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This study ascertained the influence of gender, locality and age on metacognitive reading strategies of secondary school students. The sample size consists of 440 students randomly selected from 23 secondary schools. An adopted questionnaire tagged "metacognitive reading strategies questionnaire," was used as the data gathering instrument, with a logical validity of 0.88 and Cronbach alpha of 0.73 as internal consistency. The data collected were analysed statistically using descriptive statistics and t-tests. Data analysis revealed that females' reading strategies outnumber males'; females' global strategies ranked highest, while females' problem-solving strategies ranked lowest; and students in urban secondary schools tended to utilise metacognitive reading strategies more frequently than their rural counterparts. This study also shows that students with higher age brackets make more use of metacognitive reading strategies than lower-age students. Therefore, it is recommended that educators should be prepared to educate students how to effectively utilise various components of metacognitive reading strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines British Sufi responses to the COVID-19 pandemic within the broader context of Muslim experiences of and reactions to the pandemic. Set within a discussion pertaining to classical and contemporary expressions of Sufism, this article explores Sufi phenomena, including the murshid–murid (Sufi master–novice) dynamic, collective gathering and Sufi gaze (nazar) and whether these phenomena were possible within the inevitable digital environments Sufis were forced into as a result of the COVID pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, experienced in Britain. The author explores Sufi social and intellectual phenomena within classical and contemporary literature in relation to Sufi experiences in the West. She concludes that varied lived experiences and differing views on Sufism and both its classical and contemporary expressions were brought into question as a consequence of the COVID pandemic, the exploration of which are necessary in juxtaposition to one another to add nuance and depth and create holistic research of Sufi communities and Sufism more broadly, within contemporary Britain and further afield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are linear codes with locality properties for code symbols, which have important applications in distributed storage systems. In this paper, we completely classify all the possible code parameters of optimal ternary LRCs achieving the Singleton-like bound proposed by Gopalan et al. Explicit constructions of optimal ternary LRCs are given for each group of possible code parameters. Moreover, it is also proved that optimal ternary LRCs with maximal minimum distance 6 are unique up to the equivalence of linear codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the various proposals for quantum ontology, both wavefunction realists and the primitive ontologists have argued that their approach is to be preferred because it relies on intuitive notions: locality, separability and spatiotemporality. As such, these proposals should be seen as normative frameworks asserting that one should choose the fundamental ontology which preserves these intuitions, even if they disagree about their relative importance: wavefunction realists favor preserving locality and separability, while primitive ontologists advocate for spatiotemporality. In this paper, first I clarify the main tenets of wavefunction realism and the primitive ontology approach, arguing that seeing the latter as favoring constructive explanation makes sense of their requirement of a spatiotemporal ontology. Then I show how the aforementioned intuitive notions cannot all be kept in the quantum domain. Consequently, wavefunction realists rank locality and separability higher than spatiotemporality, while primitive ontologists do the opposite. I conclude that however, the choice of which notions to favor is not as arbitrary as it might seem. In fact, they are not independent: requiring locality and separability can soundly be justified by requiring spatiotemporality, and not the other way around. If so, the primitive ontology approach has a better justification of its intuitions than its rival wavefunction realist framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grammatical evolution can be used to learn bio-inspired solutions to many distributed multiagent tasks, but the programs learned by the agents often need to be resilient to perturbations in the world. Biological inspiration from bacteria suggests that ongoing evolution can enable resilience, but traditional grammatical evolution algorithms learn too slowly to mimic rapid evolution because they utilize only vertical, parent-to-child genetic variation. The BeTr-GEESE grammatical evolution algorithm presented in this paper creates agents that use both vertical and lateral gene transfer to rapidly learn programs that perform one step in a multi-step problem even though the programs cannot perform all required subtasks. This paper shows that BeTr-GEESE can use online evolution to produce resilient collective behaviors on two goal-oriented spatial tasks, foraging and nest maintenance, in the presence of different types of perturbation. The