cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Charge distribution and radii in clusters from nuclear pasta models
Creators: name: Perez-Garcia, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the consistency of the description of charge distributions and radii of nuclear clusters obtained with semiclassical nuclear pasta models. These nuclei are expected to exist in the low density outer crust of neutron stars. Properties of the arising clusterized nucleon matter can be compared to realistic nuclear properties as experimentally extracted on earth. We focus on non iso-symmetric light clusters with nucleon number $8 \le A \le 30$ and use Monte Carlo many-body techniques. We simulate isotopic chains for a set of selected nuclei using a model Hamiltonian consisting of the usual kinetic term, hadronic nucleon nucleon (NN), Coulomb and an effective density dependent Pauli potential. It is shown that for neutron rich (deficient) clusters neutron (proton) skins develop. Different (matter, neutron, proton, electric charge) radii are computed for this set of non iso-symmetric nuclei. Nuclear binding energies are also analyzed in the isotopic chains.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 3 of Can pre-trained convolutional neural networks be directly used as a feature extractor for video-based neonatal sleep and wake classification?
Creators: name: Awais, Muhammad
name: Long, Xi
name: Yin, Bin
name: Chen, Chen
name: Akbarzadeh, Saeed
name: Abbasi, Saadullah Farooq
name: Irfan, Muhammad
name: Lu, Chunmei
name: Wang, Xinhua
name: Wang, Laishuan
name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Neonatal sleep and wake states classification results using Fluke® multiple colors palattes, statistical results achieved using multiple color palettes such as amber, high contrast, red-blue, hot metal, and grayscale.
Looking Into the Fireball: ROTSE-III and Swift Observations of Early GRB Afterglows
Creators: name: Rykoff, E. S.
name: Aharonian, F.
name: Akerlof, C. W.
name: Ashley, M. C. B.
name: Barthelmy, S. D.
name: Flewelling, H. A.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Gogus, E.
name: Guver, T.
name: Kiziloglu, U.
name: Krimm, H. A.
name: McKay, T. A.
name: Ozel, M.
name: Phillips, A.
name: Quimby, R. M.
name: Rowell, G.
name: Rujopakarn, W.
name: Schaefer, B. E.
name: Smith, D. A.
name: Vestrand, W. T.
name: Wheeler, J. C.
name: Wren, J.
name: Yuan, F.
name: Yost, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a complete set of early optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) obtained with the ROTSE-III telescope network from March 2005 through June 2007. This set is comprised of 12 afterglows with early optical and Swift/XRT observations, with a median ROTSE-III response time of 45 s after the start of gamma-ray emission (8 s after the GCN notice time). These afterglows span four orders of magnitude in optical luminosity, and the contemporaneous X-ray detections allow multi-wavelength spectral analysis. Excluding X-ray flares, the broadband synchrotron spectra show that the optical and X-ray emission originate in a common region, consistent with predictions of the external forward shock in the fireball model. However, the fireball model is inadequate to predict the temporal decay indices of the early afterglows, even after accounting for possible long-duration continuous energy injection. We find that the optical afterglow is a clean tracer of the forward shock, and we use the peak time of the forward shock to estimate the initial bulk Lorentz factor of the GRB outflow, and find 100
description: 31 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ
On predication, derivation and anti-locality
Creators: name: Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: This paper pursues the question what the implications of the Anti-Locality Hypothesis could be for the syntax of secondary predication. Focus of the discussion will be an investigation of what their internal structure of small clause complements must look like, how these small clause complements connect to their matrix environments, and what the relevance could be for the formulation of anti-locality presented here. Anti-locality is defined over a tripartite clause structure (split into three Prolific Domains) and a PF-condition on the computation (the Condition on Domain-Exclusivity). The investigation revolves around two leading questions: (i) does the syntax of small clauses involve more structure than simply [SC DP XP] and (ii) do small clauses constitute their own Prolific Domain (or maybe even more)? The results, affirmative answers to both questions, are also relevant for other types of secondary predication.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 26 (2001): Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov 2-3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin
Una convincente riproposta dell'uso del Coro nella poetica euripidea Lettura drammaturgica di Fenicie (Inda, 2017)
Creators: name: Cuscunà, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fenicie
Euripides
Binasco
Aeschylus
Inda
Theatre
Syracuse

description: The article explains how director Valerio Binasco managed to syncretize modern sensitiveness, while preserving Euripidean poetry. The Chorus, untied from the core of the plot, suggests the idea of a multi-cultural context like the title itself means and underlines. This choice is respected by Binasco in his interpretation of the Aeschylean play. Despite the fact that a few moments may seem parodical, precisely during these scenes we experience a persuasive research of Euripides’ thought about humanity: as Aristotle suggests, Euripides tries to devise his characters as they are, and not as they should be. The challenge, in this performance, is successful.
