this paper addresses the validity of two hypotheses concerning changes of vowel quality in persian. the theory of centralization claims that there is a strong correlation between vowel duration and vowel quality. as vowel duration is shortened in unstressed contexts, the size of the vowel inventory reduces toward the center, leading to considerable overlap between different categories and a red...

We adopt a geometric perspective on Fock space to provide two complementary insights into the eigenstates in many-body localized fermionic systems. On one hand, individual many-body-localized are well approximated by Slater determinant of single-particle orbitals. other orbitals different given system display varying, and generally imperfect, degree compatibility, as we quantify measure based p...

In many practical domains, planning systems are required to reason about durative actions. A common assumption in the literature is that the executor is allowed to decide the duration of each action. However, this assumption may be too restrictive for applications. In this paper, we tackle the problem of temporal planning with uncontrollable action durations. We show how to generate robust plan...

We investigate the occurrence and nature of naked singularities in the Szekeres space-times. These space-times represent irrotational dust. They do not have any Killing vectors and they are generalisations of the Tolman-Bondi-Lemâıtre space-times. It is shown that in these space-times there exist naked singularities that satisfy both the limiting focusing condition and the strong limiting focus...

Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert spaceH, T a self-mapping of C. Recall that T is said to be nonexpansive if ‖Tx − Ty‖ ≤ ‖x − y‖, for all x, y ∈ C. Construction of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings via Mann’s iteration 1 has extensively been investigated in literature see, e.g., 2–5 and reference therein . But the convergence about Mann’s iteration and Ishikawa’s iterati...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people's living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for different age and socioeconomic groups. Furthermore, it is analysed separately for urban and more rural areas, because the strength of the relation was expected to vary with urbanity. DESIGN The study in...