It has been claimed that patterns of regressive place assimilation in consonant clusters are attributable to the ‘inherent velocities’ primary oral articulators involved. The present study used articulatory data from Moroccan Arabic evaluate whether there were reliable differences peak velocity or measured stiffness based on articulator. Evidence for such was limited. We also evaluated degree o...

Chewed and expectorated quids, indigestible stringy fibers from the roasted inner pulp of agave or yucca root, have proven resilient over long periods of time in dry cave environments and correspondingly, although little studied, are common in archaeological archives. In the late 1960s, thousands of quids were recovered from Mule Spring Rockshelter (Nevada, USA) deposits and stored without cons...

The glycoprotein bovine lactadherin (formerly known as PAS-6/7) comprises two EGF-like domains and two C-like domains found in blood clotting factors V and VIII. Bovine lactadherin binds to alpha(v)beta(5) integrin in an RGD-dependent manner and also to phospholipids, especially phosphatidyl serine. To define and characterize these bindings the interactions between lactadherin and different mam...

let $d$ be an integral domain and $star$ a semistar operation stable and of finite type on it. we define the semistar dimension (inequality) formula and discover their relations with $star$-universally catenarian domains and $star$-stably strong s-domains. as an application, we give new characterizations of $star$-quasi-pr"{u}fer domains and um$t$ domains in terms of dimension ine...

We demonstrate that adult English speakers make use of perceptual principles in medial consonant cluster deletion. Cross-linguistically, consonant cluster simplification via deletion is more likely apply to the first consonant rather than the second consonant (if both consonants are of equal sonority). Adult native English speakers, were given a two-alternative forced-choice task in which eithe...

Let Sn denote the set of permutations of [n] = {1, 2, . . . , n}. For a positive integer k, define Sn,k to be the set of all permutations of [n] with exactly k disjoint cycles, i.e., Sn,k = {π ∈ Sn : π = c1c2 · · · ck}, where c1, c2, . . . , ck are disjoint cycles. The size of Sn,k is [ n k ] = (−1)n−ks(n, k), where s(n, k) is the Stirling number of the first kind. A family A ⊆ Sn,k is said to ...

Recall from Garsia’s paper that Ba is the group algebra Q(Sn) element Ba = 1 2 3 · · · a Wa,n = ∑ α∈Sa α Wa,n, where Wa,n is the word Wa,n = (a+ 1)(a+ 2) · · ·n. The motivation is that we have a deck of cards labelled 1, 2, . . . , n, and Ba represents all possible decks that may result from removing the cards 1, 2, . . . , a and then inserting them back into the deck (consisting of the cards a...

In the present study various durations of closure, preceding vowel etc. have been studied in meaningful Hindi two consonant cluster words with stop consonants ( such as /s ptah/ (week) and / bd (word)). The data included 80 most frequently occurring clusters of Hindi language. All these words were recorded by five male speakers and analysed using the Sensimetrics speech station software package...

Metrizamide is useful for evaluating both posterior fossa and the cervical spinal canal [1, 2]. Because the contrast material is diluted by spinal fluid enroute from the lumbar region to the cervical spinal canal, the C1-C2 puncture technique has been advocated as the most suitable approach for instillation of contrast material [3]. The procedure is safe and without great technical difficulties...