PARADOX ISLAND: CONVERSATIONS ON CONSTRAINTS, COURAGE AND CREATIVITY
Rita Farin
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In the first two decades following Ross’s Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative ...
Jake W. Vincent +2 more
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Trapped in the prison of the mind: notions of climate-induced (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing from an urban informal settlement in Bangladesh [PDF]
The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints.
A Baldwin +75 more
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The Insect database in Dokdo, Korea: An updated version in 2020 [PDF]
Dokdo, an island toward the East Coast of South Korea, comprises 89 small islands. Dokdo is a volcanic island created by a volcanic eruption that promoted the formation of Ulleungdo (located in the East sea), which is ~87.525 km away from Dokdo. Dokdo is
Jihun Ryu +3 more
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Density-dependent, central-place foraging in a grazing herbivore: competition and tradeoffs in time allocation near water [PDF]
Optimal foraging theory addresses one of the core challenges of ecology: predicting the distribution and abundance of species. Tests of hypotheses of optimal foraging, however, often focus on a single conceptual model rather than drawing upon the ...
Andersson +49 more
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Active splitting control utilizes real-time decision and system-level splitting to prevent cascading blackouts and to maintain power supply under severe disturbances.
Yifan Zhou, Wei Hu, Yong Min, Le Zheng
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How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments?: A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips [PDF]
Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island
Casasanto, Laura Staum +2 more
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Measurement of Environmental Population Capacity Based on Island Environment–A Case Study of Hainan Island and Ireland Island in China [PDF]
In this paper, the influencing factors of environmental population capacity are categorized into three types: strict constraints, elastic constraints and non-constraints, and the systematic relationship among the three types of factors is explored, from ...
Chen Yijing, Zhu Yuanyuan, Lai Binyu
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Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence [PDF]
When considering how a complex system operates, the observable behavior depends upon both architectural properties of the system and the principles governing its operation.
Casasanto, Laura Staum +4 more
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Patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation deduced from apatite and zircon U-He ages from Fiordland, New Zealand [PDF]
New apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He ages from the Fiordland region of New Zealand's South Island expand on earlier results and provide new constraints on patterns of Late Cenozoic exhumation and cooling across this region.
Gurnis, M. +3 more
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