Differential Difficulty : Second Language Acquisition of English Prepositions

Article信州大学人文社会科学研究 10: 52-67(2016)departmental bulletin pape

Augmenting Qualitative Simulation with Global Filtering

Capturing correct changes both locally and globally is crucial to predicting the behavior of physical systems. However, due to the nature of qualitative simulation techniques, they cannot avoid losing some information which is useful for finding precise global behavior. This paper describes how global constraints are represented and m a nipulated in current simulation systems, using a model of an internal combustion engine. The basic idea of our approach is to automatically generate additional information for maintaining global constraints during simulation so that simulation techniques can filter global behaviors with the sufficient information. This is done by automatically introducing variables and controlling their values to guide correct transitions between the behaviors. W e express this idea within the framework of Qualitative Process (QP) theory. This technique has been implemented and integrated into an existing qualitative simulation program QPE

Acquisition of the English Preposition at

Faulty or Misleading Proximal CuesArticle信州大学人文社会科学研究 6: 148-164(2012)departmental bulletin pape

Expanding Universe and Dynamical Compactification Using Yang-Mills Instantons

We consider an eight-dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills theory to explore whether Yang-Mills instantons formed in extra dimensions can induce the dynamical instability of our four-dimensional spacetime. We show that the Yang-Mills instantons in extra dimensions can trigger the expansion of our universe in four-dimensional spacetime as well as the dynamical compactification of extra dimensions. We also discuss a possibility to realize a reheating mechanism via the quantum back-reaction from the contracting tiny internal space with a smeared instanton.Comment: v3; 26 pages, 6 figures, version to be published in JHE