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Locus et telos : aller à l’école, être à la plage

open access: yesCorela, 2012
This paper discusses the telic reading of the constructions aller à l’école (« to go to school »), aller à la plage (« to go to the beach »). It extends the analysis of Corblin (2011) in the light of recent comments by M. Aurnague (Aurnague, forthcoming).
Francis Corblin
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«¡La de + N + que…!» The Feminine Definite Article in Spanish Exclamative Clauses

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
The present study explores the exclamative use of the feminine definite article la in structures such as ‘¡La de chicos que besé en la fiesta!’ (How many guys I kissed at the party!).
Juan José Arias
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Triangular Index Ratio as an Alternative Method to the Alpha Angle for Defining the Presence of Cam Morphology: A Prospective Cohort Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Cam morphology, which is a significant risk factor for hip osteoarthritis, is commonly quantified by the alpha angle (AA). This study aims to explore the potential of the triangular index ratio (TIR) to quantify cam morphology on anteroposterior radiographs by assessing the association between TIR‐defined cam morphology and the development of
Jinchi Tang   +7 more
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Predicting Definite Article Usages in New Englishes: Variety Outweighs Genre and Syntactic Function in Nigerian English [PDF]

open access: yesAnglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2017
Variability in the use of the definite article in New Englishes, and in particular, Nigerian English has received the least attention from a quantitative, probabilistic and predictive perspective.
Mayowa Akinlotan
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A Q‐Learning Algorithm to Solve the Two‐Player Zero‐Sum Game Problem for Nonlinear Systems

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 566-581, March 2025.
A Q‐learning algorithm to solve the two‐player zero‐sum game problem for nonlinear systems. ABSTRACT This paper deals with the two‐player zero‐sum game problem, which is a bounded L2$$ {L}_2 $$‐gain robust control problem. Finding an analytical solution to the complex Hamilton‐Jacobi‐Issacs (HJI) equation is a challenging task.
Afreen Islam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined ...
Maxim Kupreyev
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Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four English-speaking Jurisdictions

open access: yesNames, 2020
Toponymic literature generally recognizes three main structures in English: those with a specific + generic element (e.g. Tweed River, Mount White); those that consist of a specific element alone (e.g. Perth, Washington); and less commonly, those with a
Jan Tent
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Invisible Polymer Walls Enhance Reorientational Optical Nonlinearity in Oligothiophene‐Doped Liquid Crystals

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The polymer wall stabilized dye‐doped liquid crystals (PWLCs) enhance the sensitivity of photoinduced molecular reorientation in dye‐doped LC systems. The PWLC with an invisible polymer wall successfully reduces the threshold intensity and functions as an optical limiter under the incidence of low intensity light laser source.
Junki Yokota   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical writing for non-native English speakers: Help for usage of articles [PDF]

open access: yesScripta Medica, 2019
Many non-native English speakers, especially those whose mother language has no articles (like Slavic languages) make mistakes when they speak or write English. This may sound rather rough to English-speaking listeners or readers.
Škrbić Ranko, Igić Rajko
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Count-mass Distinction in the Acquisition of English Articles by Persian Learners of English [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012
Articles in general and definite articles in particular can create problems even long after all other aspects of English have been mastered. The present article investigated the learnability problems related to the acquisition of count-mass distinction ...
Mohammad Javad Rezai
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