On metallic constructions

Pressure effects on Ca60Al40 metallic glass superconductors

Theoretical computation of the pressure dependence superconducting state parameters of binary Ca60Al40 is reported using model potential formalism. Explicit expressions have been derived for the volume dependence of the electron–phonon coupling strength λ and the Coulomb pseudopotential μ* considering the variation of Fermi momentum KF and Debye temperature ӨD with volume. Well known Ashcroft’s...

On Tolerant Cryptographic Constructions

We investigate how to construct secure cryptographic schemes, from few candidate schemes, some of which may be insecure. Namely, tolerant constructions tolerate the insecurity of some of the component schemes used in the construction. We define tolerant constructions, and investigate `folklore`, practical cascade and parallel constructions. We prove cascade of encryption schemes provide toleran...

Constructions on holiday

Constructions at Work provides many new empirical observations and sound criticisms of other work. These fail, however, to support Goldberg’s two main arguments. They do not undermine the need for innate linguistic structure; nor do they decide for Construction Grammar in particular.

Constructions on Holiday

On Japanese Desiderative Constructions

This paper describes desiderative constructions in Japanese with the main focus on ta(i) ‘want’ desideratives. In spite of the morphological one-word status, desiderative constructions have been claimed to have a complex structure at some abstract level of representation. We claim that there are two types of desideratives, and that their predicates have different lexical representations within ...