The kin term product calculations used by culture-bearers to compute kin relationships from kin terms without reference to genealogy are the basis for the structure of a kinship terminology and its underlying generative logic. The details of that logic account for differences in the structural forms for kinship terminologies. The structural form of the Polynesian kinship terminologies, like tha...

We propose a simultaneous equation system with GARCHX errors to model the contemporaneous relations among Asian and American stock markets. We thus evaluate the correlation matrix over rolling windows and introduce a correlation matrix distance which allows a simple graphical analysis of contagion. The empirical analysis on Asian and American stock markets shows some evidences of contagion.

According to Halliday (1967), there is a ban on simultaneous resultative and depictive modification in English. It is here observed that such a ban is not general, but instead restricted to certain examples of modification with abnormal theta relations, which are commonly found in the resultative construction. Otherwise, simultaneous resultative/depictive modification is possible. An account of...

The main focus of this paper is to present a case study of a SLAM solution for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) operating in real-world industrial environments. The studied solution, called Gold-fish SLAM, was implemented to provide localization estimates in dynamic industrial environments, where there are static landmarks that are only rarely perceived by the AGVs. The main idea of Gold-fish S...

Steele et al. (2005) describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, with an application to a study of partnership transitions and fertility among a cohort of British women. A multilevel multistate competing risks model is used to examine the relationship between prior fertility outcomes (the presence and characteristics of children and current pregnancy) and the di...

This paper describes the phrase-based SMT systems developed for our participation in the WMT13 Shared Translation Task. Translations for English↔German and English↔French were generated using a phrase-based translation system which is extended by additional models such as bilingual, fine-grained part-ofspeech (POS) and automatic cluster language models and discriminative word lexica (DWL). In a...

In Distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), multiple agents generate a global map of the environment while each performing its local SLAM operation. One of the main challenges is to identify overlapping maps, especially when agents do not know their relative starting positions. In this paper we are introducing a distributed framework which uses an appearance based method to ide...

Set comprehension is a mathematical notation for defining sets on the basis of a property of their members. Although set comprehension is widely used in mathematics and some programming languages, direct support for reasoning about it is still not readily available in state-of-the-art SMT solvers. This paper presents a technique for translating formulas which express constraints involving set c...

Results on the simultaneous scaling of nonnegative matrices involving one sided inequalities are presented. These are applied to scalings involving two sided inequalities. The proofs are graph theoretic. The setting is generalized to matrices with elements in lattice ordered Abelian groups with 0.