paper then explores when and why BeTr-GEESE succeeds, emphasizing two potentially generalizable properties: modularity and locality. Modular programs enable real-time lateral transfer, leading to resilience. Locality means that the appropriate phenotypic behaviors are local to specific regions of the world (spatial locality) and that recently useful behaviors are likely to be useful again shortly (temporal locality). Finally, the paper modifies BeTr-GEESE to perform behavior fusion across multiple modular behaviors using activator and repressed conditions so that a fixed (non-evolving) population of heterogeneous agents is resilient to perturbations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Craft beer represents a dynamic and creative segment within the food and beverage industry, emphasizing quality, aroma, health, sustainability, locality, and tailored brewing techniques. This paper explores the multifaceted roles of craft beer's production and consumption growth dynamics. Both a bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review were conducted on a sample of 239 scientific papers to provide an in-depth evaluation of the main characteristics and influences that craft beer has in the field of food science. Based on the identified roles of craft beer/breweries in the selected sample of literature, a conceptual framework was constructed to serve as a guideline for policymakers and different stakeholders. In this way, our findings enrich the existing literature and contribute to a better understanding of craft beer production and surroundings, which can be beneficial for promoting sustainable policies and innovative strategies for the growth of small/micro-producers and entrepreneurs in this niche market. Furthermore, this evidence can stimulate clear and ethical information to enhance consumers' knowledge and agendas to strengthen the identity of local communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces new neutrosophic principles aiming to extend and generalize the concepts of locality and nonlocality by addressing scenarios involving indeterminacy, together with partiality and multitude, in physics, mechanics, cosmology, biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, ecology, sociology. Locality refers to interactions or processes confined within a limited region of space or time. But there may be a Total (100%) Locality, or a Partial Locality (less than 100% and greater than 0%). The effects are constrained to the immediate environment. Contrariwise, NonLocality refers to interactions or connections between entities separated by space or time. The changes in one location have instantaneous effects on another. Similarly, there may be a Total (100%) NonLocality, or a Partial NonLocality (less than 100% and greater than 0%). Total (100%) or Partial (less than 100% and greater than 0%) Indeterminacy may arise from hidden variables and from environment. For instance, it may involve nonlocal connections between objects that are only partially entangled or influence each other in limited ways, rather than exhibiting complete freedom. The Principle of Partial Locality, Partial Indeterminacy, and Partial NonLocality implies an interplay of locality, indeterminacy, and nonlocality acting in a dynamic neutrosophic system. A generalization of (Locality, Indeterminacy, NonLocality) is the (MultiLocality, MultiIndeterminacy, MultiNonLocality). Practical examples from different fields are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the current study was to examine the sport motivations of three types of National Basketball Association fans based on their geographic proximity to the team: local fans (i.e., U.S.-based fans of a local team), nonlocal fans (i.e., U.S.-based fans of a nonlocal team), and distant fans (i.e., China-based fans). The author used the psychological continuum model to measure level of psychological involvement with the team in order to determine whether fans were casual, moderate, or loyal. Using one-way analyses of variance and factorial analyses of variance, the author found that Chinese distant fans reported the highest motivation for seven of the nine types of motivation measured. Results also show that geographic locality predicted significant motivational differences among casual and moderate fans but not among loyal fans. The findings have both theoretical and applied implications and call for stronger focus on the influence of locality in the sport industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The explosive growth of the Web and of social networks motivates the need for analyzing the macroscopic structure of their underlying graphs. Although the characterization of the structure of a graph with respect to its pairwise connectivity has been known for over 15 years, just one subsequent study analyzed the world inside the giant strongly connected component, where it has been shown that the largest strongly connected component has its own microscopic bow-tie structure defined with respect to pairwise 2-connectivity among its vertices. In this paper, we introduce the local microscopic bow-tie structure of the largest strongly connected component, demonstrating its self-similarity property. Our experiments, conducted on the several Web graphs and social networks demonstrate clear structural differences between considered Web and social networks.