Forming Relationships in Digital Humanities
Creators: name: LIBER Digital Humanities Working Group
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: digital, humanities, relationships

description: Digital Humanities (DH) is a collaborative discipline. Libraries engaging in this field must build connections with DH research communities to be successful. Our below illustration demonstrates 10 ways in which libraries can build such relationships and points to various useful readings on this topic.
Every Large Point Set contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon
Creators: name: Abel, Zachary
name: Ballinger, Brad
name: Bose, Prosenjit
name: Collette, Sébastien
name: Dujmović, Vida
name: Hurtado, Ferran
name: Kominers, Scott D.
name: Langerman, Stefan
name: Pór, Attila
name: Wood, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 52C10, 05D10

description: We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem: for every integer $\ell \geq 2$, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains $\ell$ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the "big line or big clique" conjecture of Kára, Pór, and Wood [\emph{Discrete Comput. Geom.} 34(3):497--506, 2005].
syntax of depictives: subjects, modes of judgement and I-L/S-L properties
Creators: name: Ardid-Gumiel, Ana
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: In this work, I provide an analysis of adjectival depictive constructions which accounts for most of their fundamental properties. First, I focus on the restrictions having to do with the integration of the depictive and the verbal predicate: they are based on aspectual compatibility between the two predicates, which, in turn, will depend on the ability, on the part of the depictive, to make reference to some (sub)event in the event structure of the verbal predicate. Facts not captured by previous approaches in the literature will be straightforwardly accounted for, among them the possibility to have I-L depictive constructions, and the impossibility to combine a depictive with some non-stative verbal predicates. Second, it will be shown that the informational import of the depictive in the sentence can be equivalent to that of the verbal predicate: both can be the primary lexical basis of predication. This is reflected in the sentence in various ways, having to do with aspectual modifiers, and in the properties of the sentential subject. In this connection, we will reconsider the notion of subject, arguing that no subject-predicate relation takes place in the lexical domain of sentences, and hence that the argument the depictive is oriented to, the common argument, cannot be a subject of the depictive. Finally, a minimalist analysis is proposed for the syntax of the construction, in terms of direct syntactic merge of predicative constituents and sidewards (q-to-q) movement for the common argument, from the lexical domain of the depictive to the lexical domain of the verb. As to morphosyntactic properties, a syntactic Double Agree relation is assumed to hold between T/v, as probes, on the one hand, and the common argument and depictive, as simultaneous goals, on the other, which would allow for the deletion of Case features on both goals. The assumed presence of Structural Case on the adjectival depictive will be responsible for the well-known restriction on the orientation of depictives to the sentential subject or object.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 26 (2001): Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov 2-3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin
Disharmonic Headedness in Homeric Greek and Tocharian
Creators: name: Windhearn, Ryan
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: This paper builds upon recent syntactic reconstruction literature both by suggesting that the featural composition of syntactic functional heads can be reconstructed without an accompanying reconstructible phonological form, and by showing that certain types of innovation can inform reconstruction, at least in the syntactic domain. Using this innovation-driven reconstruction, I propose that Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was disharmonically headed in CP and TP, based on innovated complementizer and auxiliary construction data from six of the earliest-attested Indo-European daughter languages.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Transport and localization in periodic and disordered graphene superlattices
Creators: name: Bliokh, Yury P.
