With the miniaturization of electronic products, reducing the size of the printed circuit board that forms the backbone of the product is paramount. Embedding passive components, which otherwise occupy valuable “real estate” atop the printed circuit board, into the printed circuit board substrate itself is one way of achieving this objective. This first part of this paper examines the technique...

We report an experiment that examined 3and 4-year-old children’s representation of the passive structure. Early studies of typically-developing children’s acquisition of the passive suggest that this construction is acquired late and – or that its acquisition is semantically constrained: children comprehend actives much earlier than passives and comprehend actional verb passives earlier than no...

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is, according to Reichheld, the single most reliable indicator of company growth, and many companies use this recommendation-based technique for measuring customer loyalty. Despite its widespread adoption by many companies across multiple industries, the debate about NPS goes on. A major concern is that managers treat NPS as being equivalent across customers, which ...

The paper examines how adjectival modification classes can be detected by applying unsupervised methods on adjective-noun co-occurrence data. It evaluates a k-means baseline, two graphical models, and a recently introduced bidirectional clustering algorithm against HeiPLAS, a manually annotated gold standard for hidden modificational classes. The paper shows that the bidirectional clustering al...

This study aims to explore and provide a detailed description of the construction known as “Dative passives” or Recipient passives in Mozambican variety Portuguese, framework Cognitive Grammar (LANGACKER, 1991, 2008) Construction (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006). Particular attention will be paid complex semantic categories passive ditransitive structures order identify which their conceptual aspects lay...

In the following subsections we examine various properties of passives in which Danish, English, and German differ. We look at the morphological passive in Danish in Section 1.1, compare the personal and impersonal pas-sives in the three languages in Section 1.2, examine the possibility to promote the objects in passives of ditransi-tive constructions in Section 1.3. 1.1 Morphological and Analy...

Today's circuit boards have a large percentage of their area taken up by passive components. This space has become a target for further reduction of the system's sizes. A designer has several choices in how to accomplish the implementation of passive functions. These choices include discrete components, arrays, networks and Integrated Passive Devices (IPDs) and embedded components. The choices ...