fernandes Paula Odete
Published: July 2015

In this chapter four combinations of input features and the feedforward, cascade forward and recurrent architectures are compared for the task of forecast tourism time series. The input features of the ANNs consist in the combination of the previous 12 months, the index time modeled by two nodes used to the year and month and one input with the daily hours of sunshine (insolation duration). The index time features associated to the previous twelve values of the time series proved its relevance in this forecast task. The insolation variable can improved results with some architectures, namely the cascade forward architecture. Finally, the experimented ANN models/architectures produced a mean absolute percentage error between 4 and 6%, proving the ability of the ANN models based to forecast this time series. Besides, the feedforward architecture behaved better considering validation and test sets, with 4.2% percentage error in test set.
Concepts for the Design of a Manager-Centric Global Decision Support System for Organizations
Authors: Garrido Paulo
Published: July 2015

The goal of this chapter is to describe a set of concepts for the design of information systems supporting the global decision process in an organization from a management point of view. Managers are responsible for decisions that are crucial for the success of the organization. Supporting decision taking by management in an integrated way means to support the global decision process of the organization and increase its efficiency and resilience. The system is envisaged so that i) each manager has available a decision dashboard to support the flux of decision-making for which he or she is responsible; ii) the dashboards also allow managers to crowdsource from non-managers different aspects of decision iii) the dashboards are connected in a conversational network; iv) this conversational network is so structured to support the global decision process of the organization.
Semantic Integration Framework for Resources Identification
Authors: Pragosa Miguel , Basto-Fernandes Vitor , Oliveira Luísa
Published: July 2015

The global adoption of information technology systems throughout all activity domains lead to the existence of a huge amount of information systems unable to interoperate, first of all, because of different ways of identifying resources. Different transport and application level protocols for data exchange also raise some interoperability difficulties. Common interoperability scenarios rely on tightly controlled, specific communities of information technology islands. In this chapter we present and discuss the usage of lexical, syntactic and semantic lexical technologies to address interoperability problems at the product identification level, in the context of food consumption analysis.
Green Specifications
Authors: Schulze Thomas , Atkinson Colin
Published: July 2015

Green specifications provide a foundation for reducing the environmental impact of computing applications and improving the consumption behavior of users by providing a clear and precise specification of the environmental impact of specific services. They can either be used to specify the actual behavior and environmental impact of existing services or to define the requirements that a to-be-built service must fulfill. Green specifications describe the properties of a service from distinct viewpoints such as a structural viewpoint which describes the data types and external components that the service uses, a functional viewpoint which describes the effects of the service's operations using pre- and post- conditions and a behavioral viewpoint which describes the externally visible states and transitions exhibited by the service. These are augmented with non-functional information describing the environmental properties of, or constraints on, the service. In this chapter we provide an introduction to green specifications and give a concrete example of their use to specify a Video on Demand (VoD) service.
Green Cloud Computing with Efficient Resource Allocation Approach
Authors: Cao Fei , Zhu Michelle M. , Wu Chase Q.
Published: July 2015

Due to the increasing deployment of data centers around the globe escalated by the higher electricity price, the energy cost on running the computing, communication and cooling together with the amount of CO2 emissions have skyrocketed. In order to maintain sustainable Cloud computing facing with ever-increasing problem complexity and big data size in the next decades, this chapter presents vision and challenges for energy-aware management of Cloud computing environments. We design and develop energy-aware scientific workflow scheduling algorithm to minimize energy consumption and CO2 emission while still satisfying certain Quality of Service (QoS). Furthermore, we also apply Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and DNS scheme to further reduce energy consumption within acceptable performance bounds. The effectiveness of our algorithm is evaluated under various performance metrics and experimental scenarios using software adapted from open source CloudSim simulator.
Survey on Multi-Objective Routing Optimization in Ad Hoc Networks
Authors: Bouamoud Bachir , Habbani Ahmed
Published: July 2015

The chapter presents a survey on multi-objective routing issues to solve the problem of optimal path according to resources requirement or QoS preferences especially energy conservation. In the present work, we draw the set of uniformly and not uniformly improvable routing objective, highlight dependencies between them and what are the effects of that on establishing the objectives functions and how it can contribute to energy conservation and state of art of different multi-objective routing problem resolution techniques applied in ad hoc network context. Many methods developed with different answers to these questions are present in the literature; some of them are discussed here.