name: Freilikher, Valentin
name: Savel'ev, Sergey
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the direction perpendicular to the layers, the eigenstates in a disordered sample are delocalized for all energies and provide a minimal non-zero conductivity, which cannot be destroyed by disorder, no matter how strong this is. However, along with extended states, there exist discrete sets of angles and energies with exponentially localized eigenfunctions (disorder-induced resonances). It is shown that, depending on the type of the unperturbed system, the disorder could either suppress or enhance the transmission. Most remarkable properties of the transmission have been found in graphene systems built of alternating p-n and n-p junctions. This transmission has anomalously narrow angular spectrum and, surprisingly, in some range of directions it is practically independent of the amplitude of fluctuations of the potential. Owing to these features, such samples could be used as building blocks in tunable electronic circuits. To better understand the physical implications of the results presented here, most of our results have been contrasted with those for analogous wave systems. Along with similarities, a number of quite surprising differences have been found.
description: 10 pages
Predication at the interface
Creators: name: Åfarli, Tor A.
name: Eide, Kristin M.
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: We try to show that predication plays a greater role in syntax than commonly assumed. Specifically, we wil argue that predication to a large extent determines both the phrase structure of clauses and trigger syntactic processes that take place in clauses. If we are on the right path, this implies that syntax is basically semantically driven, given that predication is semantically construed.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 26 (2001): Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov 2-3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin
The copula cycle in Kriol
Creators: name: Truppi, Chiara
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: The present paper aims to study the item i in Kriol, the Portuguese-based creole of Guinea-Bissau. More specifically, i is 3SG subject pronoun and also functions as copula in individual-level predication. As a pronoun, i may also occur as resumptive to topic-comment structures. On the basis of the striking similarity between copular clauses with i and topic-comment structures with resumptive i, I will argue that the pronoun i and the copula i are not simple homophones, but represents two different syntactic functions of the very same item. I assume that the copula i derives from the resumptive pronoun i in topic-comment structures. This kind of grammaticalization of the pronoun into a copula, also known as copularization, is well documented in a number of languages. The main goal of the paper will be to reconstruct the path of grammaticalization of the copula i and to provide a syntactic account of it. I will follow Lohndal (2009) in assuming that this kind of grammaticalization, motivated by the ambiguity caused by certain topic-comment structures with resumptive pronoun, corresponds to an economy-oriented structural change: the pronoun shifts from the specifier to the head of the predication phrase (PrP). This shift belongs to the type of structural changes included in Lohndal’s copula cycle. Given that 3SG i is arguably a subject clitic and cannot sit in the specifier of PrP, I will argue, on the basis of Kihm’s (2007) paper, that in the proto-creole that originated Kriol and the other Upper Guinea Creoles, there was a 3SG nonclitic pronoun *ele. It occurred as resumptive to topic-comment structures and was later reanalysed as a copula.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Predication and equation
Creators: name: Adger, David
name: Ramchand, Gillian
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: English is one language where equative sentences and non-equative sentences have a similar surface syntax (but see Heggie 1988 and Moro 1997 for a discussion of more subtle differences). In this paper we address the fact that many other languages appear to use radically different morphological means which seem to map to intuitive differences in the type of predication expressed. We take one such language, Scottish Gaelic, and show that the real difference is not between equative and non-equative sentences, but is rather dependent on whether the predicational head in the structure proposed above is eventive or not. We show that the aparently odd syntax of “equatives” in this language derives from the fact that they are constructed via a non-eventive Pred head. Since Pred heads cannot combine with non-predicative categories, such as saturated DPs, “equatives” are built up indirectly from a simple predicational structure with a semantically bleached predicate. This approach not only allows us to maintain a strict one-to-one syntax/semantics mapping for predicational syntax, but also for the syntax of DPs. The argument we develop here, then, suggests that the interface between the syntactic and semantic components is maximally economical— one could say perfect.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 26 (2001): Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov 2-3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin
Decay of Rabi oscillations by dipolar-coupled dynamical spin environments
Creators: name: Dobrovitski, V. V.
name: Feiguin, A. E.
name: Hanson, R.
name: Awschalom, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Rabi oscillations decay of a spin decohered by a spin bath whose internal dynamics is caused by dipolar coupling between the bath spins. The decay form and rate as a function of the intra-bath coupling is studied analytically, and confirmed numerically. The decay in general has neither exponential/Gaussian or power-law form, and changes non-monotonically with the intra-bath coupling, decelerating for both slow and fast baths. The form and rate of Rabi oscillations decay can be used to experimentally determine the intra-bath coupling strength for a broad class of solid-state systems.
