Y. X. Wang , X. L. Zhu, M. Deng, Y. W. Siu, C. S. Leung, Q. Chan, T. M. Chan, and W. S. Poon Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Jockey Club Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control...

In this squib, I present an alternative view of the Gen and Eval mechanisms that lie at the heart of Optimality Theory (“OT”) (see Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993). As originally conceived, Gen is a pattern generator which creates an infinite set of possible phonological realizations of a lexical input string (“candidates”). Eval then evaluates the entire (infinite) set to d...

The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University (LISD) convened a special seminar, “Grand Strategy and Self-Determination,” at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on November 19-20, 2014. This Liechtenstein Colloquium (LCM) commemorated the twenty-year anniversary of the Liechtenstein Initiative on the study of self-determin...

BACKGROUND Rotavirus vaccine is recommended for all infants in Canada. To evaluate the logistics of implementing a universal rotavirus vaccination program, we compared the effectiveness of program implementation in jurisdictions with either a physician-administered or public health nurse-administered program. METHODS All infants born between October 1, 2010 and September 30, 2012 in Prince Ed...

ing away from any ordering due to multiple violation of single constraints, (16) shows the harmonic ordering of candidates induced by (15) (see Prince & Smolensky 1993, 68-71 for the notation). Curly braces enclose the list of marks of each candidate: the candidate violating only C1 has the mark {*C1}, the candidate violating C1 and C2 is marked {*C1, *C2}, and the candidate violating no constr...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada is experimenting with a commercial fishery on the European green crab (Carcinus maenas), an invasive species in North America, to help reduce the negative impact this animal has on ecosystems and native shellfish populations. We determined the break-even price that fishers would require for green crabs under different fishing scenarios (i.e. diff...