scholarly journals Triggering verbal presuppositions

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Abrusan
Keyword(s):  
Event Time ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Rough Approximation ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Event Times

This paper offers a predictive mechanism to derive the presuppositions of verbs. The starting point is the intuition, dating back at least to Stalnaker (1974), that the information conveyed by a sentence that is in some sense independent from its main point is presupposed. The contribution of this paper is to spell out a mechanism for deciding what will become the main point of the sentence and how to calculate independence. It is proposed that this can be calculated by making reference to event times. As a very rough approximation, the main point of an utterance is what (in a sense to be defined) has to be about the event time of the matrix predicate and the information that the sentence conveys but is not (or does not have to be) about the event time of the matrix predicate is presupposed. The notion of aboutness used to calculate independence is based on Demolombe and Farinas del Cerro (2000).

scholarly journals Triggering verbal presuppositions

2015 ◽  
pp. 684
Author(s):  
Marta Abrusan
Keyword(s):  
Event Time ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Rough Approximation ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Event Times

This paper offers a predictive mechanism to derive the presuppositions of verbs. The starting point is the intuition, dating back at least to Stalnaker (1974), that the information conveyed by a sentence that is in some sense independent from its main point is presupposed. The contribution of this paper is to spell out a mechanism for deciding what will become the main point of the sentence and how to calculate independence. It is proposed that this can be calculated by making reference to event times. As a very rough approximation, the main point of an utterance is what (in a sense to be defined) has to be about the event time of the matrix predicate and the information that the sentence conveys but is not (or does not have to be) about the event time of the matrix predicate is presupposed. The notion of aboutness used to calculate independence is based on Demolombe and Farinas del Cerro (2000).

Embracing Uncertainty: Modeling Uncertainty in EPMA—Part II

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Nicholas W.M. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Beam Energy ◽  
Uncertainty Modeling ◽  
Matrix Correction ◽  
Correction Model ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Uncertainty Calculation ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Measurement Design ◽  
New Framework

AbstractThis, the second in a series of articles present a new framework for considering the computation of uncertainty in electron excited X-ray microanalysis measurements, will discuss matrix correction. The framework presented in the first article will be applied to the matrix correction model called “Pouchou and Pichoir's Simplified Model” or simply “XPP.” This uncertainty calculation will consider the influence of beam energy, take-off angle, mass absorption coefficient, surface roughness, and other parameters. Since uncertainty calculations and measurement optimization are so intimately related, it also provides a starting point for optimizing accuracy through choice of measurement design.

Minimum Inter-Event Times for Rainfall in the Eastern Monsoon Region of China

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Wenting Wang ◽  
Wenting Wang ◽  
Shuiqing Yin ◽  
Yun Xie ◽  
Mark A. Nearing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Rainfall ◽  
Precipitation Data ◽  
Monsoon Region ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Event Time ◽  
Hourly Data ◽  
Average Precipitation ◽  
Average Rainfall ◽  
Exponential Method ◽  
Event Times

Abstract.Minimum inter-event time (MIT) is an index used to delineate independent storms from sub-daily rainfall records. An individual storm is defined as a period of rainfall with preceding and succeeding dry periods less than MIT. The exponential method was used to determine an appropriate MITexp for the eastern monsoon region of China based on observed 1-min resolution rainfall data from 18 stations. Results showed that dry periods between storms greater than MITexp followed an exponential distribution. MITexp values varied from 7.6 h to 16.6 h using 1-min precipitation data, which were statistically not different from values using hourly data at p = 0.05. At least ten years of records were necessary to obtain a stable MIT. Values of storm properties are sensitive to the change in MIT values, especially when MIT values are small. Average precipitation depths across all stations were 45% greater, durations were 84% longer, maximum 30-min intensities were 27% greater, and average rainfall intensities were 20% less when using an MIT of 10 h, the average value of MITexp over 18 stations, compared to 2 h. This indicates that more attention should be paid to the use of the MIT index as it relates to storm properties. Keywords: China, Exponential method, Minimum inter-event time, Storm, Storm property.

scholarly journals Influence of External Environmental Factors on Range Estimation of Autonomous Hybrid Vehicles

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 472-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máté Zöldy ◽  
Imre Zsombók
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Hybrid Vehicles ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Electric Cars ◽  
Electric Driving ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Matrix

AbstractDuring our research, we focus on a less researched area in the development of autonomous vehicles. Automotive industry is turning more and more from conventional, internal combustion engine equipped vehicles to the electric cars. Today, electric driving is mostly limited to urban traffic, this is the area where range and refueling limits can be a real alternative. However, it is important to think of those who intend to use vehicle in longer distances, and hybrid technology can provide them a modern, environmentally conscious way of transport.In this article, we describe the method of creating the fuel consumption influencing factors matrix, which is the starting point of our research. We studied relevant researches and based on refueling studies we created the matrix. Based on results of real tests, we determined the factor mix that are the basis of our fuel consumption prediction model. These results will be inputs of planning routes of autonomous vehicles with optimized refueling and fuel consumption.