description: 4.3 RevTeX pages, 2 color figures
Exchangeability and sets of desirable gambles
Creators: name: de Cooman, Gert
name: Quaeghebeur, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sets of desirable gambles constitute a quite general type of uncertainty model with an interesting geometrical interpretation. We give a general discussion of such models and their rationality criteria. We study exchangeability assessments for them, and prove counterparts of de Finetti's finite and infinite representation theorems. We show that the finite representation in terms of count vectors has a very nice geometrical interpretation, and that the representation in terms of frequency vectors is tied up with multivariate Bernstein (basis) polynomials. We also lay bare the relationships between the representations of updated exchangeable models, and discuss conservative inference (natural extension) under exchangeability and the extension of exchangeable sequences.
description: 40 pages
Relative clauses in the diachrony of Italian
Creators: name: Sanfelici, Emanuela
name: Poletto, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: This paper investigates relative clauses (RCs) in the diachrony of Italian aiming at shedding light on the syntactic derivation of RCs. Building on Sauerland’s (2003) claim that RCs involve two non-distinct heads, Cinque (2008, 2013) unifies all RCs under a single derivation proposing that the two heads can either be both lexical or both null elements in syntax. When the two heads are lexical expressions, the RC will be lexically-headed, whereas when the heads are null elements, the RC will be headless, and thus a free RC. According to Cinque (2013: ch. 17), languages differ as to which head or which portion of heads they spell out according to the PF requirements available in a language. In some languages the internal head is always deleted at PF, in others it is spelled out, in some others both heads are fully spelled out, whereas in others languages portions of the heads can be spelled out. In this paper we argue that this variation may not be due to PF requirements only, but it depends on the syntactic derivation. We claim that the usual typology of RCs has to be enriched to include another type in which the two heads enter the derivation as distinct elements. The testing ground for our proposal is provided by the history of Italian. We show that, whereas in Modern Italian the two heads must be non-distinct, Old Italian allowed a configuration where the two heads differed, in the sense that the RC-external head could be a lexical expression while the RC-internal head a null element analogue to a free relative. We argue that the variation between Old and Modern Italian depends on the version of the matching relation involved in the Agree relation between the two heads. Whereas in Modern Italian the matching relation is set on its strict version, and thus results in identity between the two heads, in Old Italian matching involved an inclusion relation, thereby allowing the two heads not to be completely identical.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Updating the ICRP'S Recommendations: A Practitioners Perspective
Creators: name: Chambers, Douglas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: non-technical audience
ALARA
LNT
tissue effects

description: The International Commission on Radiological Protection’s (ICRP) system of radiological protection is a cornerstone of international radiation protection practice. The ICRP is embarking on a on a review and revision of the System of Radiological Protection which will consider amongst other factors, changes in science and society. The ICRP has identified a number of areas that will be reviewed ranging from basic concepts to the radiation protection framework itself. As currently written, the ICRP’s documents and recommendations are, in the authors view, a bit opaque. Based on the authors experience in presenting to lay audiences and regulatory panels, this can present a significant challenge in communications. Thus, in addition to the ICRP clarifying a number of technical issues, consideration should be given to providing lay readable summaries of key recommendations. This paper describes examples of challenges experienced by the author in presenting ICRP recommendations to non-technical audiences, among them, the often (mis-) interpretation of the application of the concepts of dose limits, dose constraints, and reference levels. Another area that would benefit from further clarification is the application of the ALARA principle “As Low As Reasonably Achievable, taking social and economic considerations into account” the concept doesn’t mean zero dose but represents a balancing of factors. This paper also discusses a few select items of broad concern in the radiation protection community with respect to either or both the underpinning science and or, clarity of current presentation. Specifically, for purposes of illustration, this paper comments on the following topics. The use of the linear -no-threshold (LNT) dose– response (assumption) as a radiation protection quantity which is important as a pragmatic model that underpins the use of effective dose as a radiation protection quantity. However, at low doses, it may not be possible to measure dose per se and moreover, when the doses are low (by measurement and model), the risks are low and often lost in the noise from background radiation. Potential harm from tissue reactions (previously referred to as deterministic effects) is also discussed and issues illustrated through discussion of dose to the lens of the eye. These issues include amongst others, dosimetric limitations, how do we distinguish between the cataracts that are radiation induced versus the high natural prevalence of cataracts arising simply from the natural process of aging, and observations from recent epidemiologic reviews.
