Written German is characterized by an underrepresentation of prosody. During writing acquisition, children have to tackle the question which prosodic features are realized by what means - if any. We examined traces of speech prosody in German children's writing to dictation. A sample of 79 second graders were asked to write down eight sentences to dictation. We analyzed three potential reflecti...

most studies within the area of genre analysis, particularly those conducted in iran, have exclusively used text analysis. while such investigations have led to important understandings of generic features of texts, it can be argued that incorporating interview data for triangulation can lead to better understanding of generic features of texts. along this line, this paper reports the results o...

In the present article the syntactic approach to construction of generic models generalizing known semantic one is described. It is established a sufficient condition of homogeneity of generic model.It is shown that at the syntactic approach any countable homogeneous model is generic. Criterions and a sufficient condition of saturation of generic models formed at the syntactic way of its constr...

Gradual Uniqueness Effect: A Pragmatic Explanation The uniqueness effects in definite noun phrases have been the subject of much debate (Heim 1982, Kadmon 1990, Lyons 1999, Szabó 2000, Roberts 2003). Some claim uniqueness is part of the semantics of the definite article, while others derive it pragmatically. Both sides assume that the uniqueness condition is categorical, and so the only thing t...

This review highlights general toxicology concerns caused by formulation differences between generic and innovator drugs. It underscores the importance of a scientific, clinically oriented, evidence-based comparative safety evaluation procedure for generic drugs and discusses representative case studies from a pharmacology-toxicology perspective. For consideration by generic drug industry stake...

In this article the major genetic disorders and the modes of their transmission is discussed. We have also briefly mentioned the modalities by which many of the genetic diseases can be detected before birth. The genetic counselling is helpful in many ways in order to advise the parents for keeping the fetus or terminating the pregnancy. The physician can reduce the anxiety of the parents, but t...

A series of self-paced reading time experiments was performed to assess how characteristics of noun phrases (NPs) contribute to the difference in processing difficulty between objectand subject-extracted relative clauses. Structural semantic characteristics of the NP in the embedded clause (definite vs. indefinite and definite vs. generic) did not influence the magnitude of the processing diffi...

The Conjugate Gradient method (CGM) is known to be the fastest generic iterative method for solving linear systems with symmetric sign definite matrices. In this paper, we modify this method so that it could find fundamental solitary waves of nonlinear Hamiltonian equations. The main obstacle that such a modified CGM overcomes is that the operator of the equation linearized about a solitary wav...

The Line Sum Scaling problem for a nonnegative matrix A is to find positive definite diagonal matrices Y , Z which result in prescribed row and column sums of the scaled matrix Y AZ. The Matrix Balancing problem for a nonnegative square matrix A is to find a positive definite diagonal matrix X such that the row sums in the scaled matrix XAX are equal to the corresponding column sums. We demonst...