ALGORITHMIC SUPPORT FOR SELECTING OPTIMAL TRAFFIC ROUTE OF MOTOR CONVOY OF RAPID REACTION BORDER COMMAND POST

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
O. Borovyk ◽  
V. Kupelskiy
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Optimal Route ◽  
The Road ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Branching Points ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Status ◽  
Speed Function

The rapid response border commandant's office is a structural unit of the border detachment, designed to protect and strengthen the protection of a certain section of the state border, and must quickly redeploy its forces and assets. The success of the tasks assigned to the unit depends largely on the timeliness of arrival at the destination. Operational transportation of a significant amount of weapons, personnel and dissimilar cargoes on land is carried out using equipment. At the preparatory stage of the organization of transportation, the problem of forming the optimal composition of the convoy of equipment is solved. The existing road network provides a sufficiently large number of traffic routes between the starting and ending points. Moreover, this takes place even for insignificant distances between points of departure and destination. The specified conditions for multivariance in the selection. In addition, the choice of the route of movement depends on many auxiliary conditions: driver training, technical characteristics and reliability of vehicles, traffic safety, road and environmental conditions, distance and timing of transportation, and the like. Poor accounting of these factors in the aggregate may lead to the choice of an irrational route of movement, will not ensure the timely arrival of the unit at the destination, and may lead to the failure to fulfill certain tasks. Therefore, the task of choosing the optimal route of movement of the column of equipment is relevant. At the substantive level, the task looks like the justification of the mathematical model for choosing the optimal route for the column of equipment, if the criterion of optimality is minimizing the time it takes to move from the starting point to the destination. The authors formed a mathematical model of the given problem, proposed an algorithm for its solution for three cases: discrete-stochastic, discretely-determined and continuously-indefinite, and the corresponding software was developed. The choice of routes is carried out for three options, taking into account the fact that the change in the weights of the ribs can be carried out: at times when the column is at a certain vertex of the graph, and the update of the matrix of weights is carried out precisely at these moments. This is the case when a decision on the further route of movement is formed at the road branching points, taking into account the situation, the status of individual sections changes dynamically and data for which appears periodically; at times when the column is at a certain vertex of the graph, and for these moments, the matrix of weights that will occur when the column hits the vertex are known in advance. This is the case when a decision on the route of movement can be formed at the beginning of the movement, taking into account the known situation on the state of the roads, dynamically change, but data on which can be taken into account in advance; randomly depending on the speed of the column at a fixed point in time for which the column speed function is known.

Renormalization of the transformation operators of quantum electrodynamics

1954 ◽  
Vol 227 (1168) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Matrix Theory ◽  
Transformation Operator ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Finite Time Interval ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Long Time

The transformation operator of electrodynamics for a finite time interval with uncertain boundaries is represented by a continuous switching on and off of the charge. It is shown that its divergencies are the same as those appearing in the S matrix theory, and a covariant procedure is given for isolating their infinite parts. Provided Gupta’s renormalized Lagrangian is used as a starting point all the infinities may be removed. The coefficients of the counter terms are power series in the time-dependent charge with coefficients that are independent of the time interval being considered. The practice of approximating the matrix elements of the transformation operators for long time intervals by matrix elements of the S matrix is discussed and justified. In an appendix the extension of these results to the renormalizable meson theories is discussed.

scholarly journals Formation of ethnosocial identity in the matrix of media discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (43) ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Irina S. Karabulatova ◽  
Margarita D. Lagutkina ◽  
Natalia V. Borodina ◽  
Maria A. Streltsova ◽  
Aleksei O. Bakhus
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Media ◽  
Descriptive Method

The authors analyze the linguo-information model of the country in the modern media discourse of Russia and China. Screening of Russian and Chinese sources uses the method of contextual analysis with an emphasis on the implicit content of the media image of the country, the descriptive method, the method of cultural interpretation, content analysis. Information wars use the image of a country as a starting point in the matrix of media discourse to emphasize the perception of information. The authors propose the concept of a media matrix for understanding the cognitive side of media images of geopolitical topoobjects. The authors substantiate the introduction of the terms linguoinforneme and linguoinformational step into scientific circulation from the point of view of the structure of the matrix of geopolitonyms of the media. The media image of the country in the media discourse is diverse, being realized in evaluative linguistic systems. The authors show what the mythologized / realistic perception of the image of the country is based on, how it is conditioned by the tasks of geopolitics, how it correlates with the strategies of international cooperation and how it affects intercultural communication.

