Certain recurrent consonant-vowel co-occurrence frequency biases have often been attributed to the biomechanics of the mandible. This paper takes issue with this claim by pointing to some methodological flaws in the literature supporting it. CV co-occurrence data on Spanish and Portuguese are brought to bear on such neglected issues as sampling, effect size, and count type. It is shown that sma...

A key challenge in vocabulary acquisition is learning which of the many possible meanings is appropriate for a word. The word generalization problem refers to how children associate a word such as dog with a meaning at the appropriate category level in a taxonomy of objects, such as Dalmatians, dogs, or animals. We present the first computational study of word generalization integrated within a...

We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent...

The concept of a function is of great importance in design. This paper describes from theory how designers should reason about functions when designing. This paper introduces the link model, showing how functions and properties link the product and its use, to the perceived value of the product. The important and useful distinction between functions and properties is made along with the distinc...

Bertrand’s postulate is an early result on the distribution of prime numbers: For every positive integer n, there exists a prime number that lies strictly between n and 2n. The proof is ported from John Harrison’s formalisation in HOL Light [1]. It proceeds by first showing that the property is true for all n greater than or equal to 600 and then showing that it also holds for all n below 600 b...

<p class="p1">In this article, I analyse the infamous Cathy Newman interview with Jordan Peterson on 16th of January 2018 and subsequent viewer comments Channel 4's YouTube channel. My first hypothesis is that Newman's frequent attribution statements to using now notorious "so you are saying" gambit (YSG) what triggered outrage among Peterson's followers, which, in turn, generated media i...

The historical demonstration by Furchgott and Zawadzki that removal of the endothelium abrogates the in vitro vasodilator effect of acetylcholine has led to the identification 30 years ago of nitric oxide (NO) as a major endogenous local regulator of vascular tone. When the ability of endothelial cells to produce NO is blunted, the ensuing vascular dysfunction sets the stage for the occurrence ...

If all of the moduli vary on the scale Mp, then all terms here are of the same order. O(1) effects in the Kahler potential can stabilize the moduli, while the −3|W | term can cancel the cosmological constant[1]. This is not the case if one has a low scale of supersymmetry breaking. The term −3|W | above is then simply too small to cancel the cosmological constant, unless there are some other in...