Kaplan et al. (1989) present a framework for translation based on the description and correspondence concepts of LexicalFunctional Grammar (Kaplan and Bresnan, 1982). Certain phenomena, in particular the head-switching of adverbs and verbs, seem to be problematic for that approach. In this paper we suggest that these difficulties are more properly considered as the result of defective monolingu...

This paper argues first that, contrary to what one would expect, metaphorical interpretations of utterances pass two of Cappelan and Lepore’s Minimalist tests for semantic context-sensitivity. I then propose how, in light of that result, one might analyze metaphors on the model of indexicals and demonstratives, expressions that (even) Minimalists agree are semantically context-dependent. This a...

Yeon-Koo Che and Ian Gale (1998) [CG, hereafter] studied the impact of imposing a cap on lobbying expenditures. They showed that a cap may lead to (1) greater expected aggregate expenditure and (2) a less efficient allocation of a political prize. In their comment, Todd Kaplan and David Wettstein (2005) [KW, hereafter] show that if the cap is not rigid (i.e., its effect on the cost of lobbying ...

We show how the link variables of Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan (ACCK), can be used to compute general gluon tree amplitudes in the twistor string. They arise from instanton sectors labelled by d, with d = n− 1, where n is the number of negative helicities. Read backwards, this shows how the various forms for the tree amplitudes studied by ACCK can be grouped into contour integrals w...

3 he increasing number of international companies and the cooling global economy coincide to highlight the popular topic of cultural differences and their impact on the measurement of business unit performance. Just as a “rising tide lifts all boats,” an expanding global economy helps almost every company. But as the growth fueled by economic expansion decreases, the need for reliable measures ...

Application of rough set based tools to the post-surgery survival analysis is discussed. Decision problem is defined over data related to the head and neck cancer cases, for two types of medical surgeries. The task is to express the differences between expected results of these surgeries and to search for rules discerning different survival tendencies. The rough set framework is combined with t...

The delta method is a popular and elementary tool for deriving limiting distributions of transformed statistics, while applications of asymptotic distributions do not allow one to obtain desirable accuracy of approximation for tail probabilities. The large and moderate deviation theory can achieve this goal. Motivated by the delta method in weak convergence, a general delta method in large devi...

This study integrates the principles of pattern-based classification and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis to identify genes and clinical features associated with the rapid progression of chronic kidney disease. The methodology successfully determines the gene-gene survival interactions in the African-American Study of Chronic Kidney Disease with Hypertension (AASK) genomic dataset. The results ob...

The Kaplan-Yorke conjecture suggests a simple relationship between the fractal dimension of a system and its Lyapunov spectrum. This relationship has important consequences in the broad field of nonlinear dynamics where dimension and Lyapunov exponents are frequently used descriptors of system dynamics. We develop an experimental system with controllable dimension by making use of the Kaplan-Yo...

The idea that phonological neutralization is constrained by the communicative function of lexical contrast has a long history (e.g., Trubetzkoy 1939, Martinet 1955, Hockett 1967). A few case-studies have asked whether occurring neutralizations have a lower impact on lexical contrast than non-occurring ones, either by creating fewer homophones (e.g., Silverman 2010, Kaplan in press) or by incurr...