Enveloping Algebras of Semi-Simple Lie Algebras

1950 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Lie Algebras ◽  
Associative Algebra ◽  
Finite Basis ◽  
Multiplication Table ◽  
Polynomial Equations ◽  
Systems Of Equations ◽  
Enveloping Algebras ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Matrix

In a recent paper we studied systems of equations of the form(1) (2) where as usual [a,b] = ab — ba and ϕ(λ) is a polynomial. Equations of this type have arisen in quantum mechanics. In our paper we gave a method of determining the matrix solutions of such equations. The starting point of our discussion was the observation that if the elements xi satisfy (1) then the elements xi, [xj,xk] satisfy the multiplication table of a certain basis of the Lie algebra of skew symmetric (n + 1) ⨯ (n + 1) matrices. We proved that if (2) is imposed as an added condition, then the algebra generated by the has a finite basis, and we obtained the structure of the most general associative algebra that is generated in this way.

scholarly journals Privatization of Biofilm Matrix in Structurally Heterogeneous Biofilms

mSystems ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon B. Otto ◽  
Marivic Martin ◽  
Daniel Schäfer ◽  
Raimo Hartmann ◽  
Knut Drescher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Shear Stress ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Matrix Gene ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Matrix Components ◽  
Biofilm Development ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT The self-produced biofilm provides beneficial protection for the enclosed cells, but the costly production of matrix components makes producer cells susceptible to cheating by nonproducing individuals. Despite detrimental effects of nonproducers, biofilms can be heterogeneous, with isogenic nonproducers being a natural consequence of phenotypic differentiation processes. For instance, in Bacillus subtilis biofilm cells differ in production of the two major matrix components, the amyloid fiber protein TasA and exopolysaccharides (EPS), demonstrating different expression levels of corresponding matrix genes. This raises questions regarding matrix gene expression dynamics during biofilm development and the impact of phenotypic nonproducers on biofilm robustness. Here, we show that biofilms are structurally heterogeneous and can be separated into strongly and weakly associated clusters. We reveal that spatiotemporal changes in structural heterogeneity correlate with matrix gene expression, with TasA playing a key role in biofilm integrity and timing of development. We show that the matrix remains partially privatized by the producer subpopulation, where cells tightly stick together even when exposed to shear stress. Our results support previous findings on the existence of “weak points” in seemingly robust biofilms as well as on the key role of linkage proteins in biofilm formation. Furthermore, we provide a starting point for investigating the privatization of common goods within isogenic populations. IMPORTANCE Biofilms are communities of bacteria protected by a self-produced extracellular matrix. The detrimental effects of nonproducing individuals on biofilm development raise questions about the dynamics between community members, especially when isogenic nonproducers exist within wild-type populations. We asked ourselves whether phenotypic nonproducers impact biofilm robustness, and where and when this heterogeneity of matrix gene expression occurs. Based on our results, we propose that the matrix remains partly privatized by the producing subpopulation, since producing cells stick together when exposed to shear stress. The important role of linkage proteins in robustness and development of the structurally heterogeneous biofilm provides an entry into studying the privatization of common goods within isogenic populations.

The Revised Model Tax Curriculum

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Dennis-Escoffier ◽  
Beth B. Kern ◽  
Shelley C. Rhoades-Catanach
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Certified Public Accountants ◽  
American Institute ◽  
Accounting Faculty ◽  
Accounting Curriculum ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Student Competencies

ABSTRACT: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) first developed the Model Tax Curriculum (MTC) in 1996 and modified it in 1999. Subsequent changes in the accounting profession and education caused a reexamination of the MTC resulting in a complete revision in 2007. The revised MTC is learning outcome-based and views the accounting curriculum in its entirety. The revised MTC includes a detailed matrix relating its proposed learning outcomes to the AICPA core competencies and tax technical topics commonly included in tax curricula. The matrix offers accounting faculty one example of an approach to be used in achieving the MTC learning outcomes. This approach can serve as a useful starting point to faculty in formulating and documenting their own approaches to developing student competencies that achieve the revised MTC learning objectives. This paper details the development of the MTC and provides an overview of the revised MTC. It also offers pedagogical suggestions helpful for implementing the MTC.

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