description: License: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 2.5 Generic I would like to leave it blank.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov 2-3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin
Creators: name: Zhang, Niina
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: This volume presents working versions of presentations heard at and selected for the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, held at ZAS, Berlin, on November 2-3, 2001 (except the editor’s own paper). Predication is a many-faceted topic which involves both syntax and semantics and the interface between them. This is reflected in the papers of the volume.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 26 (2001): Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, Nov 2-3, 2001, ZAS-Berlin
Grammaticalization as Decategorization
Creators: name: Saito, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: This paper aims to offer a formal analysis of grammaticalization, focusing on a change with speech verbs. Assuming that speech verbs consist of category-neutral roots and the verbalizer (the category-determining head), I suggest that grammaticalization of speech verbs involves loss of the verbalizer component. The proposed analysis makes a different prediction regarding possible stages/patterns of the grammaticalization in question from other generative analyses, which I argue is desirable. In particular, investigating evidential markers that have developed from speech verbs and operators that induce indexical shift, I argue that these elements are in a stage of grammaticalization predicted to exist under the proposed analysis. I also discuss non-verbal quotative constructions, which can be straightforwardly captured under the proposed analysis.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
About the whereabouts of indefinites
Creators: name: Frey, Werner
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: The paper characterizes three different domains in the German middle field which are relevant for the interpretation of an indefinite. It is argued that the so-called 'strong' reading of an indefinite is the basic one and that the 'weak' reading needs special licensing which is mirrored by certain syntactic requirements. Some popular claims about the relation between the position and the interpretation of indefinites as well as some claims about scrambling are discussed and rejected. From the findings also follows that the strong reading of an indefinite is independent of its information status.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
Deixis, binding and presupposition
Creators: name: Asher, Nicholas
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: Dynamic semantic accounts of presupposition have proven to quite successful improvements over earlier theories. One great advance has been to link presupposition and anaphora together (van der Sandt 92, Geurts 95), an approach that extends to integrate bridging and other discourse phenomena (Asher and Lascarides 1998a,b). In this extended anaphoric account, presuppositions attach, like assertions, to the discourse context via certain rhetorical relations. These discourse attachments constrain accommodation and help avoid some infelicitous predictions of standard accounts of presupposition. Further, they have interesting and complex interactions with underspecified conditions that are an important feature of the contributions of most presupposition triggers. Deictic uses of definites, on the other hand, seem at first glance to fall outside the purview of an anaphoric theory of presupposition. There seems to be little that a discourse based theory would have to say. I will argue, however, that a discourse based account can capture how these definites function in conversation. In particular such accounts can clarify the interaction between the uses of such deictic definites and various conversational moves. At least some deictic uses of definites generate presuppositions that are bound to the context via a rhetorical function that I'll call unchoring, which if successful entails a type of knowing how. If this anchoring function is accepted, then the acceptors know how to locate the referent of the definite in the present context. I'll concentrate here just on definites that refer to spatial locations, where the intuitions about anchoring are quite clear. But I think that this view extends to other deictic uses of definites and has ramifications for an analysis of de re attitudes as well.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
Free Choice Indefinites in Old and Modern Italian
Creators: name: Kellert, Olga
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: This article deals with a specific meaning of Free Choice Indefinites (FCIs) such as qualunque and qualsiasi in Old and Modern Italian. Despite the existent synchronic and diachronic studies of FCIs that focus on the prenominal position as represented in (2) (see Aloni & Port 2013, Chierchia 2006, Stark 2006, Becker 2014, among others), there are no synchronic or diachronic studies focusing on the postnominal position with the evaluative meaning. It is still unclear what distribution postnominal indefinites have in synchrony and diachrony and what the relation between prenominal indefinites with the FC meaning and postnominal indefinites with the evaluative meaning is (see also A&M 2011 on cualquiera in Spanish). In this article, I will try to fill the gap with respect to qualunque and describe its distribution, as well as its syntactic and semantic properties in synchrony and diachrony. My main focus will be answering the question of how Italian qualunque developed an evaluative meaning component and why this interpretation is only available when qualunque is postnominal.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Astronomical site selection: On the use of satellite data for aerosol content monitoring
Creators: name: Varela, A. M.
