Absorption of arsenic (As) by plant root is an essential activity that bridges the soil As concentration and physiological responses which can be monitored soon after exposure to As. In the present study, physiological responses to short exposure to arsenite (AsIII) was compared in two indigenous rice cultivars one adapted to temperate and humid (TH) and the second one to warm and humid (WH) cl...

Abstract We report an experiment addressing the comprehension of LIS interrogatives in three adult populations with different times exposure to sign language: native signers, early and late signers. investigate whether delayed language affects there is advantage for subject dependencies over object dependencies, as systematically reported spoken languages. The answer first question positive: ev...

This paper attempts to investigate word order and verbal movement in Moroccan Arabic the Minimalist framework. We observe that unmarked MA is SVO while derived structure VSO. follows an English-like derivation where subject moves from [Spec, vP] TP] whilst verb v T. raises issue of when it comes VSO languages have as underlying order. To derive VSO, we propose T Focus based on pragmatic reasons...

Our previous findings regarding the biological activities of small peptides revealed that a di-peptide, Trp-His (WH), could play a role in the prevention of vascular lesions, including cell proliferation and atherosclerosis. Its vasoprotective effects could be associated with suppression of the vasocontraction signaling cascade, but the underlying mechanism(s) remains obscure. In this study, we...

Such WH-less WH-Questions (let us call them WLWQs) are very often used as questions in written tests or uttered by quizmasters in quizzes, though not often in daily conversations. 2 I assume that, despite their restriction in the range of registers, WLWQs are also constrained by the knowledge of human language. To my knowledge, there has been no previous research on WLWQs in the field. This pap...

In behavioral studies on sentence comprehension, much evidence indicates that shorter dependencies are preferred over longer dependencies, and that longer dependencies incur a greater processing cost. However, it remains uncertain which of the various steps involved in the processing of long-distance dependencies is responsible for the increased cost of longer dependencies. Previous sentence co...

Wh-exclamatives are usually considered degree constructions (e.g., Zanuttini & Portner 2003, Castroviejo 2008, Rett 2008). However, Japanese possesses what I call negative wh-expressives, which unrelated to degree. argue that unlike typical wh-exclamatives, wh-expressive sentences express a speaker’s attitude, and their compositional system is similar of an interrogative sentence except for...