... to the surface of another withoutabsorption. An example is adsorption of water to the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-fused with ABSORPTION because the spellings of the two words ... determina-tion of current of large dimension, or ofthe size of the ampere.ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir-cuit in one hour when the rate of ... type of radar, the sync delay introduced between trans-mission ofthe pulse and start ofthe trace on the indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in the display.ALU Abbreviation of...
... energy, on account of the motion ofthe source and/or the detectingapparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-ent positions ofthe stars from month to month onaccount ofthe earth’s orbital ... modifyingonly the address part of an instruction.address field In a computer, the part ofthe in-struction that gives the address of a bit of data (ora word) in the memory.address generation The programmed ... electricalaction ofthe cell, as distinguished from the sup-porting material ofthe plates themselves. 2. A ra-dioactive substance. 3. The phosphor coating of acathode-ray tube screen. 4. The material...
... identifying the pos-itive or negative semantic orientation of for-eign words. Identifying the semantic orienta-tion ofwords has numerous applications in the areas of text classification, analysis of ... bootstrap from words with known polarity to words with unknown polar-ity. They assign any given word the label of its syn-onyms or the opposite label of its antonyms if any of them are known.Kanayama ... polarity,hitsw,posis the number of hits returned by a com-mercial search engine when the search query is the given word and the disjunction of all positive seed words. hitsposis the number of hits when...
... from either the rate of appearance of the product ofthe reaction or the rate of disappearance ofthe sub-strate. The centrifugation may be performed on impure enzymepreparations and at the very ... polymer ofthe protein actin.Actin filaments form the thin filaments of muscle and also the mi-crofilaments ofthe cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. Hence they are amajor component ofthe contractile ... between the amide (peptide) links, the carbonyl group of any given residue being hydrogen- bonded to the imino group ofthe third residue behind it in the chain. This is the case for all of the...
... oversees the day-to-day implementation ofthe project and manages the Osborne Association and Friends of Island Academy, the two non-profit service providers that deliver the intervention; • The ... Bringing Social Impact Bonds to New York City The City ofNew York Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor What are the Benefits? • Investing in outcomes to improve the lives of those in need • Government ... non-profit. • The Goldman Sachs loan to MDRC will ensure successful implementation ofthe ABLE program at Rikers. • Bloomberg Philanthropies will make a grant to MDRC in the amount of $7.2...
... literally the number of patient-days of therapy being consumed, but rather the number of patient-days of therapy which would be consumed if all of the sales were for treatment of active ... marketing behavior ofthe manufacturers, the sales and market shares they attained, and the data sources underlying these statistics. 7.3 Overview of the Data Most ofthe data used in this ... measured by the cumulative stock of marketing efforts since product launch, rather than simply by the flow of cur- 14. Specifically, the Fisher-Ideal price index is the geometric mean of the Laspeyres...
... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal ofthe project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionaryof English (a forthcoming new edition ofthe 1998 New OxfordDictionary of English) so that ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other wayround. There has been no attempt to alter the origi-nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced ... Press,Cambridge, Mass.Judy Pearsall. 1998. The NewOxfordDictionary of English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.126matic analysis and grading of defmitions is provinghighly productive...
... andperception is at the core ofthe present formulation ofthe embodiment hypothesis. The analogy between the form ofthe argument for the embodiment hypothesis and the form ofthe foregoing argument ... soothe the infant the parent could say, ‘‘There, there,there ,’’ giving more stress and amplitude on the first part ofthe word andtrailing off towards the end ofthe word. Alternatively, the ... in the ‘‘meta-phorical definition’’ of more complex concepts. In short, they argued that thesethree natural kinds of experience—experience ofthe body, ofthe physical envi-ronment, and of the...
... indicated by the use of bold lines:they ‘‘profile’’ aspects ofthe object of conceptualization, but none at the level of the subjects of conceptualization or ofthe relation between the two levels. ... details.In each of these cases, the landmark with respect to which the trajector is located ispart ofthe ground ofthe utterance. The position ofthe ballroom in (3) is calcu-lated from the common ... relevant for the speech participants (i.e., part ofthe common ground), then the location of the address is calculated from the position of sentence (4) in this document. So, in each of these cases,...
... which thus constitutes the matrix domain that is the antecedent of the anaphoric pronoun she. The theory of Ruiz de Mendoza and his coauthors has the advantage of accounting for the difference between ... University Press.metonymy 259in the meaning ofthe NP itself.’’ In other words, the variety of possible contextualmeanings ofthe beer could be due to vagueness, rather than to metonymic shiftsthat ... (unmarked)interpretation is that John, the referent ofthe main clause object, is supposed toleave—that is, the object ofthe main clause ‘‘controls’’ the reference ofthe un-derstood subject in the infinitive clause;...