Roland, Douglas William (Ph.D., Linguistics) Verb Sense and Verb Subcategorization Probabilities Thesis directed by Associate Professor Daniel S. Jurafsky This dissertation investigates a variety of problems in psycholinguistics and computational linguistics caused by the differences in verb subcategorization probabilities found between various corpora and experimental data sets. For psycholing...

We present a factorized compositional distributional semantics model for the representation of transitive verb constructions. Our model first produces (subject, verb) and (verb, object) vector representations based on the similarity of the nouns in the construction to each of the nouns in the vocabulary and the tendency of these nouns to take the subject and object roles of the verb. These vect...

background: hepatic steatosis due to estrogen therapyincreases the activity of inflammatory markers, particularly theactivity of tnfα which in turn induces more lipogenesis.omega-3 fatty acids are among the negative regulators of hepaticlipogenesis. objectives: in this research, the preventive effectof omega-3 fatty acids on estrogen-induced steatosis in rats wasevaluated. methods:2 mg/kg. bw/s...

Neuropeptides of the cockroach allatostatin (AST) family are known for their ability to inhibit the production of juvenile hormone by the corpora allata of cockroaches. Since their discovery, they have also been shown to modulate myotropic activity in a range of insect species as well as to act as neurotransmitters in Crustaceans and possibly in insects. The midgut of cockroaches contains numer...

Predictive syntactic processing plays an essential role in language comprehension. In our previous study using Japanese object-verb (OV) sentences, we showed that the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) responses to a verb increased at 120-140 ms after the verb onset, indicating predictive effects caused by a preceding object. To further elucidate the automaticity of the predictive effects in the...

In Czech corpora compound verb groups are usually tagged in word-by-word manner. As a consequence, some of the morphological tags of particular components of the verb group lose their original meaning. We present a method for automatic recognition of compound verb groups in Czech. From an annotated corpus 126 definite clause grammar rules were constructed. These rules describe all compound verb...

PURPOSE Astaxanthin (AST) is a carotenoid that is found in marine animals and vegetables. Several previous studies have demonstrated that AST exhibits a wide variety of biological activities including antioxidant, antitumor, and anti-Helicobacter pylori effects. In this study, attention was focused on the antioxidant effect of AST. The object of the present study was to investigate the efficacy...

Enzymatic sulfation of N-hydroxylated arylamines by mammalian hepatic cytosol sulfotransferases (AST; EC 2.8.2.1) is an important metabolic step which generates ultimate carcinogens. The metabolic activity of AST IV, the putative isozymic form of AST primarily responsible for catalyzing N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene sulfation, is modulated during 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF)-induced rat hepato...

This paper presents examples in which hlk ‘walk, go’ and ʔth ‘come’ appear multi-verb constructions conforming to the definition of asymmetrical serial verb (SVCs). In these constructions, do not be used with their concrete lexical senses as verbs constituting predicate a separate clause. Rather, they are found V1 position minor contributing an aspectual nuance immediacy major V2 position. Broa...