Chinese typists are readily trained to end the input sequence that identifies the first character of a pair with a special delimiter for pairs rather than the usual delimiter. The pairs delimiter alerts the system to look up the pairing potential of the first character. Then it matches the second character of the pair against that potential. The result is automatic contextual disambiguation per...

Variable-length splittable codes are derived from encoding sequences of ordered integer pairs, where one of the pair’s components is upper bounded by some constant, and the other one is any positive integer. Each pair is encoded by the concatenation of two fixed independent prefix encoding functions applied to the corresponding components of a pair. The codeword of such a sequence of pairs cons...

The generalized stream X-machines (stream X-machines with basic functions replaced by relations and having as output, strings of symbols rather than single symbols) with output delimiter (any output string has at the right end side a special delimiter) are introduced. It is proved that testing methods similar to those already developed for ordinary determi-nistic stream X-machines may be applie...

Results: There were no significant age differences associated with sex or race. Participants below the 125% poverty delimiter were slightly younger than those above the delimiter. Age, race, and sex, but not poverty status, were associated with the likelihood of a physical examination. Older participants, women, and Whites were more likely to complete their examinations. Among those who complet...

A new recursive universal code of the positive integers is proposed, in which any given sequence can be used as a delimiter of codeword while bit “0” is used as a delimiter in known universal codes, e.g., Levenshtein code, Elias code, Even–Rodeh code, Stout code, Bentley–Yao code, etc. The codeword length of the proposed code is shorter than log in almost all of sufficiently large positive inte...

The Text Encoding Initiative’s typed segment-boundary delimiter method is only one of several proposed mechanisms for handling overlap in TEI documents. HORSE (aka CLIX) defines a method by which an XML element is used normally when possible and as an improved version of the typed segment-boundary delimiter method when an overlap problem is encountered. A significant portion of the rules necess...

OBJECTIVE Examine the influences of race, socioeconomic status, sex, and age on barriers to participation in a study of cross-sectional differences and longitudinal changes in health-related outcomes. METHODS We designed a multidisciplinary, community-based, prospective longitudinal epidemiologic study among socioeconomically diverse African Americans and Whites. We recruited 3722 participant...

Tenny (1987, 1994: 79) proposes the Single Delimiting Constraint that the event described by a verb can only be delimited once (cf. Goldberg 1991, 1995). The constraint applies the effects of delimitedness as an aspectual property to the mapping of semantics and syntax, and explains why sentences with two delimiters (e.g., *Martha wiped the table dry1 clean2 Tenny 1994: 80) are unacceptable. Th...

Racetrack memory is a non-volatile memory engineered to provide both high density and low latency, that is subject to synchronization or shift errors. This paper describes a fast coding solution, in which “delimiter bits” assist in identifying the type of shift error, and easily implementable graph-based codes are used to correct the error, once identified. A code that is able to detect and cor...