The paper assesses the consequences of gradience for approaches to variation based on the Principles and Parameters model. In particular, the discussion focuses on recent crosslinguistic results obtained through magnitude estimation, a methodology particularly suited to the study of gradient acceptability/grammaticality. Results on superiority and relativised minimality effects in questions are...

The duty to obtain consent from a litigant before beginning a forensic evaluation has fallen to the forensic psychologist. Guidelines, ethical standards, and commentators have made this assumed duty mandatory. Unfortunately, psychologists are not able to provide accurate and detailed legal information concerning the forensic evaluation. Only a person trained in the law would be qualified, and t...

pappi is a multilingual, Prolog-based parsing system designed for implementing theories in the Principles-and-Parameters framework. This report describes the Japanese version of the system. In particular, it reviews how the core system can be extended to handle a variety of Japanese phenomena, including anti-superiority, indirect passives and potentials, o/ni -causative and dative subject const...

PETR HLINĚNÝ1,2,*, SANG-IL OUM3,7, DETLEF SEESE4 AND GEORG GOTTLOB5,6 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic VŠB, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160, USA Institute AIFB, University Karlsruhe (TH), D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Oxford University Comput...

Hunger strike is a common form of protest in prisons and is a potential cause of many types of problems, both for the prison administration and the doctors who care for prisoners who participate in one. Issues of conflict of rights and obligations involved, and how to treat people who are subject to the Administration, which in this case takes the position of guarantor, have created major contr...

Abundance calculations for the p-nuclei involve an extended network of about 20,000 nuclear reactions of almost 2,000 nuclei. These rates are calculated with the statistical Hauser Feshbach Model (HF-Model). Elastic scattering experimental data provides a test for the global parameterizations of optical potentials that are used in these statistical model calculations. Recent experiments suggest...

to explain the strategic plan to achieve a new islamic civilization in its various fields and dimensions, a general and scientific structure must be exploited which in accordance with facts of existence from the universe and of human being. this research believes that this general structure along with its entire steps, resources and the foundations of every single one of those steps has been di...

In this paper, the unsteady oscillatory flows of a generalized Burgers’ fluid in a rotating frame are investigated. The constitutive equations of the generalized Burgers’ fluid are used in the mathematical formulation of the problem. The solutions are obtained by using the Laplace transform method. The graphical results are displayed and discussed for various parameters of interest. It is found...

Fault detection, fault isolation and fault diagnosis are addressed within a statistical framework. The corresponding inference problems are stated. Several statistical tools for solving these inference problems are described. Particular emphasis is put on dealing with nuisance parameters and deciding between multiple hypotheses. How to use these tools for solving FDI problems is discussed. An e...