This paper presents an analysis of indirect passives in Japanese in terms of event structure and qualia structure proposed in the framework of the generative lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). On the assumption that the event structure of the indirect passive construction is based on the causative structure, the present analysis accounts for the adversative interpretation of indirect passive sentences...

For any minor-closed class of matroids over a fixed finite field, we state an exact structural characterization for the sufficiently connected matroids in the class. We also state a number of conjectures that might be approachable using the structural characterization. This paper is dedicated to James Oxley on the occasion of his 60th Birthday.

The famous R. James’ Theorem (see [3–7] and [8]) asserts that a Banach space E is reflexive if and only if the closed unit ball UE has the James’ property, i.e. every continuous linear functional f of E attains its supremum in UE. James’ Theorem does not hold, however, for general normed spaces [6]. We prove in this talk that a normed space X is reflexive if and only if UX has the separation pr...

Like many other early psychologists, William James was fascinated by hypnosis and related phenomena. For James, hypnosis was both an experimental technique for creating divisions of consciousness, and a laboratory model of naturally occurring disorders of awareness. James' treatment of consciousness in hypnosis presages contemporary interests in dissociation and implicit cognition, and undersco...

For matroids M and N on disjoint sets S and T , a semidirect sum of M and N is any matroid K on S ∪ T that, like the direct sum and the free product, has the restrictionK|S equal toM and the contractionK/S equal toN . We abstract a matrix construction to get a general matroid construction: the matroid union of any rank-preserving extension ofM on the set S ∪ T with the direct sum ofN and the ra...

New corporate compliance regulations such as the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 contain requirements for the chief executive and financial officers to certify the effectiveness of internal controls and processes leading to financial reporting. An inevitable result of implementing compliance with these regulations is an increased focus on improving systems and greater interdependence between t...

Dept. of Pharmaceutics, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmaceutical analysis, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, St James College of Pharmaceutical sciences, Chalakudy, Kerala Dept. of Pharmaceutical ...