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One of the remarkable properties of Verb Second (V2) syntax is the fact that the constituent preceding the finite verb – let’s for simplicity call it ‘SpecCP’ – can under certain circumstances be dropped (cf. Ross 1982; Huang 1984; Fries 1988 for German, Ackema & Neeleman 2007 for Dutch). Pronoun drop is strictly confined to pronouns in SpecCP and can only occur in the root clause. In a context...

In September 2001, during follow-up at our outpatient liver unit we detected by ultrasound a hypervascular mass adjacent to the VI hepatic segment in a 78-year-old HCV-positive cirrhotic woman. Subsequently abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed an infiltrative vascularized nodule (3.5 cm in diameter) at the lower border of the VI hepatic segment and magnetic resonance imaging showed a “te...

In this work, a mechanistic model of drop coalescence based upon a stochastic film-drainage analysis is developed. The coalescence model accounts for previously considered factors, such as turbulence intensity, drop size, and drop deformability, while additionally describing the dual effects of drop surface potential and system electrolyte concentration. Model results indicate that electrostati...

This is the Cayley surface when N = 3. The next few are as follows. x4 = x1x3 + 1 2 x2 2 − x1 x2 + 1 4 x1 4 x5 = x1x4 + x2x3 − x1 x3 − x1x2 2 + x1 x2 − 1 5 x1 5 x6 = x1x5 + x2x4 + 1 2 x3 2 − x1 x4 − 2x1x2x3 − 1 3 x2 3 + x1 x3 + 3 2 x1 x2 2 − x1 x2 + 1 6 x1 . Since the first term in (1) is −xN and this is the only occurrence of this variable, these hypersurfaces are polynomial graphs over the re...

This paper presents an experimental study on thin liquid drops and films under the combined action of centrifugal forces due to rotation and radial Marangoni forces due to a corresponding temperature gradient. We shall examine thinning of a given liquid layer both with and without rotation and also consider the onset of the fingering instability in a completely wetting liquid drop. In many of t...

Recent work by Tajmar and de Matos predicts a greatly enhanced gravitomagnetic field is measurable in the vicinity of a rotating superconductor. They predict that the associated frame dragging is measurable when the density of Cooper pairs is sufficiently large relative to the mass density. Experimental measurements with superconducting lead and niobium samples reported by the same group suppor...

Twenty-nine English language activities were implemented on a touch-tablet computer. Some activities were focused on a single skill (e.g. reading or speaking), while others involved several integrated skills (e.g. listening and writing). Materials were presented in several modalities, including speech only, speech with figure, silent video, text, speech with text, and speech with text and figur...