In previous work, we used techniques from mathematical logic and model theory to study and compare two phonological theories, SPE and Government Phonology. The surprising result was that Government Phonology corresponds to a very weak fragment of SPE, yet it can attain the full expressivity of the latter through more powerful mechanisms of feature spreading. An issue that we didn’t elaborate on...

Ecological character displacement occurs when competition imposes divergent selection on interacting species, causing divergence in traits associated with resource use. Generally, divergence is assumed to occur when selection acts on the same, continuously varying trait in both species. However, selection might target multiple traits, and even closely related heterospecifics involved in charact...

BACKGROUND Global accessibility and dissemination of developments in pediatric endocrinology prompted to examine how to develop an educational interactive e-SPE web portal. METHODS A systematic approach was used to identify the relevant aspects of accessibility and dissemination. An orientation at the big idea was made, executed by an analysis of the needs of student and teacher pediatric end...

PCA based temperature controller was used to control Ethanol concentration produced in Yeast fermentation process. The controller was designed at a specific operating point and its disturbance rejection performances were studied. Substrate inlet temperature proved to be the most significant disturbance input from the analysis of open loop responses. Q-statistic (SPE) of process measurements con...

Since the late 1980s several studies have described the increased incidence and severity of invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) infections. However, most studies on GAS pathogenesis have focused on information obtained during outbreaks. We analyzed isolate distribution and host susceptibility as part of a nationwide prospective surveillance study performed between January 2001 and August 2002....

Veterinary antibiotics evaluation in environmental samples is a very important subject principally because of the development of antibacterial resistance. In this work two SPE-LC-MS/MS methods (acid and basic) were compared and adapted for amoxicillin, lincomycin and tiamulin antibiotics analysis in swine manure. The results showed that the basic method is more suitable for the simultaneous det...

Slime Mould Algorithm (SMA) has been widely noticed by researchers for its powerful multi-point search capability and simple feasible structure, many advanced versions of SMA have also proposed. However, most existing methods focus on the single-objective research domain, multi-objective remains relatively scarce; moreover, basic lacks global capability, extension to domain easily leads loss so...