Written German is characterized by an underrepresentation of prosody. During writing acquisition, children have to tackle the question which prosodic features are realized by what means - if any. We examined traces of speech prosody in German children's writing to dictation. A sample of 79 second graders were asked to write down eight sentences to dictation. We analyzed three potential reflecti...

1. Definitions 2. Current and Continuing Concerns of Health and Development in Border Areas 2.1. The universal neglect and marginalization of border areas, border communities and border crossers impact communities beyond the borders. 2.2. Borders are crucial entry points for communicable diseases which, if not properly managed, would affect the country’s population significantly. 2.3 Border com...

The Role of Borders, Languages, and Currencies as Obstacles to Labor Market Integration* Based on a modified Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Model (STAR), we analyze whether borders still constitute significant impediments to labor market integration in the European Union, despite the formal law of free movement of labor. Using regional data from the EU-15 countries over 21 years, we find that th...

We report two cases of choroidal neurofibromatosis, detected with the aid of indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) in patients with neurofibromatosis (NF)-1, otherwise having obscure findings based on ophthalmoscopy and fluoresceine angiography (FA). In case 1, the ophthalmoscopic exam showed diffuse bright or yellowish patched areas with irregular and blunt borders at the posterior pole. The FA...

We consider a slowly rotating rectangular billiard with slowly moving borders. We use methods of the canonical perturbation theory to describe the dynamics of a billiard particle. In the process of slow evolution certain resonance conditions can be satisfied. We study the phenomena of scattering on a resonance and capture into a resonance. These phenomena lead to destruction of adiabatic invari...

We present the case of a 77-year-old patient with a history of hypertension and glaucoma, who was admitted to our hospital for symptoms of dyspnea at rest, with no cough or expectoration. As a casual finding on the chest radiograph (Fig. 1A and B) , a saccular image was observed with well-defined borders at the level of the left hilum (arrows 1A), extending toward the retrosternal space (arrow ...

We introduce a new kind of patterns, called emerging patterns (EPs), for knowledge discovery from databases. EPs are deened as itemsets whose supports increase signiic-antly from one dataset to another. EPs can capture emerging trends in timestamped databases, or useful contrasts between data classes. EPs have been proven useful: we have used them to build very powerful classiiers, which are mo...

Neurons in the middle temporal visual area (MT) of macaque cerebral cortex are highly selective for the direction of motion but not the color of a moving stimulus. Recent experiments have shown, however, that the directional selectivity of many MT neurons persists even when a moving stimulus is defined solely by chromatic variation (Charles and Logothetis, 1989; Saito et al., 1989; Dobkins and ...