Virginia and the Mexican War

Virginia\u27s initial response to the news of the war was the patriotic reply of all citizens when the national flag is attacked. Within a few days, however, the party strife over the origin of the war and the fight for the political pie to be gained at its conclusion began. The state at this time, and the resulting political maneuvering thwarted a more active support of the war

Beyond decomposition: processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition

Four experiments investigate the effects of covert morphological complexity during visual word recognition. Zero-derivations occur in English in which a change of word class occurs without any change in surface form (e.g., a boat-to boat; to soak-a soak). Boat is object-derived and is a basic noun (N), whereas soak is action-derived and is a basic verb (V). As the suffix {-ing} is only attached to verbs, deriving boating from its base, requires two steps, boat(N)>boat(V)>boating(V), while soaking can be derived in one step from soak(V). Experiments 1 to 3 used masked priming at different prime durations to test matched sets of one and two-step verbs for morphological (soaking-SOAK) and semantic priming (jolting-SOAK). Experiment 4 employed a delayed-priming paradigm in which the full verb forms (soaking and boating) were primed by noun and verb phrases (a soak/to soak, a boat/to boat). In both paradigms, different morphological priming patterns were observed for one-step and two-step verbs, demonstrating that morphological processing cannot be reduced to surface form-based segmentation

Exploring the role of morphemes in word reading

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Floorplan2IFC: Transformation of building floor plans into hierarchical IFC-graphs

This paper proposes an approach to enhance architects’ ability to reuse knowledge from previous projects during the early design phases of buildings. Therefore, the use of buildings is discussed to enable efficient comparisons and to apply knowledge from previous projects for new ones. A graph-based comparison based on the hierarchical Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and a retrieval of similar models has proven highly efficient in related researches. However, the lack of available models limits the applicability of this approach. An alternative method for capturing data from building floor plans and transforming it into a graphical structure based on IFC is provided. This involves analyzing the data contained in floor plans and implementing a tool to transform plans into an IFC floor plan graph. Additionally, it is defined how information is presented in this graph and how missing information is handled to facilitate comparisons with other graphs. The developed interface enables the transformation of 2D floor plans into an IFC graph structure and enhances an existing case base of building graphs, providing architects with an increased ability to find a design solution for an emerging project. It increases the efficiency of decision-making and accelerates the planning phase