Polysemy and word meaning: an account of lexical meaning for different kinds of content words

There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical words, i.e., words that contribute with content to the meaning of sentences. This debate has coincided with a renewal in the study of polysemy, which has taken place in the psycholinguistics camp mainly. There is already a fruitful interbreeding between two lines of research: the theoretical study of lexical word meaning, on the one hand, and the models of polysemy psycholinguists present, on the other. In this paper I aim at deepening on this ongoing interbreeding, examine what is said about polysemy, particularly in the psycholinguistics literature, and then show how what we seem to know about the representation and storage of polysemous senses affects the models that we have about lexical word meaning

What words mean and express: semantics and pragmatics of kind terms and verbs

For many years, it has been common-ground in semantics and in philosophy of language that semantics is in the business of providing a full explanation about how propositional meanings are obtained. This orthodox picture seems to be in trouble these days, as an increasing number of authors now hold that semantics does not deal with thought-contents. Some of these authors have embraced a “thin meanings” view, according to which lexical meanings are too schematic to enter propositional contents. I will suggest that it is plausible to adopt thin semantics for a class of words. However, I’ll also hold that some classes of words, like kind terms, plausibly have richer lexical meanings, and so that an adequate theory of word meaning may have to combine thin and rich semantics

Phenomenology of a SU(2) triplet Higgs.

We study the Renormalization Group (RG) evolution of the couplings in a model with a real SU(2) triplet in the Higgs sector. Insisting that the model remain valid up to 1 TeV we show that it is possible for there to be no light Higgs bosons without any otherwise dramatic deviation from the physics of the Standard Model

Environmental stress upon hepatopancreatic cells of freshwater prawns (Decapoda: Caridea) from the floodplain of Paraná River

In order to evaluate the influence of stressed environments on hepatopancreatic cells of freshwater prawns, Macrobachium borellii Nobili, 1896 and Palaemonetes argentinus Nobili 1901, (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) were collected at three different aquatic environments with different relationship to urban development in Argentina. Furthermore the effects of several cypermethryn concentration on hepatopancreatic cell of M. borellii and P. argentinus were evaluated in a laboratory assays. The "N° 1" lake (Santa Fe Argentina) which is more affected by the anthropogenic pressure and "Don Felipe" lake which is still not strongly by human activities were the studied sites from the floodplain of Paraná river. While Alejandra lake was the intermedia effects sites. Different damaged ultrastructures were found in F- and R-cells of prawns in the stressed lake. The predominant features were: disrupted the microvillous border, swelled mitochondria, reduction of endoplasmic reticulum, dyctiosomes, glycoproteins, desnaturalization of vacuole membrane and premature autolysis. Moreover the F-cell number was higher in the environment near to city than in the others sites. Similar effects were observed in the cypermethryn assays. The observations clearly indicate that the ultrastructure of midgut gland in the both palaemonids varies depending on the site from which animals are collected and the biocid presence. So, in this case it can be stated that the hepatopancreas histology of freshwater prawns is a good tool to monitor the impact of a stressed environment upon freshwater prawns.Fil: Collins, Pablo Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto Nacional de Limnología. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto Nacional de Limnología; Argentin

ELEKTRODEKOLORISASI LIMBAH CAIR INDUSTRI KAIN TENUN MENGGUNAKAN ELEKTRODA PbO2/Pb

Telah dilakukan penelitian tentang elektrodekolorisasi limbah cair industri kain tenun dengan elektroda Pb02/Pb. Penelitian dilakukan dengan mengelektrolisis sampel limbah cair industri kain tenun pada potensial 5,0 volt. Media elektrolisis zat warna adalah air limbah industri kain tenun sedangkan elektroda yang digunakan adalah PbO2-Pb serta pengaturan waktu elektrolisis selama 90 menit. Hasil akhir elektrolisis dianalisis secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif dengan Spektrometer UV-Vis dan analisis produk terhadap nilai total dissolved solid (TDS) dan kekeruhan. Hasil yang diperoleh menunjukkan elektrolisis air limbah industri kain tenun menggunakan elektroda PbO2-Pb menghasilkan dekolorisasi sebesar 98,8%, penurunan nilai total dissolved solid (TDS) sebesar 96,05% dan kekeruhan sebesar 99,90

Solution of the BFKL equation at next-to-leading order.

We solve the Balitsky–Fadin–Kuraev–Lipatov (BFKL) equation in the next–to–leading logarithmic approximation for forward scattering with all conformal spins using an iterative method