Central and Western Basque (CWB) dialects have a verb focalization construction involving the dummy verb egin, which as a lexical verb is akin to English ‘make’ or ‘do.’ (Rebuschi 1984, Ortiz de Urbina 1989, Zuazo 1998, Etxepare and Ortiz de Urbina 2003). An example of this construction is given in (1), which Ortiz de Urbina (1989) gives as a felicitous answer to the question, “What happened to...

Discount rate changes always receive considerable attention in financial markets. Two hypotheses compete to explain financial market reactions: the direct ‘borrowing cost effect’ and the announcement effect. This paper examines the issue for the Bundesbank’s discount rate changes after 1979. Summing up we find that market reactions cannot be attributed to a direct borrowing cost effect but excl...

Existing methods that use a fringe projection technique for prosthetic designs produce good results for the trunk and lower limbs; however, the devices used for this purpose are expensive. This paper investigates the use of an inexpensive passive method involving 3D surface reconstruction from video images taken at multiple views. The method that focuses on fitting the reference model of an obj...

By generalizing the standard solution for 2-person games into n-person cases, this paper develops a new solution concept for cooperative games: the consensus value. We characterize the consensus value as the unique function that satisfies efficiency, symmetry, the quasi dummy property and additivity. By means of the transfer property, a second characterization is provided. By defining the stand...

Handling the procedure interface in an HPF compiler is complex due to the many possible combinations of Fortran 90/HPF properties of an actual array argument and its associated dummy argument. This paper describes an algorithm that reduces this complexity by mapping all the combinations of properties to a small set of canonical Internal Representations. These internal representations as well as...

In the discrete cost sharing model with technological cooperation (Bahel and Trudeau (IJGT, 2013)), we study the implications of a number of properties that strengthen the well-known Dummy axiom. Our main axiom, which requires that costless units of demands do not affect the cost shares, is used to characterize two classes of rules. Combined with anonymity and a specific stability property, thi...

A lone pilot assisted CDMA system is capable of separating the interference components included in a received input by solving a simultaneous equation. This real performance, however, depends on the property of the lone pilot response matrix which is given by the user spreading sequences and the multipath conditions. Consequently, it does not work well whenever the matrix has a wrong property. ...

We propose a method of approximation using a rational polynomial of s for the subglottal impedance of the model of Fredberg and Hoenig, and of realization of an ARMA filter model of the subglottal system. We employ the data of the structure and size of branching network of the subglottal system, and adjust the data for Japanese adults using the MRI data of the trachea. Our subglottal model can ...

It is not rare to analyze large data sets these days. Large data is usually of census type and is called the micro data in econometrics. The basic method of analysis is to estimate a single regression equation with common coefficients over the whole data. The same applies to other method of estimation such as the discrete choice models, Tobit models, and so on. Heterogeneity in the data is usua...

We have successfully fabricated 0.1 μm gate GaAs MESFETs using a low cost process. The result was obtained from optical lithography, resist etching, and ion-implantation technologies based on Single Resist layer Dummy gate (SRD) process. The novel feature of the SRD process is forming a sub-quarter micron gate with conventional optical lithography. We have obtained a 0.18 μm gate using this pro...