We present event-related brain potential evidence from language comprehension that the N400-modulation during noun-phrase integration is a function of the type of referential dependency that is established (identity versus inference) and the saliency (in the following understood as the sum of factors that influence the degree of accessibility of an entity in the mental model) of the information...

This paper looks at the use of drop-on-demand technology in automated life science laboratories. One significant feature of the droplets generated is the enormously high uniformity under constant conditions. However, there is also a relatively strong dependency on environmental conditions. Many different kinds of liquids are used in laboratory applications, some with unknown properties in advan...

Substrate roughness influences the wetting properties of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), but details on this dependency at the sub-nanometer level are still lacking. This study investigates the effect of surface roughness on interfacial properties of n-alkanethiolate SAMs, specifically wetting, and confirms the predicted limit to the observation of the odd-even effect in hydrophobicity. This ...

The Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment and Support Act (ADATSA) created a treatment program for indigent clients in Washington State. This research assesses the relationship between the level of treatment services received and subsequent employment outcomes. Clients who completed their plan of treatment earned more than those who did not, controlling for other factors. Those clients who recei...

1 Introduction Decades of psycholinguistic research have witnessed a sustained interest in whether syntactic island constraints are active during online processing the study of syntactic islands seeks to identify environments in which filler-gap dependencies are banned. But to these generalizations, there are, of course, exceptions. One of the more resilient island constraints is Ross's (1967) ...

At what characteristic length scale does classical continuum elasticity cease to accurately describe small deformation mechanical behavior? The two dominant physical mechanisms that lead to size dependency of elastic behavior at the nanoscale are surface energy effects and nonlocal interactions. The latter arises due to the discrete structure of matter and the fluctuations in the interatomic fo...

Obesity is a very common global health problem, and it is known to be linked to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Western medical treatments for obesity have many drawbacks, including effects on monoamine neurotransmitters and the potential for drug abuse and dependency. The safety of these medications requires improvement. Herbal medicine has been used for treatment of disease for m...

Gambling, Who Wins? Who loses?, edited by Gerda Reith, Ph.D, examines several wide-ranging yet important topics related to gambling. This multidisciplinary compilation of essays, some written by prominent scholars in their fields, examines such questions as: How can the alluring economic benefits of gambling be balanced against the potential harm caused to a significant minority? Is problem or ...

The Prague Dependency Treebank (Hajič et al., 2001) is approaching the publication of its second version in which the tectogrammatical annotation is being added to the morphological and analytical (surface-syntactic) one. In this article, the Prague Dependency Treebank as a whole is being described, including its brief history. In this volume, there are three more papers with a detailed account...