BWB investigate whether exchange rate unpredictability is due to instabilities of the relationship between exchange rates and its fundamentals. In their exercise, BWB calibrate on actual data a model where the parameters linking exchange rates and fundamentals are allowed to change over time. BWB find that the pattern of out-of-sample (un)predictability assessed on data generated from a fixed c...

1 Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182-0681, [email protected]. Abstract  The purpose of this paper is to show the merits of using the order-of-magnitude analysis in engineering education to solve engineering and science problems, e.g., taken from the fields of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. By this approach, the engineering stude...

In this paper we address the problem of classifying objects (e.g. person or car) and actions (e.g. hugging or eating) [2]. The more successful methods are based on a uniform pyramidal representation (SPM) built on a visual word vocabulary [1]. In this paper, we augment the classification by adding more flexible spatial information. This will be formulated more generally as inferring additional ...

<1> Introduction It is generally assumed that in a language with the accusative case system a sentence with a finite predicate must have the subject NP marked with the nominative case. The abstract Case system developed by the Principles and Parameters approach (PPA) is based on this assumption, using the mechanism of the nominative and accusative Case checking for licensing the NPs with the st...

Abundance calculations for the p-nuclei involve an extended network of about 20,000 nuclear reactions of almost 2,000 nuclei. These rates are calculated with the statistical Hauser Feshbach Model (HF-Model). Elastic scattering experimental data provides a test for the global parameterizations of optical potentials that are used in these statistical model calculations. Recent experiments suggest...

This paper discusses the feature checking mechanism of interrogative sentences in Japanese and Korean. We first focus on a phenomenon of omitting question markers in informal speech in Japanese and attempt to provide an account for it within the framework of Principles and Parameters approach. We argue that question markers can be omitted only if interrogative features of the sentence can be pr...

We discuss some issues arising in the evaluation of confidence intervals in the presence of nuisance parameters (systematic uncertainties) by means of direct Neyman construction in multi–dimensional space. While this kind of procedure provides rigorous coverage, it may be affected by large overcoverage, and/or produce results with counterintuitive behavior with respect to the uncertainty on the...

Standard linguistic analysis of syntax uses the T-model. This model requires the ordering: D-structure > S-structure > LF, where D-structure is the sentences deep structure, S-structure is its surface structure, and LF is its logical form. Between each of these representations there is movement which alters the order of the constituent words; movement is achieved using the principles and parame...

The paper assesses the consequences of gradience for approaches to variation based on the Principles and Parameters model. In particular, the discussion focuses on recent crosslinguistic results obtained through magnitude estimation, a methodology particularly suited to the study of gradient acceptability/grammaticality. Results on superiority and relativised minimality effects in questions are...

pappi is a multilingual, Prolog-based parsing system designed for implementing theories in the Principles-and-Parameters framework. This report describes the Japanese version of the system. In particular, it reviews how the core system can be extended to handle a variety of Japanese phenomena, including anti-superiority, indirect passives and potentials, o/ni -causative and dative subject const...