Reanalysis in Hungarian Comparative Subclauses

My paper presents a diachronic study of the Left Periphery of Hungarian comparative subclauses, primarily focussing on the development of the complementisers and the operator. Adopting a cartographic approach, I will show that there were two main interrelated processes at work in the development of these subclauses, changing the initial configuration of hogy ‘that’ as a complementiser to a new one having mint ‘than’ as a C head, possibly followed by an overt operator. These two processes involve the reanalysis of mint from an operator to a complementiser by way of the relative cycle, and the appearance of new overt comparative operators due to a change in the deletion of the operator (Comparative Deletion)

Learning from Morella: the memory of the urban form and the dialogical-historical approach in the contemporary design

From the dialogical models defended by Mijai´l Bajti´n (Bakhtin 1982), GIRAS Research Group has analyzed for years the historical urban form and architecture, trying to clarify how the architect can at the same time, innovate and preserve, understanding that in the specific of each place are the seeds for a good modernization. (Muntañola 2016). To understand the relationships between history and memory and to clarify the types of memory that the architect can use to learn from the city, we use Paul Ricoeur’s theory (Ricoeur 2010) and Space Syntax as a theory as well as a meth- od (Hillier 1996). In the case study of Morella, Spain, we will see that the urban form of the historical city has kept in his memory the existence of an old gate of the wall, in a place that people has forgotten. With historical drawings, plans, written sources, with archaeological exploration and with Space Syntax analysis, it will be shown that the memory of the city is present in the constructed form. In Morella, we will find some interesting examples about how the architect can make bridges between the new design and the history of the profession, of the place and of the society, analyzing two heritage buildings restored in the core of the city, the town hall and a church as a health center, and two new buildings outside the wall, the Primary School designed by Miralles & Pino´s and the Secondary School by Helio Piñón, both of them with international awards. (Beltran 2015)Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Why to get a 2nd diploma? Is it life-long learning or the outcome of state intervention in educational choices?

This paper analyzes the determinants and labour market effects of further higher education studies of graduates, the factors that induce them to switch to other fields (switching decision) and in comparison the determinants of deciding upon “deepening” their knowledge (to proceed with further higher educational studies in the original field of study) and its labour market consequences. Based on data from a follow-up survey of Hungarian Higher Education Graduates the paper demonstrates that graduates who obtained their first diploma in other than their most preferred field specialisation are more likely to participate in further higher education studies and to switch to another field. In addition, this paper finds some evidence that those, who switch fields, lose a part of their human capital in the short run. The results suggest that state intervention in the supply of field specialities in higher education or the inelasticity of these supplies may lead to further higher education studies of graduates and to a wastage of resources.demand for schooling, human capital

A concise approach to small generating sets of lattices of quasiorders and transitive relations

By H. Strietz, 1975, and G. Cz\'edli, 1996, the complete lattice $Equ(A)$ of all equivalences is four-generated, provided the size $|A|$ is an accessible cardinal. Results of I. Chajda and G. Cz\'edli, 1996, G. Tak\'ach, 1996, T. Dolgos, 2015, and J.\ Kulin 2016, show that both the lattice $Quo(A)$ of all quasiorders on $A$ and, for $|A|\leq \aleph_0$, the lattice $Tran(A)$ of all transitive relations on $A$ have small generating sets. Based on complicated earlier constructions, we derive some new results in a concise but not self-contained way.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure

A Whole-Body Pose Taxonomy for Loco-Manipulation Tasks

Exploiting interaction with the environment is a promising and powerful way to enhance stability of humanoid robots and robustness while executing locomotion and manipulation tasks. Recently some works have started to show advances in this direction considering humanoid locomotion with multi-contacts, but to be able to fully develop such abilities in a more autonomous way, we need to first understand and classify the variety of possible poses a humanoid robot can achieve to balance. To this end, we propose the adaptation of a successful idea widely used in the field of robot grasping to the field of humanoid balance with multi-contacts: a whole-body pose taxonomy classifying the set of whole-body robot configurations that use the environment to enhance stability. We have revised criteria of classification used to develop grasping taxonomies, focusing on structuring and simplifying the large number of possible poses the human body can adopt. We propose a taxonomy with 46 poses, containing three main categories, considering number and type of supports as well as possible transitions between poses. The taxonomy induces a classification of motion primitives based on the pose used for support, and a set of rules to store and generate new motions. We present preliminary results that apply known segmentation techniques to motion data from the KIT whole-body motion database. Using motion capture data with multi-contacts, we can identify support poses providing a segmentation that can distinguish between locomotion and manipulation parts of an action.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, 1 table with full page figure that appears in landscape page, 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System

Decompositions of a polygon into centrally symmetric pieces

In this paper we deal with edge-to-edge, irreducible decompositions of a centrally symmetric convex $(2k)$-gon into centrally symmetric convex pieces. We prove an upper bound on the number of these decompositions for any value of $k$, and characterize them for octagons.Comment: 17 pages, 17 figure

First Passage Percolation on Inhomogeneous Random Graphs

We investigate first passage percolation on inhomogeneous random graphs. The random graph model G(n,kappa) we study is the model introduced by Bollob\'as, Janson and Riordan, where each vertex has a type from a type space S and edge probabilities are independent, but depending on the types of the end vertices. Each edge is given an independent exponential weight. We determine the distribution of the weight of the shortest path between uniformly chosen vertices in the giant component and show that the hopcount, i.e. the number of edges on this minimal weight path, properly normalized follows a central limit theorem. We handle the cases where lambda(n)->lambda is finite or infinite, under the assumption that the average number of neighbors lambda(n) of a vertex is independent of the type. The paper is a generalization the paper by Bhamidi, van der Hofstad and Hooghiemstra, where FPP is explored on the Erdos-Renyi graphs