This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related morphosyntactic production (VRMP). A sentence completion task tapping production of time reference and grammatical aspect in local and nonlocal configurations, and cognitive tasks measuring verbal WM capacity, verbal STM capacity, motor SOP, perceptual SOP, and inhibition were administered to 200 neurotypical Greek‐speaking participants, aged between 19 and 80 years. We fitted generalized linear mixed‐effects models and performed path analyses. Significant main effects of locality, age, education, verbal WM capacity, motor SOP, and morphosyntactic category emerged. Production of time reference and aspect did not interact with any of the significant factors (i.e., age, education, verbal WM capacity, motor SOP, and locality), and locality did not interact with any memory system. Path analyses revealed that the relationships between age and VRMP, and between education and VRMP were partly mediated by verbal WM; and the relationship between verbal WM and VRMP was partly mediated by perceptual SOP. Results suggest that subject‐, task/material‐ and morphosyntactic category‐specific factors determine accuracy performance on VRMP; and the effects of age, education, and verbal WM on VRMP are partly indirect. The fact that there was a significant main effect of verbal WM but not of verbal STM on accuracy performance in the VRMP task suggests that it is predominantly the processing component (and not the storage component) of verbal WM that supports VRMP. Lastly, we interpret the results as suggesting that VRMP is also supported by a procedural memory system whose efficiency might be reflected in years of formal education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a 'reformulation of Bell's theorem', Waegell and McQueen, (2020) argue that any local theory which does not involve retro-causation or fine-tuning must be a many-worlds theory. Moreover they argue that non-separable many-worlds theories whose ontology is given by the wavefunction involve superluminal causation, as opposed to separable many-worlds theories (e.g. Waegell, 2021; Deutsch and Hayden 2000). I put forward three claims. (A) I challenge their argument for relying on a non-trivial, unquestioned assumption about elements of reality which allows Healey's approach (Healey, 2017b) to evade their claim. In an attempt to respond to (A), Waegell and McQueen may restrict their claim to theories which satisfy such an assumption, however, I also argue that (B) their argument fails to prove even the so weakened claim, as exemplified by theories that are both non-separable and local. Finally, (C) by arguing for the locality of the decoherence-based Everettian approach (Wallace, 2012) I refute Waegell and McQueen's claim that wavefunction-based ontologies, and more generally non-separable ontologies, involve superluminal causation. I close with some doubtful remarks about separable Everettian interpretations as compared to non-separable ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her novel Chaoxitu, Lin Zhao shows the pioneer character of "New South Writing". This novel tells the story of a female giant frog is 1820s, which is not only deeply rooted in the Lingnan region of the late Qing dynasty, but also cares about the world. Viewed from the perspective of literary history, Chaoxitu not only expands the fictional territory of literature with its outstanding imagination, but also effectively continues the pioneer literary tradition. Furthermore, it makes it possible that the characteristics of the pioneer can take root in the ground with the Linnan style of the local writing. Lin Zhao put this local narrative in the grand background of globalization, through the dialectical relationship between the local and the world, presented a kind of writing "In the world", it shows the unique pioneering of the young writers in the vanguard nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For the subject of arbitrary image style transfer, there have been some proposed architectures that directly compute the transformation matrix of the whitening and coloring transformation (WCT) to obtain more satisfactory transformation results. However, calculating the transformation matrix of WCT is time-consuming. Li et al. trained a linear transformation module to generate a WCT transformation matrix for any pair of images, i.e., content image and style image, to avoid complex calculations and improves time efficiency. In this work, we introduce a flexible arbitrary image style transfer framework based on the LST, which uses deep neural networks to train a linear transformation matrix as the standard matrix for WCT. For the first part, inverse relationship between the Whitening matrix and the Coloring matrix w.r.t. the same image is enforced during the training of the linear transformation matrix, so that the resulting matrix will be more accurate and ​​closer to the standard matrix of WCT. For the second part, a split-and-transform scheme is proposed. Unlike LST, which transforms the block of feature maps as a whole, the split-and-transform scheme divides the feature block into several smaller blocks and transforms them individually, so that the transformation is more localized, and the more the number of divided blocks, the more localized. In addition, the proposed split-and-transform scheme allows users to determine the number of divided blocks to flexibly control the locality of the transformations. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and flexibility of the proposed framework by the high-quality stylized images and adjustable balance between globality and locality of transformations. The use of the split-and-transform scheme can reduce the computational time while preserving or even improving the stylization results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The BG REACH project used creative arts methods to support residents of a post-industrial community in the South Wales Valleys to reflect on what the heritage of their local area meant to them. Contrary to expectation, participants did not define their shared identity primarily in relation to the industrial experience. Connections with the pre-industrial past were equally powerful, as were positive views of deindustrialisation as a healing of the landscape. Moreover, the pieces produced drew extensively upon broader motifs of Welshness, suggesting that Welsh identity may not be as terminally fragmented as some scholars have argued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study property testing of properties that are definable in first-order logic (FO) in the bounded-degree graph and relational structure models. We show that any FO property that is defined by a formula with quantifier prefix ∃∗∀∗ is testable (i.e., testable with constant query complexity), while there exists an FO property that is expressible by a formula with quantifier prefix ∀∗∃∗ that is not testable. In the dense graph model, a similar picture is long known (Alon, Fischer, Krivelevich, Szegedy, Combinatorica 2000), despite the very different nature of the two models. In particular, we obtain our lower bound by an FO formula that defines a class of bounded-degree expanders, based on zig-zag products of graphs. We expect this to be of independent interest. We then use our class of FO definable bounded-degree expanders to answer a long-standing open problem for proximity-oblivious testers (POTs). POTs are a class of particularly simple testing algorithms, where a basic test is performed a number of times that may depend on the proximity parameter, but the basic test itself is independent of the proximity parameter. In their seminal work, Goldreich and Ron [STOC 2009; SICOMP 2011] show that the graph properties that are constant-query proximity-oblivious testable in the bounded-degree model are precisely the properties that can be expressed as a generalised subgraph freeness (GSF) property that satisfies the non-propagation condition. It is left open whether the non-propagation condition is necessary. We give a negative answer by showing that our property is a GSF property which is propagating. Hence in particular, our property does not admit a POT. For this result we establish a new connection between FO properties and GSF-local properties via neighbourhood profiles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An often discussed dimension of the locality conditions on allomorphy is visibility: when do the trigger and target of allomorphy "see" each other? An equally important dimension is intervention: when do the trigger and target stop seeing each other? Through the lens of a detailed analysis of Greek verbal morphology, I examine the conditions under which intervention forces the insertion of a default exponent. On the basis of two case studies on affixal allomorphy and one on stem allomorphy, I argue that patterns of intervention are easily accommodated under adjacency-based theories of the locality of allomorphy, and mysterious under less restrictive alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper investigates reflexives in Najdi Arabic (NA). We start by examining how the encoding of reflexivity in NA can be attained lexically, morphologically, and syntactically. We also investigate the argument structure of reflexive constructions in NA in accordance with Reinhart and Siloni’s (2005) bundling approach. Finally, possessive reflexives and their cross-linguistic distribution with definiteness marking are examined, providing empirical coverage to this area in NA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dining plays a pivotal role in the travel experience, with numerous studies identifying the significant impacts of restaurant attributes on tourists' destination experiences and their sense of place. The identified attributes include the origin of food produce, menu design, the physical and social servicescape, and restaurant reputation, all of which have the potential to enhance customers' sense of place. Therefore, based on theories of the production of locality, this study explores how destination restaurants "put place on the plate" and identifies how destination restaurants promote place. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the representatives of seventeen Michelin (one star, two stars, three stars, and Bib Gourmand)-awarded restaurants across Mainland China. The results reveal three primary strategies employed by destination restaurants in promoting place: forging partnerships with the local community to produce, present, and reproduce localities; leveraging local knowledge embedded in the local produce, recipes, cooking techniques, and local culture; and practicing translocality to introduce a regional cuisine to diverse and cosmopolitan consumers. This research provides a comprehensive understanding of the way in which notions of locality and place are used by destination restaurants and the way in which this may promote not only restaurants but also regional culinary cultures and destination attractiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’). We show that, in Greek, this bipartiteness runs deep: the two parts are syntactically independent, with the reciprocator having the syntax of a Condition A anaphor, and the distributor behaving as a floating quantifier. Once we turn to how these elements establish relations between themselves and their antecedent, we find that Greek reciprocals resist a movement‐ or Agree‐based analysis, since both elements can occur in positions inaccessible to movement/Agree. Given that the reciprocator can occur in embedded subject position, the Greek data also argue against recent attempts to reduce the binding domain to phases, instead supporting a more traditional definition of the binding domain in terms of the smallest XP containing the anaphor and a subject. Finally, we show that the morphosyntactic properties of the bipartite construction can be connected to independent properties of its two component parts and that these can, in turn, be related to interpretive aspects of reciprocity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explains how the so-called Einstein locality is to be understood in the Schrödinger picture of quantum mechanics. This notion is fully compatible with the Bell non-locality exhibited by entangled states. Contrary to the belief that quantum mechanics is incomplete, it is, As a matter of fact, its overcompleteness, as exemplified by the different pictures of quantum physics, that points to the same underlying reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Local journalism is a pillar of democratic societies, and its role becomes more critical during crises. But despite its critical importance, local news has faced immense challenges that jeopardize its sustainability in the U.S. This study examines the Colorado media ecology by comparing local news sources across four different counties during Summer 2020 and exploring the factors behind similarities and differences in coverage. Building on Napoli et al.'s (2017) framework to assessing the health of local news, the study uses content analysis to examine original, local reporting and coverage of critical information needs as well as type of framing in over 600 online stories appearing on the home pages of all news sources in the four counties. The findings reveal that the Colorado journalism ecosystem post-Covid outpaces U.S. local news in quality in the pre-Covid era yet aligns with disturbing trends pointing to inequities and disparities. In other words, rural, poorer, and more racially and ethnically diverse Colorado communities tend to have weaker news ecosystems and are more likely to become news deserts. The study also introduces thematic coverage as a necessary dimension to add to journalism quality assessment frameworks and discusses several approaches to salvage local news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

8In the last few decades, contemporary mosque architecture in Indonesia has separated itself from mosques' traditional language and symbols. Contemporary mosques tend to produce experiences of space and articulation of unprecedented mosques. However, the novelty is inseparable from an understanding of the regional context. This study examines the presence of critical regionalism in Indonesia's contemporary mosque design phenomenon. This study uses six samples to assess how the application of critical regionalism is present in contemporary mosques in Indonesia. This thinking has become an attitude associated with the abstraction of Islamic symbols within creativity in creating places. The use of local materials is the primary articulation in the application of critical regionalism. Thus, in this articulation, a spatial and aesthetic experience is formed that is not sentimental towards history, processing local materials in the context of modern construction, responding to local and climatic conditions and becoming an emphasis on tactile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The microservices architectural style aims at improving software maintenance and scalability by decomposing applications into independently deployable components. A common criticism about this style is the risk of increasing response times due to communication, especially with very granular entities. Locality‐aware placement of microservices onto the underlying hardware can contribute to keeping response times low. However, the complex graphs of invocations originating from users' calls largely depend on the specific workload (e.g., the length of an invocation chain could depend on the input parameters). Therefore, many existing approaches are