name: Bertolin, C.
name: Muñoz-Tuñón, C.
name: Ortolani, S.
name: Fuensalida, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main goal of this work is the analysis of new approaches to the study of the properties of astronomical sites. In particular, satellite data measuring aerosols have recently been proposed as a useful technique for site characterization and searching for new sites to host future very large telescopes. Nevertheless, these data need to be critically considered and interpreted in accordance with the spatial resolution and spectroscopic channels used. In this paper we have explored and retrieved measurements from satellites with high spatial and temporal resolutions and concentrated on channels of astronomical interest. The selected datasets are OMI on board the NASA Aura satellite and MODIS on board the NASA Terra and Aqua satellites. A comparison of remote sensing and in situ techniques is discussed. As a result, we find that aerosol data provided by satellites up to now are not reliable enough for aerosol site characterization, and in situ data are required.
description: LaTeX2e MN v2.2, 16 pages with 13 figures. Accepted for Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.(2008)
Specifics
Creators: name: Geurts, Bart
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: In all these examples there appears to be mismatch between the position at which an indefinite appears and its preferred interpretation. Following many of the more recent contributions to the literature, I will assume that this is the hallmark of specificity (e.g. Ahusch 1994, Reinhart 1997, Winter 1997, van Geenhoven 1998). Such mismatches are not the norm: indefinites are often interpreted in situ, and there is some reason for taking this to be the default option. The reason is that comparatively 'neutral', i.e. semantically attenuate, indefinites have a preference for in situ readings [...].
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
Edges and Diffractive Effects in Casimir Energies
Creators: name: Kabat, Daniel
name: Karabali, Dimitra
name: Nair, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prototypical Casimir effect arises when a scalar field is confined between parallel Dirichlet boundaries. We study corrections to this when the boundaries themselves have apertures and edges. We consider several geometries: a single plate with a slit in it, perpendicular plates separated by a gap, and two parallel plates, one of which has a long slit of large width, related to the case of one plate being semi-infinite. We develop a general formalism for studying such problems, based on the wavefunctional for the field in the gap between the plates. This formalism leads to a lower dimensional theory defined on the open regions of the plates or boundaries. The Casimir energy is then given in terms of the determinant of the nonlocal differential operator which defines the lower dimensional theory. We develop perturbative methods for computing these determinants. Our results are in good agreement with known results based on Monte Carlo simulations. The method is well suited to isolating the diffractive contributions to the Casimir energy.
description: 32 pages, LaTeX, 9 figures. v2: additional discussion of renormalization procedure, version to appear in PRD. v3: corrected a sign error in (70)
Spontaneous formation of optically induced surface relief gratings
Creators: name: Leblond, H.
name: Barille, R.
name: Ahamadi-kandjani, S.
name: Nunzi, J. -M.
name: Ortyl, E.
name: Kucharski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model based on Fick's law of diffusion as a phenomenological description of the molecular motion, and on the coupled mode theory, is developped to describe single-beam surface relief grating formation in azopolymers thin films. It allows to explain the mechanism of spontaneous patterning, and self-organization. It allows also to compute the surface relief profile and its evolution in time with good agreement with experiments.
