The goal of the present paper is to study interference between French and English prosody. In order to study the influence of the prosody on the second language pronunciation, F0 slopes and vowel durations of the last syllables of prosodic groups were measured and analyzed in the pronunciation of French native speakers speaking French and English, and of English native speakers speaking English...

Manyeconomicmodels andoptimizationproblemsgenerate (endogenous) shadow prices—alias dual variables or Lagrange multipliers. Frequently the “slopes” of resulting price curves—that is, multiplier derivatives—are of great interest. These objects relate to the Jacobian of the optimality conditions. That particular matrix often has block structure. So, we derive explicit formulas for the inverse of ...

The traditional mapping on digital aerial photos and elevation models has its limits at steep slopes where the surface is only very sparsely sampled even in high resolution data sets. As a consequence, there is too few information available to perform a detailed mapping. In this paper we present a framework for augmenting terrain data with additional photos and show how to utilize this addition...

The science of morphological allometry centers around relationships between the size of organismal structures and overall body size. Morphological allometry usually is concerned with two parameters, the slope of log–log plots of trait parameters on body mass or size (reflecting how trait size varies with body size), and the intercept of such plots (providing measures of body-size–independent tr...

In 3 experiments, college students provided qualitative predictions about a marble's speed along nonlinear inclines. When predicting the outcome of a race between identical marbles along differently shaped ramps, most students predicted incorrectly that the shorter path was necessarily quicker (the shorter-quicker belief). When comparing instantaneous speed at 2 points, most students predicted ...

If r = 12 and (uij) is the matrix of the U operator in the above basis, then the numbers uij satisfy a recurrence formula: there is a p × p matrix M such that uij = ∑p r,s=1Mrsui−r,j−s. Furthermore, M is skew-upper-triangular and constant on off diagonals; and the coefficients uij satisfy uij = jiuji. The case p = 2 is extensively studied in [BC05]. Here the recurrence relation is simple enough...

We fix a monic polynomial f(x) ∈ Fq[x] over a finite field and consider the Artin-Schreier-Witt tower defined by f(x); this is a tower of curves · · · → Cm → Cm−1 → · · · → C0 = A, with total Galois group Zp. We study the Newton slopes of zeta functions of this tower of curves. This reduces to the study of the Newton slopes of L-functions associated to characters of the Galois group of this tow...

LetM = H+∪SH− be a genus g Heegaard splitting with Heegaard distance n ≥ κ + 2: (1) Let c1, c2 be two slopes in the same component of ∂−H−, such that the natural Heegaard splitting M i = H+ ∪S (H− ∪ci 2 − handle) has distance less than n, then the distance of c1 and c2 in the curve complex of ∂−H− is at most 3M+ 2, where κ and M are constants due to Masur-Minsky. (2) Let M∗ be the manifold obta...

In response to the paper by Keown and Jochemsen in which the latest empirical data concerning euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in the Netherlands is discussed, this paper discusses three points. The use of euthanasia in cases in which palliative care was a viable alternative may be taken as proof of a slippery slope. However, it could also be interpreted as an indication of a shift to...