Houston Anglos of all ages show advanced degrees of /u/-fronting. However, a close acoustic analysis of the fronted /u/ of younger and older Anglo Houstonians reveals two distinct types: a more monophthongal type, consistent with prior descriptions of fronted /u/ in the rural South, and a more diphthongal type, consistent with descriptions of /u/-fronting in non-Southern speakers. The two types...

We describe a method of text summarization that produces indicative-informative abstracts / for technical papers. The abstracts are generated by a process of conceptual identification, topic extraction and re-generation. We have carried out an evaluation to assess indicative-ness and text acceptability relying on human judgment. The results so far indicate good performance in both tasks when co...

In a recent essay reviewing the historical works on women in politics and work, Elaine Tyler May, a perceptive social historian, argued that women’s history in general is flourishing. She based her judgment on a course correction, a change in direction, which the sub-discipline had reflected during the last few years. Once its task had been to “uncover women’s buried past and place the female e...

This paper studies some properties of F-biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. By considering the first variation formula of the F-bienergy functional, F-biharmonicity of conformal maps are investigated. Moreover, the second variation formula for F-biharmonic maps is obtained. As an application, instability and nonexistence theorems for F-biharmonic maps are given.