Specificity and definiteness in sentence and discourse structure
Creators: name: Von Heusinger, Klaus
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: In this paper, I argue that this informally given list of characteristics covers only a certain subclass of specific indefinites. […] In particular, I dispute the definition of specific indefinites as "the speaker has the referent in mind" as rather confusing if one is working with a semantic theory. Furthermore, I discuss "relative specificity", it. cases in which the specific indefinite does not exhibit wide, but intermediate or narrow scope behavior. Based on such data, I argue that specificity expresses a referential dependency between introduced discourse items. Informally speaking, the specificity of the indefinite expression something [...] expresses that the reference of the expression depends on the reference of another expression, here, on the expression a monk, not the speaker.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
Sluicing phenomena
Creators: name: Schwabe, Kerstin
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: The paper shows that in various sluicing types, the wh-phrase in the sluicing sentence as well as its relatum in the antecedent clause must be F-marked, and it explains this observation with Schwarzschild's (1999) and Merchant's (1999) focus theory. According to the semantics of the wh-phrase, it will argue that the relatum of the wh-phrase is an indefinite expression that must allow a specific interpretation. Following Heusinger (1997, 2000), specificity will be defined as an anchoring relation between the discourse referent introduced by the indefinite expression and a discourse given item. Because specific indefinite expressions are always novel, contexts like the scope of definite DPs, the scope of thematic matrix predicates, and the scope of downward-monotonic quantifiers which all exhibit non-novel indefinites do not allow sluicing.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
On the setting of scales in the diachrony of DOM
Creators: name: Irimia, Monica Alexandrina
name: Pineda, Anna
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: The focus of this paper is a generally ignored counterexample to animacy/person scales (Hale 1972, Silverstein 1976, Aissen 2003, a.o.), which are often assumed to be universal (Kiparsky 2008, a.o.). Drawing from Old Romance differential object marking data, we analyze a scale reversal setting in Old Catalan and Old Romanian. The puzzle is that 3rd person pronouns surface with differential object marking to the exclusion of 1st and 2nd persons, contrary to what the scales would predict. We propose to derive these patterns by examining i) micro-parameters in the composition of Romance DPs and pronouns; ii) the presence of more than one licensing strategy for arguments. The scale reversal results from the introduction of a novel argument licensing strategy based on animacy in languages where an older strategy for 1st/ 2nd persons was still active.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Covering rough sets based on neighborhoods: An approach without using neighborhoods
Creators: name: Zhu, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rough set theory, a mathematical tool to deal with inexact or uncertain knowledge in information systems, has originally described the indiscernibility of elements by equivalence relations. Covering rough sets are a natural extension of classical rough sets by relaxing the partitions arising from equivalence relations to coverings. Recently, some topological concepts such as neighborhood have been applied to covering rough sets. In this paper, we further investigate the covering rough sets based on neighborhoods by approximation operations. We show that the upper approximation based on neighborhoods can be defined equivalently without using neighborhoods. To analyze the coverings themselves, we introduce unary and composition operations on coverings. A notion of homomorphismis provided to relate two covering approximation spaces. We also examine the properties of approximations preserved by the operations and homomorphisms, respectively.
description: 13 pages; to appear in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Indefinites and negation in Ancient Greek
Creators: name: Gianollo, Chiara
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: The history of Greek negation is interesting for our theoretical understanding of negation systems in at least two respects, which I will investigate in this contribution. First, Homeric Greek is a Double Negation system, while Classical Greek exhibits Negative Concord. Homeric Greek already shows signs of a diachronic development: there are two series of negative indefinites, an older plain one and a newer emphatic one. The emphatic series is formed by means of the focus-sensitive correlative negation oudé. The latter is the only negatively marked element to exhibit redundancy in the marking of negation in Homeric Greek: it can be argued to be responsible for the birth of Negative Concord items in the language. Furthermore, the system exhibited by Classical Greek is very relevant for our understanding of the syntactic factors that shape Negative Concord. Classical Greek is a non-strict Negative Concord language. However, differ- ently from other well-studied languages of this type (e.g. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), it shows extremely frequent cases of pre-Infl Concord among multiple Negative Concord items, a more constrained option in Romance. A study of their distribution may help shed light on the interaction between the syntax of Focus and Negative Concord.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
From simple predicators to clausal functors: the English modals through time and the primitives of modality
Creators: name: Gergel, Remus
