Lexical Attraction Models (LAMs) were first introduced by Deniz Yuret in (Yuret 1998) to exemplify how an algorithm can learn word dependencies from raw text. His general thesis is that lexical attraction is the likelihood of a syntactic relation. However, the lexical attraction acquisition algorithm from (Yuret 1998) does not take into account the morpho-syntactical information provided by a p...

Is a person more receptive to love and affection when his self-esteem, is high or when it is low? Learning theorists, clinicians, and dissonance theorists provide conflicting answers. This paper proposes and tests an explanation for these contradictory research findings. This explanation is based on the assumption that low-self-esteem individuals are unusually receptive to affection when they r...

Let F be an automorphism of C which has an attracting fixed point. It is well known that the basin of attraction is biholomorphically equivalent to C. We will show that the basin of attraction of a sequence of automorphisms f1, f2, . . . is also biholomorphic to C if every fn is a small perturbation of the original map F .

In this paper we investigate how case features are represented and processed during language comprehension. To this end, we explored the phenomena of case attraction in German in a series of four experiments using a speeded grammaticality judgment procedure. Case attraction leads to errors that are akin to subject-verb agreement errors intensively studied in English and other languages (e.g. Bo...

Antimicrobial polypeptides are widely distributed effec-tors of host defense in animals and plants. They include enzymes that digest vital microbial structures (e.g., lysozyme, neutrophil elastase, phospholipase A2), substances that bind and sequester iron or other essential nutrients (e.g., lacto-ferrin), and polypeptides that insert into and disrupt microbial membranes (e.g., bactericidal per...

© Schattauer 2012 Thrombosis and Haemostasis 108.4/2012 Recent findings indicate that naturally occurring polyphosphates, like nucleic acids and inorganic compounds, share the ability to trigger blood coagulation (1). The release of DNA or RNA by tissue damage can thus represent a first line of haemostatic defence against vascular injury. This view is further corroborated by the observation tha...

This article details the reasons behind adolescents' attraction to cults. It is recommended that parents, teachers, and counselors familiarize themselves with the warning signs. Suggestions are offered on how to make adolescents less vulnerable to cult overtures. Adolescence is the transitional period between the dependence of childhood and the assumption of the rights and responsibilities of a...

Non-linguistic social signals (e.g., `tone of voice’) are often as important as linguistic or affective content in predicting behavioral outcomes [1, 12]. This paper describes four automated measures of audio social signaling within the experimental context of speed dating. We find that this approach allows us to make surprisingly accurate predictions about the outcomes of social situations.

We consider a skew product with the interval [0,a] as a fiber space and maps in fibers that are concave and fix 0. If the map in the base is an irrational rotation of a circle, then it has been known that under some additional conditions there exists a Strange Nonchaotic Attractor (SNA) for the system. The proofs involved Lyapunov exponents and Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem. We show that the existen...

Biological membranes are fascinating two-dimensional microenvironments that exhibit unique solvent behaviours due to their varying lipid composition. Although many important bioenergetic and signalling events involve the transient or permanent assembly of membrane protein complexes, the characterization of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties behind this assembly is just beginning. In parti...