The primary proposal of this thesis that in questions, a “Q” morpheme must undergo syntactic movement from a clause-internal position to a clause-peripheral position. Throughout this thesis, we develop a syntactic analysis and a semantic formalism for questions that accounts for the facts observed in wh-in-situ languages (focusing mainly on Japanese, Sinhala, Shuri Okinawan, and premodern Japan...

The l\[oebius fun ct ion Ik on the Ialti ce of k-de n ~e subg ra phs of a co nnccted graph, defin ed in a pre vious pa per, is calcu lated fo r graphs G containing isthmu scs and a rt icul ators. IJ evaluated for the null graph q, is shown to van ish if a contain s a n isthmus, whi Ie for a ny integer q there exist graphs containing a r t iculators for whi ch II (q,) = q. The " lattice of path ...

The “position” and “momentum” operators for the q-deformed oscillator with q being a root of unity are proved to have discrete eigenvalues which are roots of deformed Hermite polynomials. The Fourier transform connecting the “position” and “momentum” representations is also found. The phase space of this oscillator has a lattice structure, which is a non-uniformly distributed grid. Non-equidist...

Abstract We consider the high spin expansion for null geodesics in Kerr spacetime. expand geodesic equation successively to higher orders deviation from extremality. Via method of matched asymptotic expansion, radial integrals are obtained analytically. It turns out that analytic expressions very sensitive value shifted Carter constant q . show a large , can be used study observational electrom...

In this paper, a new method was proposed for the navigation of a mobile robot in an unknown dynamic environment. The robot could detect only a limited radius of its surrounding with its sensors and it went on the shortest null space (SNS) toward the goal. In the case of no obstacle, SNS was a direct path from the robot to goal; however, in the presence of obstacles, SNS was a space around the r...

classical control methods such as pontryagin maximum principle and bang-bang principle and other methods are not usually useful for solving opti-mal control systems (ocs) specially optimal control of nonlinear systems (ocns). in this paper, we introduce a new approach for solving ocns by using some combination of atomic measures. we define a criterion for controllability of lumped nonlinear con...

Consider a general polynomial system S in x1, . . . , xn of degree q and its corresponding vector of monomials of degree less than or equal to q. The system can be written as M0 · [xq1, xq−1 1 x2, . . . , xn, x1, . . . , xn, 1] = [0, 0, . . . , 0, 0, . . . , 0, 0] (1) in terms of its coefficient matrix M0. Here and hereafter, [...] T means the transposition. Further, [ξ1, ξ2, . . . , ξn] is one...

Background: HLA-G gene contains 15 alleles including a null allele, HLA-G*0105N. Previous studies have shown that HLA-G*0105N does not encode the complete HLA-G1 or HLA-G5 isoforms but encodes a functional HLA-G protein with the ability to in-hibit NK cell cytolysis. Thus, although the biological functions of HLA-G1 and HLA-G5 proteins are abrogated, other isoforms such as HLA-G2 can replace th...

email: [email protected]. This research was supported in part by the NSF grant PHY-97-22101. Present address for S.-H. Tsai: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. W is an analytic function of q except on a continuous locus B (B may be null, and there may also be isolated singularities of W ). As n → ∞, the locus B forms via coalescence of a subset of ...