Lexicalization and Grammar Development

In this paper we present a fully lexicalized grammar formalism as a particularly attractive framework for the specification of natural language grammars. We discuss in detail Feature-based, Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars (FB-LTAGs), a representative of the class of lexicalized grammars. We illustrate the advantages of lexicalized grammars in various contexts of natural language processing, ranging from wide-coverage grammar development to parsing and machine translation. We also present a method for compact and efficient representation of lexicalized trees.Comment: ps file. English w/ German abstract. 10 page

Waiting Room words

Around the world we are coming to realise what Indigenous and First Nations peoples have long known: the creative arts are crucially important for our health and wellbeing. Today we have extensive evidence for how, in hospitals, the arts can help patients cope with serious illness, use less pain medication, stay fewer days in hospital, and rehabilitate much faster; how creative activity is often key to healing from trauma and mental illness; how the arts offer us pathways to death and through grief; how they bring communities together, preventing illness and keeping those with dementia and chronic ill health active, involved and flourishing for as long as possible. The Institute for Creative Health (ICH) is a national peak advocacy organisation that works to give all Australians more access to the creative arts, to support their health. In 2013 the ICH assisted both the Federal and State Health and Arts Ministers to endorse The National Arts and Health Framework, which stated that the Arts contribute to the health and wellbeing of Australian individuals and communities. This provides an ongoing policy commitment to including the Arts as a core component in supporting and improving the health of all Australians. BACKGROUND The Waiting Room Words Project is the Arts and Health Leadership Group NSW/ACT’s 2018 commitment to HAALP. It is our offering to the network of NSW Health and the Arts key contacts established by the NSW Health and the Arts Framework, to the Local Government Cultural Officers whose projects keep communities cohesive, to the doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners who include arts in wards and offices and clinics, to the patients and families and friends and carers and community who we serve. To further this momentum, the ICH designed the Health Arts Action Leadership Project (HAALP) 2017, which established Leadership Groups in Arts and Health in each state, who could undertake advocacy and lead efforts to consolidate principles and best practices in the sector. The University of Technology Sydney: Shopfront Community Program Graphic Design Students including Claudia Carroll, Daniel Giannone, Jessica Burdfield, Sylvia Zheng and Xinyue Wang Local Government Local Health Districts (LHD's) health and arts contact personnel, NSW Health Australia Council, Catalyst Grant The Institute for Creative Health Sydney Health Ethics, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney The Making Space Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2002 ‘Yes they said we would happy to be involved’ And we are a little amazed, and touched, - if not a little grateful and inspired! We wish to acknowledge everyone who has been involved in this project. We have contributors from rural, remote, regional and inner city areas of NSW - from an inner city Men’s Shed, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art groups, an older women’s drumming group, community individuals, a year 5 class from a Sydney Public School and the staff, university students and lecturers, readers groups, artists, arts facilitators and the people from all walks of life who put their hand up to be involved

US Metropolitan Area Resilience: Insights from dynamic spatial panel estimation

In this paper, we show that the economic crisis commencing in 2007 had different impacts across US Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and seek to understand why differences occurred. The hypothesis of interest is that differences in industrial structure are a cause of variations in response to the crisis. Our approach uses a state-of-the art dynamic spatial panel model to obtain counterfactual predictions of Metropolitan Statistical Area employment levels from 2008 to 2014. The counterfactual employment series are compared with actual employment paths in order to obtain Metropolitan Statistical Area-specific measures of crisis impact, which then are analysed with a view to testing the hypothesis that resilience to the crisis was dependent on Metropolitan Statistical Area industrial structure. </jats:p

Traction drive system design considerations for a lunar roving vehicle

Optimum design considerations of traction drive for lunar roving vehicl

4D, N = 1 Supersymmetry Genomics (I)

Presented in this paper the nature of the supersymmetrical representation theory behind 4D, N = 1 theories, as described by component fields, is investigated using the tools of Adinkras and Garden Algebras. A survey of familiar matter multiplets using these techniques reveals they are described by two fundamental valise Adinkras that are given the names of the cis-Valise (c-V) and the trans-Valise (t-V). A conjecture is made that all off-shell 4D, N = 1 component descriptions of supermultiplets are associated with two integers - the numbers of c-V and t-V Adinkras that occur in the representation.Comment: 53 pages, 19 figures, Report-II of SSTPRS 2008 Added another chapter for clarificatio

Dilution of zero point energies in the cosmological expansion

The vacuum fluctuations of all quantum fields filling the universe are supposed to leave enormous energy and pressure contributions which are incompatible with observations. It has been recently suggested that, when the effective nature of quantum field theories is properly taken into account, vacuum fluctuations behave as a relativistic gas rather than as a cosmological constant. Accordingly, zero-point energies are tremendously diluted by the universe expansion but provide an extra contribution to radiation energy. Ongoing and future cosmological observations could offer the opportunity to scrutinize this scenario. The presence of such additional contribution to radiation energy can be tested by using primordial nucleosynthesis bounds or measured on Cosmic Background Radiation anisotropy.Comment: 8 pages, no figures. Submitted the 17th of March to Modern Physics Letters

Early Dark Energy Cosmologies

We propose a novel parameterization of the dark energy density. It is particularly well suited to describe a non-negligible contribution of dark energy at early times and contains only three parameters, which are all physically meaningful: the fractional dark energy density today, the equation of state today and the fractional dark energy density at early times. As we parameterize Omega_d(a) directly instead of the equation of state, we can give analytic expressions for the Hubble parameter, the conformal horizon today and at last scattering, the sound horizon at last scattering, the acoustic scale as well as the luminosity distance. For an equation of state today w_0 < -1, our model crosses the cosmological constant boundary. We perform numerical studies to constrain the parameters of our model by using Cosmic Microwave Background, Large Scale Structure and Supernovae Ia data. At 95% confidence, we find that the fractional dark energy density at early times Omega_early < 0.06. This bound tightens considerably to Omega_early < 0.04 when the latest Boomerang data is included. We find that both the gold sample of Riess et. al. and the SNLS data by Astier et. al. when combined with CMB and LSS data mildly prefer w_0 < -1, but are well compatible with a cosmological constant.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; references added, matches published versio