not suitable for modern infrastructures where application components can be dynamically redeployed to take into account user expectations. This paper contributes to overcoming the limitations of static or off‐line techniques by presenting a big data pipeline to dynamically collect tracing data from running applications that are used to identify a given number k$$ k $$ of microservices groups whose deployment allows keeping low the response times of the most critical operations under a defined workload. The results, obtained in different working conditions and with different infrastructure configurations, are presented and discussed to draw the main considerations about the general problem of defining boundary, granularity, and optimal placement of microservices on the underlying execution environment. In particular, they show that knowing how a specific workload impacts the constituent microservices of an application, helps achieve better performance, by effectively lowering response time (e.g., up to a 61%$$ 61\% $$ reduction), through the exploitation of locality‐driven clustering strategies for deploying groups of services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The government has plans to build an Aerotropolis area, a city with an airport-centered infrastructure and economic topology to support local economic progress at Yogyakarta International Airport, Kulon Progo. The potential for rapid airport traffic means that the planned hotel development can be a facility for postponing plane departure schedules due to certain circumstances such as bad weather (incidental). Hotel development is implemented using a Javanese cultural locality approach which revives the atmosphere of traditional elements by creating local building shapes and patterns. So the issues raised are the concept of locality and the concept of hotel design. This research uses qualitative descriptive methods and analysis is carried out using theories from the architectural anatomy approach and the Javanese cultural locality approach. The result is that there are five aspects of architectural anatomy and three cultural forms that influence the locality of Javanese culture. The anatomical aspects of architecture are the environmental scope, site scope, building scope, form scope, and material scope, while the aspects of cultural form are the form of ideas, activities, and artefacts. Five architectural concept criteria were produced, namely the concept of an imaginary mountain-sea axis, Kiblat Papat Kalima Pancer, Javanese architectural buildings, Kawung batik ornaments, and local materials aimed at giving the impression of a building that is integrated with the area and still preserves Javanese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Extrusion-based 3D Construction Printing (3DCP) involves developing novel material mixtures that incorporate local geo-materials. Given that clay minerals and silt are major causes of soil variability, this study focuses on the fine fraction of soil to facilitate purpose-oriented design, classification, and standardization. We begin with an overview of current research in the field and general information about clays. Subsequently, we establish an evaluation methodology, examining various clay–sand mix ratios, along with locally sourced material to gain general insights into the material's clay-dependent macro-printability characteristics. The findings are then correlated and discussed in relation to the microcharacteristics of the clays, emphasizing the significance of both intraparticle and interparticle swelling for strength and cohesiveness. Factors such as swelling ability, and charge, which may be reflected by pH, are pivotal for strength; while the quantity of clay and its interparticle swelling ability, denoted by the plasticity index (PI), delineate cohesiveness, which is essential for pumpability and extrudability. Furthermore, the presence of organic material and other minerals is observed to have a significant impact on these properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on the 3-day workshop, “Botanical Colour Laboratory”, which mapped the colours of the landscape of Osterøy, Norway, through land crafting with natural dyes. Land crafting builds an understanding of, and connection to, the land. This article discusses the multi-sensorial aspects and the relations between humans and non-humans in the process of collective plant dyeing. The terms: situated knowledge, orientations, the unruliness of things, production of locality and mujaawarah (neighbouring) are used to reflect on the workshop and its entangled relationships to matter, landscape, crafting and knowledge. These terms are woven together with the experiences of the “Botanical Colour Laboratory”. The research is conducted as a creative practice with an ethnographical approach. By combining written texts with video and drawings, I have made new multi-modal field notes. These field notes give a glimpse into the multifaceted processes of plant dyeing. The research shows that projects like “Botanical Colour Laboratory” are highly relevant and can influence orientations to our surroundings through collective land crafting processes with our living and non-living neighbours.

This paper explains how the so-called Einstein locality is to be understood in the Schrödinger picture of quantum mechanics. This notion is fully compatible with the Bell non-locality exhibited by entangled states. Contrary to the belief that quantum mechanics is incomplete, it is, As a matter of fact, its overcompleteness, as exemplified by the different pictures of quantum physics, that points to the same underlying reality.

The study aims to examine the factors affecting the satisfaction and loyalty of foreign investors in a locality through ‘hard’ infrastructure and ‘soft’ infrastructure factors. The author used Cronbach’s Alpha, EFA, and SEM to analyze primary data and test the hypothesis. The findings indicate that factors such as Infrastructure, Human Resources, Investment Policy, Living Environment, Local Brand, Quality of Public Services, and Local Advantages impact FDI investors’ satisfaction. Meanwhile, Competitive input costs are the only factor affecting the loyalty of FDI investors which differs from previous research. These results serve as a crucial foundation for Vietnamese municipalities to implement various strategies to enhance satisfaction and bolster the loyalty of FDI investors, ultimately amplifying the draw of foreign direct investment into the area.

AbstractThis paper empirically and theoretically investigates the syntax of split topicalization in Jordanian Arabic, a previously undiscovered phenomenon. The results of a large-scale acceptability judgment task (n = 463) reveal that Jordanian Arabic displays split topicalization of various categorial types. Building on the labeling framework, the remnant movement analysis and the idea that there exists an IP-internal focus position below T and above the vP phase, I propose a unified analysis of all the categorial types of ST in Jordanian Arabic, where ST is reduced to remnant movement of a constituent (NP, VP, AP, etc.), from which a subconstituent has undergone focus movement to an IP-internal focus position. The analysis captures all cases of ST in Jordanian Arabic, such as splitting with ditransitives. It accounts for the fact that ST in JA is only grammatical with bridge-contour intonation: the intonation is read off the syntactic structure in which functional projections such as TopP and FocP are encoded. The analysis provides insights into the structure of the left periphery of the vP phase: it lends support to the view that this area could have a more elaborate structure than previously thought, parallel to that of the left periphery of the CP phase.

Abstract: This paper argues that case assignment is impossible in configurations that parallel generalized improper-movement configurations. Thus, like improper movement, there is “improper case.” The empirical motivation comes from (i) the interaction between case and movement and (ii) crossclausal case assignment in Finnish. I propose that improper case is ruled out by theBan on Improper Case: a DP in [Spec, XP] cannot establish a dependent-case relationship with a lower DP across YP if Y is higher than X in the functional sequence. I show that this constraint falls under a strong version of theWilliams Cycle(Williams 1974, 2003, 2013; van Riemsdijk and Williams 1981) and is derived under Williams’s (2003, 2013) analysis of embedding.

Several languages allow for hyper-raising, a structure in which a DP that is interpreted as the subject of a finite complement clause is spelled-out as the subject of the matrix clause. Hyper-raising challenges certain core concepts of syntactic theory related to movement and locality. Various proposals have been made for analysing these structures, the main difference being whether the final position of the DP results from movement or not. It has often been assumed that European Portuguese, in contrast to Brazilian Portuguese, does not allow hyper-raising, or only allows it in very limited contexts. In this paper, we present empirical data extracted from written corpora and experimental results attesting to the production and acceptance of hyper-raising structures by a number of native speakers of European Portuguese. We contribute to identifying the contexts that favour hyper-raising in this variety and outline a preliminary analysis to explain what leads these speakers to produce and accept hyper-raising, while many others systematically reject it. In our proposal, this difference results from the properties of the embedded functional heads T and C, and the way in which their formal features are checked. Specifically, we propose that those speakers dissociate Case features from person-number features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We give a representation for regular forms associated with dominated C_0-semigroups which, in turn, characterizes the domination of C_0-semigroups associated with regular forms. In addition, we prove a relationship between the positivity of (dominated) C_0-semigroups and the locality of the associated forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, an effect that we will call entanglement closed loop (ECL) and that results from the implementation of entangled states through quantum Fourier transform (QFT) blocks, is