This paper investigates special tone sandhi in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM), arguing that special tone sandhi in trisyllabic adjective reduplication in TSM is due to pragmatic factor rather than phonological factor, floating tone for example. It is proposed that a floating high tone appears between the first and second syllable of the trisyllabic adjective reduplication and it leads to the special...

Today the multimedia content delivery chain faces many challenges. There are increasing terminal diversity, network heterogeneity and pressure to satisfy the user preferences. Therefore, the need of customized contents comes in light to provide users the best possible experience. In this paper, we address the problem of multimedia customization. For the customized content, we suggest the team s...

A series of observations were made between 15 June and 9 July 1995 in an attempt to determine the system temperature, gain, and SEFD (System Equivalent Flux Density) for each antenna of the VLBA as a function of frequency for all bands. Each band was divided evenly into frequencies which extended beyond the nominal bandwidth. This was done to test antenna performance across the full band and es...

In this debate, Professor R. Polk Wagner, of Penn, and Professor Katherine J. Strandburg, of DePaul University College of Law, consider the merits (and demerits) of one doctrinal approach to the socalled “obviousness” requirement in patent law—the “teaching, suggestion, or motivation” (TSM) test. In Wagner’s view, “even with its imperfections, the law and policy of the TSM analysis, done right,...

Figure 1: Comparison between trapezoidal shadow maps (TSMs) and subdivided shadow maps. a) TSM with 1K×1K shadow map, b) TSM with 4K×4K shadow map, and c) 1K×1K subdivided shadow map. This configuration with a small angle between the light and view directions is difficult for prior methods. Even with the largest shadow map that can be allocated on current hardware, TSMs are not able to match th...