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    Null Subjects in Northeast English

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    This paper presents data and analysis relating to null subjects in spoken colloquial English. While English is not a „pro-drop? language (i.e. subjects must usually be overt), a corpus of speech collected on Tyneside and Wearside in 2007 shows that null subjects are permitted in finite clauses in certain contexts. This paper analyses these examples and follow-up questionnaires, and compares the data with the other types of null subject described in the literature (pro-drop, topic-drop, early null subjects, aphasics? null subjects and „diary-drop?), ultimately concluding that the colloquial English phenomenon is most closely related to diary- drop

    The appearance, motion, and disappearance of three-dimensional magnetic null points

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    N.A.M. acknowledges support from NASA grants NNX11AB61G, NNX12AB25G, and NNX15AF43G; NASA contract NNM07AB07C; and NSF SHINE grants AGS-1156076 and AGS-1358342 to SAO. C.E.P. acknowledges support from the St Andrews 2013 STFC Consolidated grant.While theoretical models and simulations of magnetic reconnection often assume symmetry such that the magnetic null point when present is co-located with a flow stagnation point, the introduction of asymmetry typically leads to non-ideal flows across the null point. To understand this behavior, we present exact expressions for the motion of three-dimensional linear null points. The most general expression shows that linear null points move in the direction along which the magnetic field and its time derivative are antiparallel. Null point motion in resistive magnetohydrodynamics results from advection by the bulk plasma flow and resistive diffusion of the magnetic field, which allows non-ideal flows across topological boundaries. Null point motion is described intrinsically by parameters evaluated locally; however, global dynamics help set the local conditions at the null point. During a bifurcation of a degenerate null point into a null-null pair or the reverse, the instantaneous velocity of separation or convergence of the null-null pair will typically be infinite along the null space of the Jacobian matrix of the magnetic field, but with finite components in the directions orthogonal to the null space. Not all bifurcating null-null pairs are connected by a separator. Furthermore, except under special circumstances, there will not exist a straight line separator connecting a bifurcating null-null pair. The motion of separators cannot be described using solely local parameters because the identification of a particular field line as a separator may change as a result of non-ideal behavior elsewhere along the field line.Peer reviewe

    A Study of the Classical Landscape at the Wang River Villa of Wang Wei

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    The landscape of Wang Wei's Wang River Villa is examined by reviewing the essays and papers written about the poetical collaboration, the “Wang River Collection.” The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meaning of villa architecture in China. The author expects that this research will contribute to a mutual understanding between cultures. The villa was a Utopia for Wang. On the other hand, he was a pious Buddhist and Buddhistic concepts are reflected in the landscape. I consider the features of the classical landscape of Xie Lingyun and "Chu Ci," as written in “The Collection,” a reflection of the Buddhistic concept. When considering what the classics meant to Wang Wei, it is apparent that his villa is a representation of the classical landscape. It is not an imitation of the classical landscape, but a unique and original creation of art by Wang.departmental bulletin pape

    First person – Yihua Wang

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    First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yihua Wang is the first author on ‘Nuclear entry and export of FIH are mediated by HIF1α and exportin1, respectively’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Yihua is a Lecturer in Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, studying cell signalling in lung fibrosis and cancer, drug target validation and gene function analysis

    Estimation in threshold autoregressive models with a stationary and a unit root regime

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    This paper treats estimation in a class of new nonlinear threshold autoregressive models with both a stationary and a unit root regime. Existing literature on nonstationary threshold models have basically focused on models where the nonstationarity can be removed by differencing and/or where the threshold variable is stationary. This is not the case for the process we consider, and nonstandard estimation problems are the result. This paper proposes a parameter estimation method for such nonlinear threshold autoregressive models using the theory of null recurrent Markov chains. Under certain assumptions, we show that the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimators of the parameters involved are asymptotically consistent. Furthermore, it can be shown that the OLS estimator of the coefficient parameter involved in the stationary regime can still be asymptotically normal while the OLS estimator of the coefficient parameter involved in the nonstationary regime has a nonstandard asymptotic distribution. In the limit, the rate of convergence in the stationary regime is asymptotically proportional to n-1/4, whereas it is n-1 in the nonstationary regime. The proposed theory and estimation method are illustrated by both simulated data and a real data example.Autoregressive process; null-recurrent process; semiparametric model; threshold time series; unit root structure.

