Previous physiological studies have revealed changes in firing rates and synchronization of pallidal neurons in the 1-methyl4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) primate model of Parkinson’s disease. Several primate and human studies have demonstrated that dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) reverses the changes in the pallidal firing rates; however, the effects of DRT on pallidal synchroni...

First-order logic (FOL) is undecidable — that is, no algorithm exists that can decide whether a formula of FOL is valid or not. However, there are various fragments of FOL that are known to be decidable. FO, the two-variable fragment of FOL, is one of such languages [1, 2]. FO is a first-order language where formulas have maximally two variables, no function symbols, but possibly do have equali...

1 Previous analyses 1.1 Huang and Liu on LDR ziji Long-distance ziji is of interest to linguists for its peculiar behavior: it does not always obey Binding Condition A as stated in the Binding Theory. Some authors, for example, Huang and Liu (2001) argue that there are two uses of the bare reflexive ziji: one as a syntactic anaphor subject to Binding Condition A and the other as a pragmatic log...

In this note, we reconstruct some results of the DRT analysis of presupposition projection within the theory of local contexts of Schlenker 2009. The latter offered a way to annotate every sentence with variables that denote the various local context sets that play a crucial role in Heim’s satisfaction theory (Heim 1983). In standard satisfaction theories, a presupposition must be entailed by i...

Current physiological studies emphasize the role of neuronal oscillations and synchronization in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease; however, little is known about their specific roles in the neuronal substrate of dopamine replacement therapy (DRT). We investigated oscillatory activity and correlations throughout the different states of levodopa-naive parkinsonism as well as "Off-On" an...

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is commonly used for the characterization of electrochemical systems, such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In recent years, distribution relaxation times (DRT) analysis has attracted increasing interest a tool investigating loss mechanisms in due to its ability resolve features that overlap complex planes. Among methods deconvolution function time...

BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by a degeneration of nigrostriatal dopaminergic cells, resulting in dopamine depletion. This depletion is counteracted through dopamine replacement therapy (DRT). Dopamine has been suggested to affect novelty processing and memory, which suggests that these processes are also implicated in PD and that DRT could affect them. OBJECTIVE To inv...

This paper deals with anaphoric properties of both pronominal and nonpronominal Noun Phrases within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). A generalized notion of anaphora is advocated, in which the notion of anaphora is extended to cover relations between anaphor and antecedent other than referential identity. This paper tries to make insights gained in DRT, as well as in othe...

This paper investigates semantic and pragmatic presupposition in Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and enhances the pragmatic perspective of presupposition in DRT. In doing so, it draws attention to the need to account for agent presupposition (i.e. both speaker and hearer presupposition) when dealing with pragmatic presupposition. Furthermore, this paper links this pragmatic conception of ...