presented. The dual-channel Bell test can be implemented using two linear polarizers (LP) or two half-wave plates (HWP). ECL allows us to verify that the arbitrary relocation of both the LPs and the HWPs is indifferent when it comes to reproducing the results of quantum mechanics. Implementations of two conspicuous relocations of the LPs on an optical table experimentally prove the existence of the entanglement closed loop. Finally, a new interpretation of quantum mechanics based on ECL, which explains the operation of a new family of quantum communications protocols, is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine whether chief executive officer (CEO) locality affects firms' cost of debt. Drawing upon place attachment theories suggesting individuals develop affective bonds with their hometowns, we find robust evidence that firms employing local CEOs tend to have a lower cost of debt than those with non-local CEOs. More importantly, we find that regional heterogeneity plays an important role in shaping the relationship from economic and cultural perspectives. The effect is more pronounced in regions where the economies and marketisation are less developed. Furthermore, we show that the effect of CEO locality is stronger in regions with collectivism and regions with low social trust. Our findings hold up to numerous robustness checks and endogeneity tests. Overall, our study highlights the prominent role of the geographically segmented CEO labour markets as an intrinsic but underexplored non-contractual factor for value creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The pandemic pressed frantically every institution to adopt online learning to cover the possible learning losses brought by the phenomenon. With the novelty of the different learning modalities implemented by each school, this study explored the flexibility of college students in handling the HyFlex learning modality in terms of their motivation, behavior, stress, time management, and coping mechanisms. It was conducted in Midsayap, North Cotabato, Philippines, involving 25 college students who experienced the HyFlex learning modality. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to gather the demographic profile of the respondents and their motivation, behavior, stress, time management, and coping mechanisms in handling the HyFlex learning modality. Results showed that Most of the students who experienced the HyFlex learning modality were from Midsayap and College of Education BSEDScience 1st year and 2nd-year students with a monthly income of 5,000 to 10,000 Philippine pesos. Moreover, according to the department, no significant difference was found in handling HyFlex learning. Lastly, there is a significant difference in handling HyFlex learning according to locality and economic income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The times of Brownian local minima, maxima and their union are three distinct examples of local, stationary, dense, random countable sets associated with classical Wiener noise. Being local means, roughly, determined by the local behavior of the sample paths of the Brownian motion, and stationary means invariant relative to the Lévy shifts of the sample paths. We answer to the affirmative Tsirelson's question, whether or not there are any others, and develop some general theory for such sets. An extra ingredient to their structure, that of an honest indexation, leads to a splitting result that is akin to the Wiener–Hopf factorization of the Brownian motion at the minimum (or maximum) and has the latter as a special case. Sets admitting an honest indexation are moreover shown to have the property that no stopping time belongs to them with positive probability. They are also minimal: they do not have any non-empty proper local stationary subsets. Random sets, of the kind studied in this paper, honestly indexed or otherwise, give rise to nonclassical one-dimensional noises, generalizing the noise of splitting. Some properties of these noises and the inter-relations between them are investigated. In particular, subsets are connected to subnoises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of the basal ganglia has been a longstanding issue in neural language models. Huntington's disease (HD) shows primary impairment in the striatum and has previously been shown to affect the processing of phrase-structural hierarchies that are built by phrasal movement (e.g. in passives). Here we asked patients with HD to judge the acceptability of sentences containing different types of illicit phrasal movement, which were contrasted with semantic violations involving no movement. A logistic mixed-effects regression showed that patients had a profound impairment in judging incorrect but not correct sentences across all types of illicit movement, while the semantic condition was also affected, but significantly less so. Adding neuropsychological variables to the model did not improve predictions. These results demonstrate a loss of cognitive control, worsening with disease progression, over phrase-structural hierarchies, which extends to forms of meaning built at sentential levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]