The issue of markedness of tonal accents in North Germanic (most Swedish and Norwegian dialects) has never been settled. For a long time, it looked like there was reasonable agreement that the distinction was privative and that it was accent 2 that was marked, accent 1 representing default intonation (Sweet, 1877:155, Elert, 1964:197, Haugen, 1967, Kristoffersen, 1993, Riad, 1998). Recently – a...

Title of Document: HIERARCHICAL BAYES ESTIMATION AND EMPIRICAL BEST PREDICTION OF SMALLAREA PROPORTIONS Benmei Liu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Partha Lahiri Joint Program in Survey Methodology Estimating proportions of units with a given characteristic for small areas using small area estimation (SAE) techniques is a common problem in survey research. The direct survey es...

The main object of the present paper is to derive some results for multivalent analytic functions defined by a linear operators. As a special case of these results, we obtain several sufficient conditions for close-to-convexity and starlikeness of certain analytic functions.

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye’de sağlık çevirmenliğine ilişkin olarak yürütülen akademik çalışmalarda inşa edilen çevirmen imgesinin ışığında, Jhumpa Lahiri’nin (1999) “Interpreter of Maladies” adlı öyküsünde kurgulanan imgesine bakmaktır. 2000 yılında “Dert Yorumcusu” başlığıyla Türkçeye çevrilen öyküde, çevirmenliğin görev tanımı ve kapsamı kurgusal düzeyde sorgulanmakta çevirmenden beklenen s...

Identification of matching records in multiple files can be a challenging and error-prone task. Linkage error considerably affect subsequent statistical analysis based on the resulting linked file. Several recent papers have studied post-linkage linear regression with response variable one file covariates second from perspective "Broken Sample Problem" "Permuted Data". In this paper, we present...