Objectives: To investigate the effect of comb-like slot dimensions on dualband microstrip antenna performance parameters. Methods: Alternate comblike slots are placed patch and varied to observe The design is simulated in Mentor Graphics software package. results verified with Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) analysis MATLAB. measured Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) good agreement results. Fi...

Three eye-tracking experiments investigated the role of pitch accents during online discourse comprehension. Participants faced a grid with ornaments, and followed pre-recorded instructions such as "Next, hang the blue ball" to decorate holiday trees. Experiment 1 demonstrated a processing advantage for felicitous as compared to infelicitous uses of L+H* on the adjective noun pair (e.g. blue ba...

Arguably the biggest challenge in analyzing English tense is to account for the double access interpretation, which arises when a present tensed verb is embedded under a past attitude—e.g. John said that Mary is pregnant. Presentunder-past does not always result in a felicitous utterance, however—cf. #John believed that Mary is pregnant. While such oddity has been noted, the contrast has never ...

Indefinites face competition at two levels: Presupposition and content. The antipresupposition hypothesis predicts that they signal the opposite of familiarity, or uniqueness, namely, novelty, or non-uniqueness. At the level of descriptive content, they are pressured from two sides: definites expressing identity and another phrases expressing difference, and Gricean reasoning predicts that inde...

This paper presents a way to compute relative social status of the individuals involved in Korean dialogue. Every Korean sentence indicates whether honorification occurs in it. The occurrence of honorification in a sentence is constrained by relative social status of the individuals involved in the sentence. By using the intbrmation about social status and the information about sentence-externa...

Louis D. Brandeis is the presiding eminence in the story of the encounter of Jewish with the American legal order. In the centuries since Brandeis started practicing law, Jews have flourished exceedingly in both the legal professional mainstream (practitioners, judiciaries, academics) and the public interest sector. Can this extravagant participation in both hemispheres of the world of American...

This paper aims to show how general pragmatic pressures, interacting with the context of utterance, can produce specific conversational implicatures — as well as the lack thereof in nonsupporting environments. Inspired by the work of Merin (1997), Blutner (1998), van Rooy (2003a), Benz et al. (2005), and others, I use probabilities to represent speakers’ belief states and the content of their u...

3D shape modeling is a crucial component of rapid prototyping systems that customize shapes of implants and prosthetic devices to a patient’s anatomy. In this paper, we present a solution to the problem of customized 3D shape modeling using a statistical shape analysis framework. We design a novel method to learn the relationship between two classes of shapes, which are related by certain opera...

A methodology is proposed for taking queries and requests expressed in natural language as input and answering them in charts through organizing that interaction into felicitous dialogue. Charts and graphics, as well as languages, are important modes of communication. This is especially true of those which are used frequently when people analyze huge amount of data interactively, in order to fi...

It is perhaps difficult to recall how new the treatment of the first 19921993 two-volume edition [2] was in using the modern functional analytically oriented PDE theory of evolution equations (as well as a corresponding semigroup treatment of delay equations) to present a treatment of topics that had only recently obtained a satisfactory formulation. The present work (hereafter, BDDM2) has now ...