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: The ultimate goal of this paper is to find a representation of modality compatible with some basic conditions on the syntax-semantic interface. Such conditions are anchored, for instance, in Chomsky's (1995) principle of full interpretation (FI). Abstract interpretation of modality is, however - be it "only" in semantic terms - already a hard nut to crack, way too vast to be dealt with in any comprehensive way here. What is pursued instead is a case-study-centered analysis. The case in point are the English modals (EM) viewed in their development through time - a locus classicus for a number of linguistic theories and frameworks. The idea will be to start out from two lines of research - continuous grammaticalization vs. cataclysmic change - and to explain some of their incongruities. The first non-trivial point here consists in deriving more fundamental questions from this research. The second, possibly even less trivial one consists in answering them. Specifically, I will argue that regardless of the actual numerical rate of change, there is an underlying and more structured way to account for the notions of change and continuity within the modal system, respectively.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
Old Venetan and the typology of Negative Concord
Creators: name: Garzonio, Jacopo
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: Partial and optional Negative Concord (NC) systems represent a challenge for any theory dealing with the syntax-semantics interface of negative dependencies. In this article I describe the NC concord system of Old Venetan varieties. These medieval North-Eastern Italian Dialects present a system of partial strict NC. More precisely, Old Venetian is a strict NC language, while Old Paduan and Old Veronese allow the presence of some negative words in the preverbal space without the preverbal sentential negator. In the article I argue, also on the basis of a comparison with modern Venetan dialects which have maintained a similar NC system, that strict NC, i.e. the presence of the preverbal negation, is a repair strategy emerging when the feature [uNeg] of negative words is blocked by other features, like [Focus], and is not able to make visible the covert negative operator Op.
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Additional file 2 of Can pre-trained convolutional neural networks be directly used as a feature extractor for video-based neonatal sleep and wake classification?
Creators: name: Awais, Muhammad
name: Long, Xi
name: Yin, Bin
name: Chen, Chen
name: Akbarzadeh, Saeed
name: Abbasi, Saadullah Farooq
name: Irfan, Muhammad
name: Lu, Chunmei
name: Wang, Xinhua
name: Wang, Laishuan
name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Overall ConvNet’s architecture, The details descriptions of all the pre-trained model has been mentioned.
Clausal tripartition, anti-locality and preliminary considerations of a formal approach to clause types
Creators: name: Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2001

description: We will see how it is reasonable to speak of a minimum distance that an element must cross in order to enter into a well-formed movement dependency. In the course of the discussion of this notion of anti-localiry, a theoretical framework unfolds which is compatible with recent thoughts on syntactic computation regarding local economy and phrase structure, as well as the view that certain pronouns are grammatical formatives, rather than fully lexical expressions. The upshot will be that if an element does not move a certain distance, the derivation crashes at PF, unless the lower copy is spelled out as a pronominal element. The framework presented has a number of implications for the study of clause-typing, of which some will be discussed towards the end.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 24 (2001): Sentence type and specificity
Bennequin type inequalities in lens spaces
Creators: name: Cornwell, Christopher R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27

description: We give criteria for an invariant of lens space links to bound the maximal self-linking number in certain tight contact lens spaces. As a corollary we extend the Franks-Williams-Morton inequality to the setting of lens spaces.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures; International Mathematics Research Notices 2011
Wh-relatives in the history of German (and what gender’s got to do with it)
Creators: name: Fuß, Eric
Publisher: name: Journal of Historical Syntax
Year: 2021

description: This paper investigates the historical development of (headed) wh-relatives in German, focusing on the neuter singular form was ‘what’. It is shown that similar to other Germanic languages, wh-elements first appeared in (generalizing/unconditional) free relative clauses before they spread to headed relative clauses. The latter change took place in the 16thcentury, when the neuter singular form das was rapidly replaced by was in connection with indefinite antecedents such as ‘everything’ and ‘nothing’, eventually leading to the distribution still found in the present-day language. Prior to this transition, there existed an intermediate system attested in the writings of Luther where the distribution of the variants was governed by semantic properties (more precisely, was was used in [–def] contexts, while das appeared in all other contexts). Based on this finding the paper argues that the rise of headed wh-relatives introduced by was ‘what’ was linked to a set of changes that blurred the original semantic motivation behind the distribution of d- and wh-forms in relative clauses (linked to definiteness), which paved the way for a reanalysis in which the alternation between das and was was attributed to the presence/absence of valued gender features on Drel (cf. Brandt & Fuß 2018 on present-day German).
description: Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference