cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genitive focus in Supyire
Creators: name: Carlson, Robert
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: Supyire has two distinct genitive constructions, one consisting of juxtaposed nouns, and the other marked with a particle. This study demonstrates that the marked genitive correlates significantly in natural discourse with contrastive focus as operationally defined in Myhill and Xing (1996). The method used avoids the vicious circularity of many discourse-based studies of focus. Contrastive focus, rather than being "coded", is a pragmatic construal which is dependent on other elements in the communicative context. This construal is only one of the possible construals of the marked genitive (contra Carlson 1994). In this it is not unlike other so-called "contrastive focus" constructions noted in the literature, such as contrastive stress in English.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 46 (2006): Papers on information structure in African languages
Capturing Polynomial Time on Interval Graphs
Creators: name: Laubner, Bastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2; F.4.1; G.2.2

description: We prove a characterization of all polynomial-time computable queries on the class of interval graphs by sentences of fixed-point logic with counting. More precisely, it is shown that on the class of unordered interval graphs, any query is polynomial-time computable if and only if it is definable in fixed-point logic with counting. This result is one of the first establishing the capturing of polynomial time on a graph class which is defined by forbidden induced subgraphs. For this, we define a canonical form of interval graphs using a type of modular decomposition, which is different from the method of tree decomposition that is used in most known capturing results for other graph classes, specifically those defined by forbidden minors. The method might also be of independent interest for its conceptual simplicity. Furthermore, it is shown that fixed-point logic with counting is not expressive enough to capture polynomial time on the classes of chordal graphs or incomparability graphs.
description: 17 pages
When verbal predicates go fronting
Creators: name: Aboh, Enoch O.
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: This paper demonstrates that there are no empirical and theoretical motivations for regarding verbal predicate focus constructions as (diachronically) derived from cleft constructions. Instead, it is argued that predicate fronting for the purpose of focus or topic is comparable to verb (phrase) fronting structures in other languages (e.g., Germanic). The proposed analysis further indicates that related doubling strategies observed in certain languages are the consequences of parallel chains that license the fronted verb (phrase) in the left periphery, and the Agree-tense-aspect features inside the proposition.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 46 (2006): Papers on information structure in African languages
Activation and modulation of GABA(B) receptor systems in physiogenic and pathophysiological conditions
Creators: name: Pitman, Kimberley
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Central nervous system

description: γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. This thesis explores the actions of known or proposed agonists for the GABA type B (GABAB) receptor in isolated cells and on nerve terminals releasing dopamine in rodents. The first chapter provides the background information for the research undertaken in this thesis. In the second chapter I used whole cell patch clamp electrophysiology to explore the action of the proposed atypical GABAB receptor agonist, R-isovaline, at heterologously or natively expressed GABAB receptors in isolated cells. I found that R-isovaline did not initiate GABAB-mediated K+ currents and did not occlude or enhance the responses of other GABAB receptor agonists. Our data suggest that R-isovaline does not act as a direct agonist at GABAB receptors. In the third chapter I used fast-scan cyclic voltammetry in brain slices to explore the mechanisms behind GABAB modulation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core of mice. The canonical GABAB receptor agonist, baclofen, concentration-dependently inhibited dopamine release by a direct action on dopamine neuron terminals. Baclofen-mediated inhibition of release was reduced when dopamine was released by stimulations that mimicked burst firing of dopamine neurons. Baclofen also decreased the probability of dopamine release. I also found that GABAB modulation of dopamine release was not altered by a sensitising cocaine treatment. In the fourth chapter I used fast scan cyclic voltammetry to assess whether diet induced obesity or a binge pattern of eating could alter GABAB or dopamine D2 receptor mediated regulation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core in rats. The abilities of baclofen and the D2 agonist quinpirole to inhibit dopamine release were unchanged by long term access to a palatable cafeteria diet. Chapter 5 discusses the main findings of these experiments and potential future experiments.
The large CP phase in B(s)-anti-B(s) mixing from primary scalar unparticles
Creators: name: Parry, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we consider the case of primary scalar unparticle contributions to B(d,s) mixing. With particular emphasis on the impact of the recent hint of new physics in the measurement of the B(s) mixing phase, phi(s), we determine the allowed parameter space and impose bounds on the unparticle couplings.
description: 8 pages, 8 jpeg figures, using pdflatex. Typo corrected, reference added
The effect of Tramadol on blood sugar in patients with a sympathetic parasympathetic imbalance. A letter to the medical community.
