We show that a practical translation of MRS descriptions into normal dominance constraints is feasible. We start from a recent theoretical translation and verify its assumptions on the outputs of the English Resource Grammar (ERG) on the Redwoods corpus. The main assumption of the translation— that all relevant underspecified descriptions are nets—is validated for a large majority of cases; all...

Supersymmetry is perhaps most effectively probed at the Tevatron through production and decay of weak gauginos. Most of the analyses of weak gaugino observables require electrons or muons in the final state. However, it is possible that the gauginos will decay primarily to τ leptons, thus complicating the search for supersymmetry. The motivating reasons for high τ multiplicity final states are ...

4any current perfect hashing algorithms suffer from the problem of pattern collisions. In this paper, a perfect hashing technique that uses array-based tries and a simple sparse matrix packing algorithm is introduced. This technique eliminates all pattern collisions, and because of this it can be used to form ordered minimal perfect hash functions on extremely large word lists. This algorithm i...

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that cognition is better explicated as a much more general biological phenomenon, allowing the lower bound of cognition to extend much further down the phylogenetic scale. We argue that elementary forms of cognition can alread...

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that cognition is better explicated as a much more general biological phenomenon, allowing the lower bound of cognition to extend much further down the phylogenetic scale. We argue that elementary forms of cognition can alread...

We present a purely model-theoretic semantics for disjunctive logic programs with negation, building on the infinite-valued approach recently introduced for normal logic programs [11]. In particular, we show that every disjunctive logic program with negation has a nonempty set of minimal infinite-valued models. Moreover, we show that the infinite-valued semantics can be equivalently defined usi...

We propose a transformer building a silent self-stabilizing with service guarantee 1-hop clustering protocol T P of an input silent self-stabilizing 1-hop clustering protocol P. From an arbitrary configuration, T P reaches a safe configuration in at most 3 rounds, where the following useful minimal service is provided: “each node belongs to a 1-hop cluster having an effective leader”. During st...

Objectives: Different treatment approaches have been introduced for children with Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). Minimal pair intervention, Metaphon therapy, and parents and children together approach as linguistically-based approaches are routinely utilized in this population and both of them shared minimal pairs as a common component. The purpose of the current study was to develop and investi...

The paper arose from the fact that the smallest element of the set of Salem numbers is not known. Indeed, it is not even known whether this set has a smallest element. The aim of this paper is to prove that the minimal polynomial of the smallest Salem series of degree n in the field of formal power series over a finite field is given by P (Y ) = Y n −XY n−1 − Y + X − 1, where we suppose that 1 ...