This paper is an historical study of the formation of the Chinese resultative verb compounds (RVCs) that signal a resultant state of a non-agent with a V1V2 predicate. Metaphorization and metonymization, understood within the theoretical framework of Brinton & Traugott (2005), are proposed to have played a most important role in the formation of the RVC in Middle Chinese. Many scholars noted (W...

Those in our community who have known him were shocked on April 30, 2023 by the sudden loss of Professor Ahmed Kamal, a dear friend to them and distinguished volunteer IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). Dr. Kamal was Willard Leitha Richardson Electrical Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He served ComSoc diligently so many ways capacities for long time.

Helen Willard (1894-1980) and Clare Spackman (1909-1992) paved the way for modern and future occupational therapy. This article validates the need for historical research in occupational therapy and presents a historical study on how the personal and professional collaboration of Willard and Spackman influenced occupational therapy. Data were gathered from archival documents, private papers, an...

In his extreme male brain theory of autism, Baron-Cohen postulates that having a typically male brain was adaptive for ancestral men and having a typically female brain was adaptive for ancestral women. He also suggests that brain types are substantially heritable. These postulates, combined with the insight from the Trivers-Willard hypothesis regarding parental ability to vary offspring sex ra...

  In this paper, we establish exact solutions for the time-fractional Klein-Gordon equation, and the time-fractional Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV system. The He’s semi-inverse and the Kudryashov methods are used to construct exact solutions of these equations. We apply He’s semi-inverse method to establish a variational theory for the time-fractional Klein-Gordon equation, and the time-fractiona...

This study tests two evolutionary hypotheses on grandparental investments differentiated by the child's sex: the paternity uncertainty hypothesis and the Trivers-Willard hypothesis. Data are from two culturally different countries: the Dutch Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (n=2375) and the Chinese Anhui Survey (n=4026). In the Netherlands, grandparental investments are biased towards daughte...