OCP effects in catalan cliticization

In Catalan, sequences of sibilants are never pronounced as such. In most contexts all varieties coincide in the «strategies» used to avoid these sequences, namely epenthesis or deletion. Variation is only found in the domain of pronominal clitics (but not with other types of clitics). One source of variation is accounted for by decomposing a general constraint into two specific ones, which implies partial constraint reranking. The other source of variation, which involves a case of apparent opacity, is explained through an Output-Output constraint that makes reference to paradigmatic relations.

Micro-Computer Based Linear Scheduling Application for Highway Construction Project Control, HR-339A, 1995

This report describes a new approach to the problem of scheduling highway construction type projects. The technique can accurately model linear activities and identify the controlling activity path on a linear schedule. Current scheduling practices are unable to accomplish these two tasks with any accuracy for linear activities, leaving planners and manager suspicious of the information they provide. Basic linear scheduling is not a new technique, and many attempts have been made to apply it to various types of work in the past. However, the technique has never been widely used because of the lack of an analytical approach to activity relationships and development of an analytical approach to determining controlling activities. The Linear Scheduling Model (LSM) developed in this report, completes the linear scheduling technique by adding to linear scheduling all of the analytical capabilities, including computer applications, present in CPM scheduling today. The LSM has tremendous potential, and will likely have a significant impact on the way linear construction is scheduled in the future.

A general linear relaxometry model of R1 using imaging data.

PURPOSE: The longitudinal relaxation rate (R1 ) measured in vivo depends on the local microstructural properties of the tissue, such as macromolecular, iron, and water content. Here, we use whole brain multiparametric in vivo data and a general linear relaxometry model to describe the dependence of R1 on these components. We explore a) the validity of having a single fixed set of model coefficients for the whole brain and b) the stability of the model coefficients in a large cohort. METHODS: Maps of magnetization transfer (MT) and effective transverse relaxation rate (R2 *) were used as surrogates for macromolecular and iron content, respectively. Spatial variations in these parameters reflected variations in underlying tissue microstructure. A linear model was applied to the whole brain, including gray/white matter and deep brain structures, to determine the global model coefficients. Synthetic R1 values were then calculated using these coefficients and compared with the measured R1 maps. RESULTS: The model's validity was demonstrated by correspondence between the synthetic and measured R1 values and by high stability of the model coefficients across a large cohort. CONCLUSION: A single set of global coefficients can be used to relate R1 , MT, and R2 * across the whole brain. Our population study demonstrates the robustness and stability of the model. Magn Reson Med, 2014. © 2014 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Magn Reson Med 73:1309-1314, 2015. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Audit report on the Public Employment Relations Board for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Public Employment Relations Board for the year ended June 30, 2013

Négocier avec les Suisses au siècle des Lumières. La "ragion di Stato" à l'épreuve des réformes dans les relations entre Milan et le Corps helvétique (1706-1796).

RESUME : La thèse examine les relations entre le duché de Milan et le Corps helvétique dans l'évolution du système westphalien, à travers l'étude des réformes institutionnelles opérées par les Austro-Lombards sur le territoire milanais au XVIIIe siècle, où le bon voisinage tend à remplacer les traités qui assuraient jusque là les échanges économiques et culturels. L'analyse met en lumière le caractère négocié de ces transformations sur la base de l'étude des pratiques des nouveaux agents issus des milieux militaire et aristocratique. L'étude des anciennes alliances et la permanence de l'héritage espagnol dans ses relations avec le Corps hevétique rendent compte, dans une première partie, des modalités selon lesquelles la raison d'Etat donne à lire la modernité des pratiques austro-lombardes pour intégrer le duché dans la monarchie des Habsbourg. Les trois chapitres suivants saisissent l'impact des réformes qui amorcent une centralisation politique, où le choix des négociateurs milanais reflète la nouvelle situation du duché, dont les tractations frontalières définissent la rationalité du territoire comme limite de l'Autre. Correspondances officielle et privée, mémoires ou autres essais rédigés par les nouvelles élites administratives et diplomatiques milanaises ou viennoises illustrent les modalités selon lesquelles la suppression des anciennes alliances confessionnelles développe un système d'informations politiques pluralistes et sécularisées. Celui-ci se base sur une connaissance politique du voisin helvétique, rapportée par des observateurs mandés comme experts dont la pratique est tributaire des intérêts personnels et de la loyauté envers le monarque. Enfin, les deux dernières parties saisissent la centralité financière et culturelle des villes protestantes suisses, où l'essor bancaire supplante progressivement le système des capitulations militaires mais où les résistances politiques limitent les améliorations en matière de passage ou de sécurité frontalière. L'intense activité éditoriale des centres protestants helvétiques confirme l'attention des élites austro-lombardes sur les modèles d'émancipation économique et culturelle tels que celui de la République de Genève. A la veille d'un nouvel ordre européen, ils rendent compte de l'enchevêtrement des réseaux où émerge une classe de fonctionnaires qui, dans leur mission au service du prince, allient désormais leurs intérêts pour la République des lettres à une volonté de réformer l'Etat.

Data-driven topo-climatic mapping with machine learning methods

Automatic environmental monitoring networks enforced by wireless communication technologies provide large and ever increasing volumes of data nowadays. The use of this information in natural hazard research is an important issue. Particularly useful for risk assessment and decision making are the spatial maps of hazard-related parameters produced from point observations and available auxiliary information. The purpose of this article is to present and explore the appropriate tools to process large amounts of available data and produce predictions at fine spatial scales. These are the algorithms of machine learning, which are aimed at non-parametric robust modelling of non-linear dependencies from empirical data. The computational efficiency of the data-driven methods allows producing the prediction maps in real time which makes them superior to physical models for the operational use in risk assessment and mitigation. Particularly, this situation encounters in spatial prediction of climatic variables (topo-climatic mapping). In complex topographies of the mountainous regions, the meteorological processes are highly influenced by the relief. The article shows how these relations, possibly regionalized and non-linear, can be modelled from data using the information from digital elevation models. The particular illustration of the developed methodology concerns the mapping of temperatures (including the situations of Föhn and temperature inversion) given the measurements taken from the Swiss meteorological monitoring network. The range of the methods used in the study includes data-driven feature selection, support vector algorithms and artificial neural networks.

Savoir, faire ? Les relations chimériques de la psychanalyse avec la psychiatrie publique et l'université en Suisse romande

C'est souvent dans les institutions psychiatriques que le médecin développe les premiers contacts avec la psychanalyse. L'institution entretient pourtant avec la psychanalyse un rapport chimérique que les sociétés de psychanalyse contribuent à pervertir en restant cloîtrées. Telle pourrait être la thèse de Nicolas Despland qui souhaite, par un article qui défriche le problème, ouvrir la discussion pour trouver des solutions qui importent à tous les protagonistes. (Tribune psychanalytique)