This paper describes a computational model of human sentence processing based on the principles and parameters paradigm of current linguistic theory. The syntactic processing model posits four modules, recovering phrase structure, long-distance dependencies, coreference, and thematic structure. These four modules are implemented as recta-interpreters over their relevant components of the gramma...

Here we respond to some comments by Alday concerning headedness in linguistic theory and the validity of the assumptions of a mathematical model for word order. For brevity, we focus only on two assumptions: the unit of measurement of dependency length and the monotonicity of the cost of a dependency as a function of its length. We also revise the implicit psychological bias in Alday’s comments...

This study includes a global sensitivity analysis of the water productivity model AquaCrop. The study rationale consisted in a comprehensive evaluation of the model and the formulation of guidelines for model simplification and efficient calibration. The global analysis comprehended a Morris screening followed by a variance-based Extended Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (EFAST) under diverse...

The billiard motion inside an ellipsoid Q ⊂ R is completely integrable. Its phase space is a symplectic manifold of dimension 2n, which is mostly foliated with Liouville tori of dimension n. The motion on each Liouville torus becomes just a parallel translation with some frequency ω that varies with the torus. Besides, any billiard trajectory inside Q is tangent to n caustics Qλ1 , . . . , Qλn ...

The goal of our research is to find ways of supporting and encouraging musical behavior by non-musicians in shared public performance environments. Previous studies indicated simultaneous music listening and performance is difficult for non-musicians, and that visual support for the task might be helpful. This paper presents results from a preliminary user study conducted to evaluate the effect...

A systematic procedure is presented for synthesis of generalized Chebyshev lossy bandstop filters with non-paraconjugate transmission zeros. From a lossy scattering parameters with the prescribed reflection zeros, the transformation formulas from the scattering matrix to the admittance matrix are obtained by reconstructing the non-paraconjugate transmission zeros as paraconjugate ones. The cano...

The emergence of chaos is an important issue in the study of coupled dynamical networks. In this paper, we suppose that all nodes are non-chaotic before they are coupled together, however, the chaotic state will emerge without changing each node s parameter if these nodes are connected through a certain type of network. First we give a sufficient condition for the emergence of chaotic state, th...

Following the development of the selectionist theory of the immune system, there was an attempt to characterise many biological mechanisms as being ‘selectionist’ as juxtaposed with ‘instructionist’. However, this broad definition would group Darwinian evolution, the immune system, embryonic development, and Chomsky’s principlesand-parameters (P&P) language-acquisition mechanism together under ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Prophylactic injections of factor VIII reduce the incidence of bleeds and slow the development of joint damage in people with hemophilia. The aim of this study was to identify optimal person-specific prophylaxis regimens for children with hemophilia A. METHODS Analytic and numerical methods were used to identify prophylaxis regimens which maximize the time for which plasma f...

In this paper a solution of combined field integral equation (CFIE) for electromagnetic scattering by an arbitrary shaped dielectric object is studied. We derive a novel CFIE formulation in which the electric and magnetic field integral equations (EFIE and MFIE) are combined in the usual manner outside the object. Inside the object CFIE is composed by changing the roles of EFIE and MFIE. In add...