the present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced iranian learners of english as a foreign language. the study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and wh-clefts. after taking the nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

The purpose of a financial manager in dividend policy is to maximize the wealth of its owners while providing adequate funds for the company. In this research, the aim is to determine the relationship between information asymmetry, dividend policies and ownership structure. After designing information asymmetry evaluation indicators, the transaction information has been collected from the Stock...

Eric K. Clemens Robert A. Schwartz Bruce W. Weber Department of Operations and Department of Finance Department of Information Systems Information Management Baruch College School of Business Stern School of Business The Wharton School 17 Lexington Avenue Management Education Center 9-71 University of Pennsylvania BOX E-0621 New York University Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 New York, NY 1OO1O New...

In modern quantum information theory one deals with an idealized situation when the spacetime dependence of quantum phenomena is neglected. However the transmission and processing of (quantum) information is a physical process in spacetime. Therefore such basic notions in quantum information theory as qubit, channel, composite systems and entangled states should be formulated in space and time....

Information structure has been assumed to be an autonomous part of grammar for more than 100 years. It is represented as a partition of the sentence into two units, e.g., focus background, topic comment, focus topic, focus presupposition etc.1 Even though information structure is sometimes understood as textual or discourse structure, its organizational level is still defined with respect to th...

This paper, in the context of multilingual MT, proposes the use of ICONS (Individual CONstraintS) to add a representation of information structure to MRS. The value of ICONS is a list of objects of type info-str, each of which has the features CLAUSE and TARGET. The subtypes of info-str indicate which information structural role is played by the TARGET with respect to the CLAUSE. This proposal ...

PROGRESS IN GENETIC engineering, X-ray crystallography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and the advent of cheap and powerful computers, have brought about an exponential growth of data on macromolecular three-dimensional structures. Although the number of protein structures known today (approximately 3500) is still well below that of protein sequences (over 50 000), its growth...

The imperfective aspect in Russian competes with the perfective in referring to events whose existence is entailed by the input context. In the first, major part of the paper (sections 1-5) I take a global view on aspectual competition, which is analyzed in light of various pragmatic constraints. It is shown in a bidirectional optimization how the default/unmarked imperfective in the appropriat...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would firstly like to thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. Dan Everett, for his excellent help and encouragement with this thesis. Thanks are also due to the other members of my committee, Dr. ABSTRACT This paper examines aspects of information structure in Acadian French, focusing on the use of detached (also referred to as 'moved' or 'dislocated') syntactic structures in the spo...