tazir gradation (indefinite punishments)

Degree Gradation of Verbs

Anisotropic Mesh Gradation Control

The paper presents an a priori procedure to control the element size and shape variation for meshing algorithms governed by anisotropic sizing specifications. The field of desired element size and shape is represented by a background structure. The procedure consists in replacing the initial field with a smoothed one that preserves anisotropic features and smaller element sizes. The smoothness ...

Adjectival modification and gradation

Mesh Gradation Control

This paper gives a procedure to control the size variation in a mesh adaption scheme where the size speci cation (the so-called control space) is used to govern the mesh generation stage. The method consists in replacing the initial control space by a reduced one by means of size or metric. It allows to improve, a priori, the quality of the adapted mesh and to speed up the adaption procedure. S...

The indefinite article – Indefinite ? – Article ?

Perlmutter (1970) argued that the indefinite article is categorically different from the definite article and proposed that it is a clitic version of the numeral "one". But there are, as Perlmutter himself pointed out, instances of "a" as well as of "one" that don't seem to have the semantics of the numeral. Hence a divorce of "a" (and of "one") from "numeral"-hood is called for. Furthermore, t...

Self-Enforcing Cooperation with Graduated Punishments∗

Case studies of self-enforcing cooperation in repeated interactions usually find that the punishments inflicted on deviators are mild to start with, and increase only if there is evidence of persistent deviation. We model this using a combination of imperfect monitoring and asymmetric information in a one-sided prisoner’s dilemma. Call the player with the temptation to cheat player B, and the o...