This paper focuses on the readings of quite as a degree modifier of verbs in written English on the basis of the British National Corpus (BNC). The study explores the semantic constraints that govern the relationship between quite and the verbs it combines with in terms of their conceptualization, which reflects the presence or absence of boundaries, i.e. boundedness/ unboundedness. Two types o...

The behavior of nanoscale energetic materials is quite different from micronsized energetic materials in many ways. Recently, some techniques such as sol-gel method, high speed air impaction and vacuum codeposition have been employed to obtain nanoscale energetic materials. However, only few attentions were paid to nanoscale energetic materials because of the fabrication difficulty. In this pap...

Recently, it has been observed that a new method for generating continuous distributions, T - X family, can be quite effectively used to analyze the data in one dimension. The aim of this study is to generalize this method to two dimensional space so that the marginals would have T - X distributions. So, several examples and properties of this family have been presented. As ...

Good corporate governance undoubtedly is a key to sustainable private sector development and basic element for healthy firms (Kostyuk, Braendle, & Capizzi, 2018). However, in Greece, the relevant legal framework was until recently anachronistic, whilst recent scandals Greek capital market revealed regulatory gaps internal external control mechanisms applied by listed companies exacerbated n...

A striking aspect of the initial reception John Rawls is that he was embraced by leading market-liberal theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan. This article investigates reasons for free-market right's sympathetic interest in early providing a historical account dialogue between his key neoliberal interlocutor, We set out common intellectual context, notably influence Frank Knight...