Creators: name: Diamandis, Carolina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321402
subject: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics

description: Tramadol might be the safest and most effective drug to control catecholamine driven diabetes, a neglected type of elevated blood glucose levels. More research has to be done. This letter to all colleagues in endocrinology around the globe is intended to be a wake-up call.
focus particle in Kîîtharaka
Creators: name: Abels, Klaus
name: Muriungi, Peter
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: In this paper we argue that Kîîıtharaka in situ and ex situ object focus constructions are exhaustive. Sentences with a preverbal focus marker are argued to be nonexhaustive. Our conclusions are based on felicity in mention-some contexts, simple and multiple questions and entailment relations.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 46 (2006): Papers on information structure in African languages
Gutsein und Streben. Jenseits von Wertobjektivismus und Wertsubjektivismus?
Creators: name: Steinfath, Holmer
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2013
Subjects: Holmer Steinfath; desire; Heidegger; being-in-the-world

description: Desiring the good. Beyond value-objectivism and value-subjectivism?
Is something good because we desire it? Or should we desire something because it is good independently of our desires? This article explores the difficulties and attractions of affirmative answers to both questions. Taking up important clues from Aristotle’s notion of orexis the paper argues that a better understanding of the evaluative character of desires and their embeddedness in intersubjective value discourses may open a third way between subjectivism and objectivism with respect to values. Conceiving of desires and other orectic states as attitudes that are both motivational and evaluative helps to see in which way desires are conditions of the good and in which way the good functions as an independent standard for our desires. The article concludes with speculative ontological considerations that are inspired by Heidegger’s idea of Being-in-the-World.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 1 (2013): Cura sui e autotrascendimento. La formazione di sé fra antico e postmoderno.
Papers on information structure in African languages
Creators: name: Fiedler, Ines
name: Schwarz, Anne
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: These proceedings, also online available as No. 46 in the ZAS Papers in Linguistics series under http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil have resulted from the International Conference "Focus in African languages" held October 6-8, 2005 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin. The conference was cooperatively organized by the latter, together with the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsforschungsbereich) 632, generously funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It was the first conference bringing together colleagues working on this topic from all over the world in such scale. Even though this volume contains only ten contributions out of the 35 papers presented at the conference, it displays the wide range of approaches, subjects and languages studied in the field of information structure in African languages. The collection thus reflects the synergetic atmosphere of the conference. In the name of all organizers (Laura Downing, Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, Sabine Zerbian, Malte Zimmermann) we would like to take this opportunity to thank the participant reviewers and student assistants for their contributions by which the conference became such a fruitful forum for inspiring and seminal studies in this field. Also special thanks for their effort in copy editing to our research assistants Lars Marstaller and Paul Starzmann.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 46 (2006): Papers on information structure in African languages
Distributed data analysis for better scientific collaborations
Creators: name: Sommer, Philipp S.
name: Wichert, Viktoria
name: Eggert, Daniel
name: Dinter, Tilman
name: Getzlaff, Klaus
name: Lehmann, Andreas
name: Werner, Christian
name: Silva, Brenner
name: Schmidt, Lennart
name: Schäfer, Angela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: marehub
datahub
helmholtz
geomar
hgf
remote procedure call

description: A common challenge for projects with multiple involved research institutes is a well-defined and productive collaboration. All parties measure and analyze different aspects, depend on each other, share common methods, and exchange the latest results, findings, and data. Today this exchange is often impeded by a lack of ready access to shared computing and storage resources. In our talk, we present a new and innovative remote procedure call (RPC) framework. We focus on a distributed setup, where project partners do not necessarily work at the same institute, and do not have access to each others resources. We present the prototype of an application programming interface (API) developed in Python that enables scientists to collaboratively explore and analyze sets of distributed data. It offers the functionality to request remote data through a comfortable interface, and to share analytical workflows and their results. Our methodology uses the Digital Earth software framework, especially its messaging component. The prototype enables researchers to make their methods accessible as a backend module running on their own servers. Hence researchers from other institutes may apply the available methods through a lightweight python API. This API transforms standard python calls into requests to the backend process on the remote server. In the end, the overhead for both, the backend developer and the remote user, is very low. The effort of implementing the necessary workflow and API usage equalizes the writing of code in a non-distributed setup. Besides that, data do not have to be downloaded locally, the analysis can be executed "close to the data" while using the institutional infrastructure where the eligible data set is stored. With our prototype, we demonstrate distributed data access and analysis workflows across institutional borders to enable effective scientific collaboration, thus deepening our understanding of the Earth system.
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: October 2018 California 10 Poll
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Likelihood of voting in 2018 election (2); vote for Democrat/Republican for Congress (1); California Congressional District 10 (1); democratic candidate Josh Harder (1); republican candidate Jeff Denham (1); opinion of various public figures (2); respondent would like Democrats/Republicans to control House of Representatives (1); President Donald Trump job performance (1); political partisanship (1).
Expression of information structure in the Bantu language Northern Sotho
Creators: name: Zerbian, Sabine
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: Die Hauptthese dieser Dissertation ist, dass Nord-Sotho keinen obligatorischen Gebrauch von grammatischen Mitteln zur Markierung von Fokus macht, weder in der Syntax noch in der Prosodie oder Morphologie. Trotzdem strukturiert diese Sprache eine Äußerung nach informationsstrukturellen Aspekten. Konstituenten, die im Diskurs gegeben sind, werden entweder getilgt, pronominalisiert oder an den rechten oder linken Satzrand versetzt. Diese (morpho-)syntaktischen Prozesse wirken so zusammen, dass die fokussierte Konstituente oft final in ihrem Teilsatz erscheint. Obwohl die finale Position keine designierte Fokusposition ist, ist das Wissen um diese Tendenz doch entscheidend für das Verständnis einer morphologischen Alternation, die in Nord-Sotho am Verb erscheint und die in der Literatur im Zusammenhang mit Fokus diskutiert wurde. Obwohl also ein direkter grammatischer Ausdruck von formaler F(okus)-Markierung im Nord-Sotho fehlt, ist F-Markierung trotzdem entscheidend für die Grammatik dieser Sprache: Fokussierte logische Subjekte können nicht in kanonischer präverbaler Position erscheinen. Sie erscheinen stattdessen entweder postverbal oder in einem Spaltsatz, abhängig von der Valenz des Verbs. Obwohl Nord-Sotho bei Objekten im Gebrauch von Spaltsätzen eine Korrespondenz von komplexer Form mit komplexer Bedeutung zeigt, gilt diese Korrespondenz nicht für logische Subjekte. Die vorliegende Dissertation modelliert die oben genannten Ergebnisse im theoretischen Rahmen der Optimalitätstheorie (OT). Syntaktischer in situ Fokus und die Abwesenheit von prosodischer Fokusmarkierung können mit unkontroversen Beschränkungen erfasst werden. Für die Ungrammatikaliät fokussierter logischer Subjekte in präverbaler Position schlägt die vorliegende Arbeit die Modifizierung einer in der Literatur vorhandenen Beschränkung vor, die in Nord-Sotho von entscheidener Bedeutung ist. Die Form-Bedeutungs-Korrespondenz wird, wie andere Phänomene pragmatischer Arbeitsteilung auch, innerhalb der schwach bidirektionalen Optimalitätstheorie behandelt.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 45 (2006): Expression of information structure in the Bantu language Northern Sotho
Cuidado de sí y “familiaridad” en el estoicismo: ¿Cuán egoísta y cuán altruista es la ética estoica?
Creators: name: Boeri, Marcelo D.
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2013
Subjects: Marcelo Boeri; oikeiosis; stoicism

description: Self-care and “oikeiosis:” how egoistic or altruistic is Stoic ethics?
Self-care is a Platonic issue whose main focus is on the care of the soul. The author of this essay suggests that the Stoics reinterpret the problem of selfcare through their doctrine of oikeiosis, according to which the first impulse of the human animal consists in egoistic self-preservation which later, when rationality bursts forth, can be reoriented toward an altruistic approach. In this second stage of oikeiosis, the author claims, the human being continues to think of his or her self-interest, but the latter can now be integrated into a concern for the other. Stoicism’s contribution to the problem of self-care, understood in terms of the theory of oikeiosis, is the relevance of the social dimension that such care acquires.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 1 (2013): Cura sui e autotrascendimento. La formazione di sé fra antico e postmoderno.
When the donkey lost its fleas: persistence, contxtual restriction, and minimal situations
Creators: name: Zweig, Eytan
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: This paper revisits the question of whether propositions in situation semantics must be persistent (Kratzer (1989)). It shows that ignoring persistence causes empirical problems to theories which use quantification over minimal situations as a solution for donkey anaphora (Elbourne (2005)), while at the same time modifying these theories to incorporate persistence makes them incompatible with the use of situations for contextual restriction (Kratzer (2004)).
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Adverbial quantification and focus in Hausa
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Malte
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: The paper investigates the interaction of focus and adverbial quantification in Hausa, a Chadic tone language spoken in West Africa. The discussion focuses on similarities and differences between intonation and tone languages concerning the way in which adverbial quantifiers (AQs) and focus particles (FPs) associate with focus constituents. It is shown that the association of AQs with focused elements does not differ fundamentally in intonation and tone languages such as Hausa, despite the fact that focus marking in Hausa works quite differently. This may hint at the existence of a universal mechanism behind the interpretation of adverbial quantifiers across languages. From a theoretical perspective, the Hausa data can be taken as evidence in favour of pragmatic approaches to the focus-sensitivity of AQs, such as e.g. Beaver & Clark (2003).
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Like Men Do: Stories
Creators: name: Wilson, Anthony D.E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This collection examines the often-hidden emotions of men, the frequently tenuous relationship between fathers and sons, and the way men act when they aren't the way society wants them to be. Brothers, both adopted, face the prospect of being fathers themselves; a lonely man finds connection through violence; a best friend wonders how far he can go to repay his indebtedness; a giant seeks to find what makes him feel small; a father considers the gravity of his betrayal as he looks back on the mistakes of his own dad; and a man looks back on a night decades earlier that exemplified the helplessness he feels. Amidst all of these stories are narratives about how men live in a world of expectations, where acknowledging the depth of their souls often is seen as a weakness instead of strength.
Star Formation Around Supergiant Shells in the LMC
Creators: name: Book, Laura G.
name: Chu, You-Hua
name: Gruendl, Robert A.
name: Fukui, Yasuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the recent star formation associated with four supergiant shells (SGSs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC): LMC 1, 4, 5, and 6, which have been shown to have simple expanding-shell structures. H II regions and OB associations are used to infer star formation in the last few Myr, while massive young stellar objects (YSOs) reveal the current ongoing star formation. Distributions of ionized, H I, and molecular components of the interstellar gas are compared with the sites of recent and current star formation to determine whether triggering has taken place. We find that a great majority of the current star formation has occurred in gravitationally unstable regions, and that evidence of triggered star formation is prevalent at both large and local scales.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, improved image quality of figures
Entropy zero area preserving diffeomorphisms of $S^2$
Creators: name: Franks, John
name: Handel, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C05, 37E30, 37E45, 37J10, 57M60

description: In this paper we formulate and prove a structure theorem for area preserving diffeomorphisms of genus zero surfaces with zero entropy. As an application we relate the existence of faithful actions of a finite index subgroup of the mapping class group of a closed surface $Σ_g$ on $S^2$ by area preserving diffeomorphisms to the existence of finite index subgroups of bounded mapping class groups $MCG(S, \partial S)$ with non-trivial first cohomology.
description: 88 pages, 4 figures
Tra le menzogne e la verità Una lettura in chiave web di Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable di Damien Hirst
Creators: name: Anselmi, Alberto; Bassani, Giordana
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017

description: This article analyzes the Venetian exhibition of Damian Hirst “Treasures from the wreck of the Unbelievable” (Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana) from the point of view of its semantical belonging to the new tendencies of web communication and its overlapping with the myths and trends that are pertinent with these through a short comparative analysis of the shown contents as signifiers of the pop culture. It as to be noted that this kind of analysis as applied to the exhibition as a unicum, is not new to studies and researches but it is used for the first time to study the contents of an art product. The article examines the bulimic obsession of the Wunderkammer collector, who rarely distinguishes the childish pleasure of the mirabilia from the irrational, unattainable attempt to lay out a taxonomy of every field of knowledge in a deranged archive of the universe as the one which titled an extraordinary Biennale.
Like Men Do: Stories
Creators: name: Wilson, Anthony D.E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: This collection examines the often-hidden emotions of men, the frequently tenuous relationship between fathers and sons, and the way men act when they aren't the way society wants them to be. Brothers, both adopted, face the prospect of being fathers themselves; a lonely man finds connection through violence; a best friend wonders how far he can go to repay his indebtedness; a giant seeks to find what makes him feel small; a father considers the gravity of his betrayal as he looks back on the mistakes of his own dad; and a man looks back on a night decades earlier that exemplified the helplessness he feels. Amidst all of these stories are narratives about how men live in a world of expectations, where acknowledging the depth of their souls often is seen as a weakness instead of strength.
The three-dimensional origin of the classifying algebra
Creators: name: Fuchs, Jurgen
name: Schweigert, Christoph
name: Stigner, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that reflection coefficients for bulk fields of a rational conformal field theory in the presence of an elementary boundary condition can be obtained as representation matrices of irreducible representations of the classifying algebra, a semisimple commutative associative complex algebra. We show how this algebra arises naturally from the three-dimensional geometry of factorization of correlators of bulk fields on the disk. This allows us to derive explicit expressions for the structure constants of the classifying algebra as invariants of ribbon graphs in the three-manifold S^2 x S^1. Our result unravels a precise relation between intertwiners of the action of the mapping class group on spaces of conformal blocks and boundary conditions in rational conformal field theories.
EU Citizen Observatories Landscape Report II: Addressing the Challenges of Awareness, Acceptability, and Sustainability
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
name: Wehn, Uta
name: Bilbao, Ane
name: Hager, Gerid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: citizen science, citizen observatories

description: Citizen Observatories (COs) are community-based environmental monitoring initiatives that invite the public to contribute observations, data and information in complement to authoritative, traditional insitu and remote sensing Earth Observation data. COs can play an important role in crucial areas such as climate change, sustainable development, air monitoring, flood and drought monitoring, land cover or land-use change. They can also provide new data sources for policy-making, and can result in increased citizen participation in environmental management and governance at a large scale. With the increasing prevalence of COs globally, there have been calls for a more integrated approach to handling their complexities, and to sharing knowledge for the design and management of stable, reliable and scalable CO programmes. Answering this challenge in the European context, the Horizon 2020-funded project WeObserve aims to improve coordination between existing COs and related European activities, while tackling three key challenges that inhibit the mainstreaming of citizen science, namely: Awareness, Acceptability, and Sustainability. This D2.4 Landscape Report frames the second part of a dynamic exercise to examine the three core challenges faced by these COs, and to consolidate the experience of a range of stakeholders into a set of recommendations for strengthening the ecosystem around COs in Europe.
How semantics dictates the syntactic vocabulary
Creators: name: Zeijlstra, Hedde
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: In this paper I argue that the set of formal features that can head a functional projection is not given by UG but derived through L1 acquisition. I formulate a hypothesis that says that initially every functional category F is realised as a semantic feature [F]; whenever there is an overt doubling effect in the L1 input with respect to F, this semantic feature [F] is reanalysed as a formal feature [i/uF]. In the first part of the paper I provide a theoretical motivation for this hypothesis, in the second part I test this proposal for a case-study, namely the cross-linguistic distribution of Negative Concord (NC). I demonstrate that in NC languages negation has been reanalysed as a formal feature [i/uNEG], whereas in Double Negation languages this feature remains a semantic feature [NEG] (always interpreted as a negative operator), thus paving the way for an explanation of NC in terms of syntactic agreement. In the third part I discuss that the application of the hypothesis to the phenomenon of negation yields two predictions that can be tested empirically. First I demonstrate that negative markers X° can be available only in NC languages; second, independent change of the syntactic status of negative markers, can invoke a change with respect to the exhibition of NC in a particular language. Both predictions are proven to be correct. I finally argue what the consequences of the proposal presented in this paper are for both the syntactic structure of the clause and second for the way parameters are associated to lexical items.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Don't negate imperatives! Imperatives and the semantics of negative markers
Creators: name: Zeijlstra, Hedde
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: Languages cross-linguistically differ with respect to whether they accept or ban True Negative Imperatives (TNIs). In this paper I show that this ban follows from three generally accepted assumptions: (i) the fact that the operator that encodes the illocutionary force of an imperative universally takes scope from C°; (ii) the fact that this operator may not be operated on by a negative operator and (iii) the Head Movement Constraint (an instance of Relativized Minimality). In my paper I argue that languages differ too with respect to both the syntactic status (head/phrasal) and the semantic value (negative/non-negative) of their negative markers. Given these difference across languages and the analysis of TNIs based on the three above mentioned assumptions, two typological generalisations can be predicted: (i) every language with an overt negative marker X° that is semantically negative bans TNIs; and (ii) every language that bans TNIs exhibits an overt negative marker X°. I demonstrate in my paper that both typological predictions are born out.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
An explicit approach to residues on and dualizing sheaves of arithmetic surfaces
Creators: name: Morrow, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H25 (Primary), 14F10 (Secondary)

description: We develop a theory of residues for arithmetic surfaces, establish the reciprocity law around a point, and use the residue maps to explicitly construct the dualizing sheaf of the surface. These are generalisations of known results for surfaces over a perfect field. In an appendix, explicit local ramification theory is used to recover the fact that in the case of a local complete intersection the dualizing and canonical sheaves coincide.
description: This is an update and correction to an earlier version of the paper, entitled "An explicit approach to residues on and canonical sheaves of arithmetic surfaces"; an erroneous lemma (lemma 5.4) in the earlier version necessitated restructuring of the paper, though the main results are largely unchanged
From Physics to Economics: An Econometric Example Using Maximum Relative Entropy
Creators: name: Giffin, Adom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Econophysics, is based on the premise that some ideas and methods from physics can be applied to economic situations. We intend to show in this paper how a physics concept such as entropy can be applied to an economic problem. In so doing, we demonstrate how information in the form of observable data and moment constraints are introduced into the method of Maximum relative Entropy (MrE). A general example of updating with data and moments is shown. Two specific econometric examples are solved in detail which can then be used as templates for real world problems. A numerical example is compared to a large deviation solution which illustrates some of the advantages of the MrE method.
description: This paper has been accepted in Physica A. 19 Pages, 3 Figures
Black holes and asymptotically safe gravity
Creators: name: Falls, Kevin
name: Litim, Daniel F.
name: Raghuraman, Aarti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum gravitational corrections to black holes are studied in four and higher dimensions using a renormalisation group improvement of the metric. The quantum effects are worked out in detail for asymptotically safe gravity, where the short distance physics is characterized by a non-trivial fixed point of the gravitational coupling. We find that a weakening of gravity implies a decrease of the event horizon, and the existence of a Planck-size black hole remnant with vanishing temperature and vanishing heat capacity. The absence of curvature singularities is generic and discussed together with the conformal structure and the Penrose diagram of asymptotically safe black holes. The production cross section of mini-black holes in energetic particle collisions, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider, is analysed within low-scale quantum gravity models. Quantum gravity corrections imply that cross sections display a threshold, are suppressed in the Planckian, and reproduce the semi-classical result in the deep trans-Planckian region. Further implications are discussed.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, Sec V G added to match published version
Decomposing path shapes: about an interplay of manner of motion and 'the path'
Creators: name: Weisgerber, Matthias
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: In this paper we will develop a formal conceptual model of how the path in a motion situation interacts with the semantic analysis of so called 'motion shape verbs' like 'wackeln' ('wobble'), a subclass of the so called 'manner of motion verbs'. Central to this model will be the distinction between two concepts of motion: translational motion and nontranslational motion, which has no inherent translational component but puts emphasis on describing specific Motion Shape Patterns. We will define and algorithmically describe a theory of Path Shape Decomposition that aims at algorithmically deriving the translational vs. nontranslational distinction from the shape of the path. To account for object internal motion, we additionally introduce Bounding Box encapsulation, which yields a topological division of inner and outer movement. Finally we demonstrate how the outcome of such a technical decomposition can be used in modelling a Path Superimposition scenario like 'Peter wackelt über die Straße'.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Russian predicative clefts: tensions between semantics and pragmatics
Creators: name: Verbuk, Anna
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: Russian predicate cleft constructions have the surprising property of being associated with adversative clauses of the opposite polarity. I argue that clefts are associated with adversative clauses because they have the semantics of S-Topics in Büring's (1997, 2000) sense of the term. It is shown that the polarity of the adversative clause is obligatorily opposed to that of the cleft because the use of a cleft gives rise to a relevance-based pragmatic scale. The ordering principle according to which these scale
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: October 2018 Illinois 13 Poll
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Likelihood of voting in 2018 election (2); Illinois Congressional District 13 (1); democratic candidate Betsy Londrigan (1); republican candidate Rodney Davis (1); vote for Democrat/Republican for Congress (1); opinion of various public figures (2); respondent would like Democrats/Republicans to control House of Representatives (1); President Donald Trump job performance (1); political partisanship (1).
Dealing with alternatives
Creators: name: Tovena, Lucia M.
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: Traditionally, pure additive particles and scalar additive particles are both characterized by an existential presupposition. They differ insofar as the set of alternatives that is built is unordered for the former, and ordered for the latter, which carry the so-called scalar presupposition. As a result, the two characterisations cannot be cumulated, an impossibility that is at odds with the fact that several languages exhibit this combination of readings for a single item. The discussion of Italian neanche '(n)either/(not) even', an item that can both be additive and scalar, allows us to expose the connection between the oppositions non-ordered vs ordered set of alternatives and verified vs accommodated existential presupposition by adding content to the traditional view that the set of alternatives is made up of 'relevant' items in the context. The question of how to characterise this item is set against the backdrop of a more general discussion of the network of additive particles found in Italian.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Enhancement of Superfluid Stiffness, Suppression of Superconducting T_c and Field-induced Magnetism in the Pnictide Superconductor LiFeAs
Creators: name: Pratt, F. L.
name: Baker, P. J.
name: Blundell, S. J.
name: Lancaster, T.
name: Lewtas, H. J.
name: Adamson, P.
name: Pitcher, M. J.
name: Parker, D. R.
name: Clarke, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse-field muon-spin rotation measurements performed on two samples of LiFeAs demonstrate that the superfluid stiffness of the superconducting condensate in relation to its superconducting transition temperature is enhanced compared to other pnictide superconductors. Evidence is seen for a field-induced magnetic state in a sample with a significantly suppressed superconducting transition temperature. The results in this system highlight the role of direct Fe-Fe interactions in frustrating pairing mediated by antiferromagnetic fluctuations and suggest that, in common with other pnictide superconductors, the system is close to a magnetic instability.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Addressing the needs of Malaysian postmenopausal women: A pharmacist-led screening programme in a teaching hospital primary care clinic
Creators: name: Toh, Li Shean
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice

description: In Malaysia, the prevalence of osteoporosis in women age >45 years is approximately 1 in 4 making it a major public health concern. Osteoporosis is usually asymptomatic in its early stages. Consequently, women who may have osteoporosis remain unidentified. This may lead to unwanted fractures. Fractures are associated with a reduction in quality of life. There is a 3-fold increased risk of death within 5 years in those who fracture. It is therefore imperative to encourage prevention and screening programmes which aid in early detection of osteoporosis. Current research suggests that many individuals with fragility fractures do not undergo appropriate screening and do not engage in preventive health behaviours. Pharmacists can work in collaboration with doctors to screen for osteoporosis, to educate patients on their osteoporosis risk, and to empower patients to take osteoporosis preventive measures. It is with this belief that we conducted this study to determine the effectiveness of a pharmacist osteoporosis screening programme in postmenopausal women. This study design was developed based on the United Kingdom Medical Research Council’s Framework of developing and evaluating complex intervention. Hence, this research project was divided into three phases: phase one was to explore the perceptions of the stakeholders for conducting an osteoporosis screening programme, phase two was to develop tools for the osteoporosis screening programme whilst phase three was to conduct the a feasibility study on the osteoporosis screening programme.
Feature-placing, localizability, and the semantics of existential sentences
Creators: name: Szekely, Rachel
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: Many analyses of existential sentences have focused attention on determining which of its elements constitutes the logical subject and predicate, and this has proven to be a not uncontroversial topic of research. Some, from both syntactic and semantic points of view, have argued that there is a subject (cf. Williams 1994) others that it is a predicate (cf. Moro 1997). Similarly, some have argued that the associate NP is a logical subject, others that it is apredicate (Higginbotham 1987). One logical possibility that has not (to my knowledge) been pursued in the linguistics literature is that these statements are not of the form subject-predicate, a possibility that has been taken up in the philosophical literature by P.F. Strawson (1959). He claims that there are such statements and that their form is simpler than that of subject-predicate statements because it does not, and cannot, involve an expression that makes reference to an individual. Not involving reference to an individual, these sentences are therefore are made true by different means than a subject-predicate statement whose truth, in the simplest cases, depends on the denotation of the subject being a member of the denotation of the predicate. Of interest from the point of view of the present discussion is his claim that existential statements are examples of this kind of statement, which he calls a feature-placing statement. The truth of a statement of the form feature-placer requires that something with the set of features denoted by the associate NP exist at the location or coordinates expressed by the placer. In an existential sentence we can take the associate NP as the feature-denoting expression and the coda-XP as the placer.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Quantificational readings of indefinites with focused creation verbs
Creators: name: Stephenson, Tamina
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2006

description: This paper looks at sentences with "quantificational indefinites," discussed by Diesing (1992) and others. I propose that these sentences generate sets of alternatives of the form {p, not p and it's possible that p}, which restrict the quantification by an extension of familiar focus principles. For example, in the sentence "I usually read a book about slugs" (on the relevant reading), "usually" quantifies over pairs such that x is a book about slugs, t is a time interval, and one alternative is true from the set {I read x at t, I can but do not read x at t}. In addition to accounting for a well-known contrast between creation and non-creation verbs, this also explains a second contrast that Diesing’s analysis cannot account for.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 44 Nr. 2 (2006): Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10
Similarity Flow Solutions of a Non-Newtonian Power-law Fluid
Creators: name: Guedda, Mohamed
name: Hammouch, Zakia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we present a mathematical analysis for a steady-state laminar boundary layer flow, governed by the Ostwald-de Wael power-law model of an incompressible non- Newtonian fluid past a semi-infinite power-law stretched flat plate with uniform free stream velocity. A generalization of the usual Blasius similarity transformation is used to find similarity solutions [1]. Under appropriate assumptions, partial differential equations are transformed into an autonomous third-order nonlinear degenerate ordinary differential equation with boundary conditions. Using a shooting method, we establish the existence of an infinite number of global unbounded solutions. The asymptotic behavior is also discussed. Some properties of those solutions depend on the viscosity power-law index.
Come fondare nella scrittura un luogo comune? Platone critico della comunicazione
Creators: name: Ronchi, Rocco
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2013
Subjects: Rocco; Ronchi; Plato; Derrida

description: How to establish a community in writing? Plato as a critic of communication
Plato’s critique of writing has a mostly ethical meaning. When Plato criticizes writing, he asserts the primacy of the pragmatic and pedagogical dimension of the philosophical communication compared to the mere semantics of ideas. The several models that have been proposed in order to explain the platonic critique of writing – the “oral” one by Havelock, the “esoteric” one by the Tübingen School, the “deconstructionist” one by Derrida – all neglect this dimension. Plato as a writer has to be comprised inside this very horizon instead. Plato’s critique of alphabetical writing comes at the conclusion of a dialogue concerning love (is it better to give oneself to the one who loves or rather to the one who doesn’t love?) and the distinction between good and bad rhetoric. Plato does not express his disdain for the alphabetical medium because he would prefer the oral-aural medium to convey the philosophical communication. Plato disdains a communication that has been reduced to the dimension of the medium, that has become only “transmission” of disembodied meanings from a “source” to a “receiver”, untied from any common shared context: a de-eroticized communication. In the platonic critique of writing the question therefore is what kind of knowledge, of production and circulation, the philosophical communication is. Such criticism will neither spare the platonic “theory of ideas”. As a matter of fact, its “objectivist” version will be criticized in the late dialogue Parmenides. Undoubtedly the alphabetical algorithm has produced the possibility of a desomatized and objectivated knowledge in the artificial memory of “texts”. Plato’s suspect is thus directed there. This doesn’t dismiss at all the fact that even in the written form there may be a communication able to keep alive this erotic-pedagogical dimension, a communication that actually is a paradoxical didachē (teaching) in absentia (without a common context between the teacher and the apprentice). Plato hasn’t actually been a great writer (the greatest?) in spite of his critique of writing. He has actually been thanks to it and because of it.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 1 (2013): Cura sui e autotrascendimento. La formazione di sé fra antico e postmoderno.