    Linear Operator Inequality and Null Controllability with Vanishing Energy for Unbounded Control Systems

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    We consider a linear boundary or point control system on a Hilbert space HH which is null controllable at some time T0>0T_0 >0. To every initial state y0H y_0 \in H we associate the minimal ``energy'' needed to transfer y0 y_0 to 0 0 in a time TT0 T \ge T_0 (``energy'' of a control being the square of its L2 L^2 norm). Clearly, it decreases with the control time T T . We shall prove that, under suitable spectral properties of the linear system operator, the minimal energy converges to 0 0 for $ T\to+\infty

    Supporting the research process through expanded library data services

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    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how the authors gained a better understanding of the variety of library users' data needs, and how gradually some new data services were established based on current capabilities.Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a case study of the new data services at the John Cotton Dana Library, at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark campus, to demonstrate the possible ways to extend data reference services and provide data computing services. A content analysis of services records shows how each user group falls into the multiple data services levels and subcategories.Findings – Library users can be classified into many different categories, and each of these may have different needs. Research centers might have big projects involving data gathering and applications where a librarian can mainly provide consultation; while an individual faculty member or student might need the librarians as research partners, with help for their specific problems. Computing data services can involve group training and statistical analysis assistance, where researchers need emergent help. Data librarians can take various opportunities for data management education, thereby gradually raising awareness and cultivating better research habits among researchers.Originality/value – Library data computing services can make unique contributions to faculty and students' research and study. Institution, library and users' interaction determines the levels and extent of data services and is generalized from the description and analysis of typical data service examples. Classic concept of data services levels is applied to a concrete case of data services program, and sub-categories of each data services level and user types are developed based on the authors' services record.This article is (c) Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here at the RUcore: Rutgers University Community Repository . Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Peer reviewe

    The supporting information for Spatial Changes of Late Quaternary Slip Rates along the Gyaring Co Fault: Implications for Strain Partitioning and Deformation Modes in Central Tibet

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    Author: Wang Duo, Hong Chang, Gongming Yin, Fei Han, Zebin Mao, Jinhua Du Wenjun Zheng and Xulong Wang Corresponding author: Xulong Wang ([email protected]) Contents of this file Text S1 Figures S1 to S3 Table S1 Introduction The supporting information including sampling, pretreatments, all details of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and collected rates and ages along strike-slip and normal faults in central Tibet. Text S1 shows detailed OSL dating processing and analysis procedures. Figures S1, S2 and S3 show OSL dating details at Kong Co, Aruo and Nacha site, respectively. Table S1 shows the rates and ages of strike-slip and normal faults and their corresponding references in central Tibet

    The supporting information for Spatial Changes of Late Quaternary Slip Rates along the Gyaring Co Fault: Implications for Strain Partitioning and Deformation Modes in Central Tibet

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    Author: Wang Duo, Hong Chang, Gongming Yin, Fei Han, Zebin Mao, Jinhua Du Wenjun Zheng and Xulong Wang Corresponding author: Xulong Wang ([email protected]) Contents of this file Text S1 Figures S1 to S3 Table S1 Introduction The supporting information including sampling, pretreatments, all details of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and collected rates and ages along strike-slip and normal faults in central Tibet. Text S1 shows detailed OSL dating processing and analysis procedures. Figures S1, S2 and S3 show OSL dating details at Kong Co, Aruo and Nacha site, respectively. Table S1 shows the rates and ages of strike-slip and normal faults and their corresponding references in central Tibet

    The Supporting Information for Spatial Changes in Late Quaternary Slip Rates along the Gyaring Co Fault: Implications for Strain Partitioning and Deformation Modes in Central Tibet

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    Author: Wang Duo, Hong Chang, Gongming Yin, Fei Han, Zebin Mao, Jinhua Du Wenjun Zheng and Xulong Wang Corresponding author: Xulong Wang ([email protected]) Contents of this file Text S1 Figures S1 to S3 Table S1 Introduction The supporting information including sampling, pretreatments, all details of Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and collected rates and ages along strike-slip and normal faults in central Tibet. Text S1 shows detailed OSL dating processing and analysis procedures. Figures S1, S2 and S3 show OSL dating details at Kong Co, Aruo and Nacha site, respectively. Table S1 shows the rates and ages of strike-slip and normal faults and their corresponding references in central Tibet
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