During a narrative discourse, accessibility of the referents is rarely fixed once and for all. Rather, each referent varies in accessibility as the discourse unfolds, depending on the presence and prominence of the other referents. This leads the speaker to use various referential expressions to refer to the main protagonists of the story at different moments in the narrative. This study relies...

Self-referential processing has been principally investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, understanding of the brain functioning is not possible without careful comparison of the evidence coming from different methodological domains. This paper aims to review electroencephalographic (EEG) studies of self-referential processing and to evaluate how they correspond...

Please cite this article in press as: Clay, Z., et Behaviour (2012), doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.201 Alarm calls and food-associated calls from a diverse range of species are said to be functionally referential, in that receivers can use these sounds to predict environmental events in the absence of other contextual cues. The evolutionary driver for referential alarm calls has been hypothesized to be...

A two-step optimization strategy for relational schemas that contains a class of inclusion dependencies is described. Both steps take into account additional information that indicates how to preserve each inclusion dependency in the presence of insertions an‘d deletioy. The first step eliminates inclusion dependencies which are redundant with respect to both the semantics of the data and the b...

Homo- and hetero-oligomerization of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) were examined in HEK-293 cells using two variants of bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET). BRET(2) (a variant of BRET) offers greatly improved separation of the emission spectra of the donor and acceptor moieties compared with traditional BRET. Previously recorded homo-oligomerization of the human delta-opioid r...

Анализируется некогда популярная, но лишенная эпистемологической основности платформа беспредпосылочности строя семантической процедуры. Показывается установление смыслозначимости в вариантах лингвистической, логической, философской семантики с опорой на предпосылочное базисное знание (система допущений о природе осваиваемой концептуально-символическими средствами реальности); последнее, отменя...

In this paper, we present a machine learning system for classifying subject ellipsis in Spanish as either referential or non-referential. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to automatically identify non-referential ellipsis in Spanish. An evaluation of our system against 6,827 finite verbs shows an accuracy of 87%.

2,6-Di(hetero)aryl and 2-(hetero)aryl substituted dithienothiazines are prepared from N-aryl dithienothiazines by a lithiation–lithium–zinc exchange–Negishi cross-coupling sequence with (hetero)aryl iodides in a one-pot fashion in good to excellent yields. These novel extended π-electron systems can be reversibly oxidized and fine-tuned in their electronic properties as supported by cyclo volta...

A mild, efficient, and low-temperature palladium-catalyzed cyanation of (hetero)aryl halides and triflates is reported. Previous palladium-catalyzed cyanations of (hetero)aryl halides have required higher temperatures to achieve good catalytic activity. This current reaction allows the cyanation of a general scope of (hetero)aryl halides and triflates at 2-5 mol % catalyst loadings with tempera...