The problem is that many natural language expression types lead a double life, simultaneously here and there, masquerading as a local lump but somehow interacting directly with distant elements. The two main examples discussed here are bound anaphora, in which an anaphor depends for its value on some distant binder; and quantification, in which some local element takes semantic scope over a pro...

The integrated US Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) has made great strides in strategic preparedness and response capabilities. There have been numerous advances in planning, biothreat countermeasure development, licensure, manufacturing, stockpiling and deployment. Increased biodefense surveillance capability has dramatically improved, while new tools and incr...

Successful interaction with a changing environment requires learning from previous experience and applying such knowledge in adjusting motor commands in a predictive way. To investigate how control strategies are affected by internal models of the statistical properties of the environment, we tested subjects in reaching movements using a virtual reality system and perturbed the target in non-ra...

The advance of high bandwidth communication technologies has created opportunites for various multimedia applications, such as video-on-demand (VOD). We consider in this chapter four types of scheduling which are required for VOD systems: viewer scheduling, stream scheduling, disk copy scheduling and disk arm scheduling. Viewer scheduling focuses on how to maximize the sharing of video streams ...

Our current understanding is that plant species distribution in the subtropical mountain forests of Southwest China is controlled mainly by inadequate warmth. Due to abundant annual precipitation, aridity has been less considered in this context, yet rainfall here is highly seasonal, and the magnitude of drought severity at different elevations has not been examined due to limited access to hig...

BACKGROUND Using a large cohort of western Canadian sawmill workers (n = 28,794), the association between psychosocial work conditions and attempted and completed suicide was investigated. METHODS Records of attempted and completed suicide were accessed through a provincial hospital discharge registry to identify cases that were then matched using a nested case control method. Psychosocial wo...

The medium density fiberboard (MDF) market demand was investigated during the years from 2004 to 2013 in Iran. Estimation of MDF demand was made by exponential smoothing method by the year 2018. The insight into the level of demand that might exist by the year 2013 was obtained by reviewing the production, import, export, and consumption of MDF on the Iran. The results show that the consumption...

In recent years, with the advancements in information and communication technology, different emerging on-demand shared mobility services have been introduced as innovative solutions low-density areas, including transit (ODT), (MOD) transit, crowdsourced services. However, due to their infancy, there is a strong need understand model demand for these this study, we developed trip production dis...