Parsing is important in Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to understand the syntax and semantics of a natural language grammar. Parsing natural language text is challenging because of the problems like ambiguity and inefficiency. Also the interpretation of natural language text depends on context based techniques. A probabilistic component is essential to resolve ambiguity in both syn...

In order to understand natural languages, we have to be able to determine the relations between words, in other words we have to be able to ‘parse’ the input text. This is a difficult task, especially for Arabic, which has a number of properties that make it particularly difficult to handle. There are two approaches to parsing natural languages: grammar-driven and data-driven. Each of these app...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Gene flow from crops to their wild relatives has the potential to alter population growth rates and demography of hybrid populations, especially when a new crop has been genetically modified (GM). This study introduces a comprehensive approach to assess this potential for altered population fitness, and uses a combination of demographic data in two habitat types and mathemat...

Parsing is important in Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to understand the syntax and semantics of a natural language grammar. Parsing natural language text is challenging because of the problems like ambiguity and inefficiency. Also the interpretation of natural language text depends on context based techniques. A probabilistic component is essential to resolve ambiguity in both syn...

Hybrid systems are the result of merging the two most commonly used models of dynamical systems, namely continuous dynamical systems defined by differential equations, and discrete event systems defined by automata. One can view hybrid systems as constrained systems. The constraints are used to describe the possible flows, invariants and transitions on one hand, and to mark certain parts of the...

Postzygotic isolation may be important for maintaining species boundaries, particularly when premating barriers are incomplete. Little is known about the course of events leading from minor environmental mismatches affecting hybrid fitness to severe genetic incompatibilities causing sterility or inviability. We investigated whether reduced reproductive success of hybrid males was caused by subo...

EVOLUTION OF HYBRID INCOMPATIBILITIES IN GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS SEPTEMBER 2013 ALEXANDER Y. TULCHINSKY, B.S., VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, RICHMOND M.S., VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, RICHMOND Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST Directed by: Adam H. Porter Under the Dobzhansky-Muller model, postzygotic isolation results from incompatibility between interacting genes. Evidence...

In this paper we propose a hybrid system modeling framework aimed at analyzing diagnosability. In this framework, the hybrid system is seen as the composition of an underlying discrete event and an underlying continuous systems. Diagnosability of these two underlying systems are fully analyzed and new results are provided for the underlying continuous system (called the multimode system). Based...

In this paper we study Pfaffian hybrid systems which were first introduced in [9]. Pfaffian hybrid systems are a sub-class of o-minimal hybrid systems which capture rich continuous dynamics and yet can be studied using finite bisimulations. The existence of finite bisimulations for ominimal hybrid systems has been shown by several authors (see e.g. [2, 3, 11]). The next natural question to inve...

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