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The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference
(University of Michigan Library, 2002)
Siegel defends "Limited Intentionism", a theory of what secures the semantic reference of uses of bare demonstratives ("this", "that" and their plurals). According to Limited Intentionism, demonstrative reference is fixed ...
Emotion Processing and its Relationship to Social Functioning in Schizophrenia Patients
(Elsevier, 2002)
Schizophrenia patients have demonstrated deficits in affect recognition. Whether this deficit is part of a general difficulty in face perception or a specific problem in affect recognition is debatable. However, there is ...
Real Sources of European Currency Policy: Sectoral Interests and European Monetary Integration
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
For more than thirty years, until the completion of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the member states of the European Union (EU) attempted to fix regional exchange rates. Naturally enough, most explanations of this ...
The Power of a Pebble: Exploring and Mapping Directed Graphs
(Elsevier, 2002)
Exploring and mapping an unknown environment is a fundamental problem that is studied in a variety of contexts. Many results have focused on finding efficient solutions to restricted versions of the problem. In this paper, ...
Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes, and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s
(Elsevier, 2002)
We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995–96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and ...
Portability; Or, the Traveling Uses of a Poetic Idea
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Currency Unions
(MIT Press, 2002)
Common currencies affect trading costs and, thereby, the amounts of trade, output, and consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, the adoption of another country's currency trades off the benefits of commitment ...
Surface Evolution Under Curvature Flows
(Elsevier, 2002)
In many areas of computer vision, such as multiscale analysis and shape description, an image or surface is smoothed by a nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation to eliminate noise and to reveal the large global ...
Modality-Specific Deterioration in Naming Verbs in Nonfluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002)
A longitudinal study of oral and written naming and comprehension of nouns and verbs in an individual (M. M. L.) with nonfluent primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is reported. M. M. L. showed progressive deterioration of ...
A Phylogenetic Study of the Genus Cookeina
(New York Botanical Garden, 2002)
<i>Cookeina</i>, with seven recognized species, is one of the commonly encountered genera of the Sarcoscyphaceae (Pezizales) in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. Morphologically the species are distinguished ...