Previous studies on idiom comprehension of patients with aphasia(PWAs)mainly focused on Indo-European speakers,examining whether PWAs could correctly extract the target meaning of idioms,while among Chinese PWAs,idiom...Previous studies on idiom comprehension of patients with aphasia(PWAs)mainly focused on Indo-European speakers,examining whether PWAs could correctly extract the target meaning of idioms,while among Chinese PWAs,idiom familiarity,context and other variables affecting idiom comprehension were rarely studied.Hence,this study aims to explore whether Chinese PWAs can correctly comprehend the target meaning of idioms,and further investigate the role of familiarity and context.For three Chinese PWAs,this study adopted the string-to-word matching task,taking Chinese four-character idioms as the experimental stimuli,and provided decoy words containing target meaning,literal meaning,unrelated abstract meaning and unrelated concrete meaning as the matching words of idiom items by manipulating the familiarity and contextual presence of idiom items.The results suggested that the PWAs could not correctly extract the target meaning of idioms and presented both the literal meaning tendency and the weak abstract meaning tendency,and the influence of familiarity on the comprehension of idioms was stronger than that of context.These results support the Graded Salience Hypothesis.展开更多
Local mesh refinement is one of the key steps in the implementations of adaptive finite element methods. This paper presents a parallel algorithm for distributed memory parallel computers for adaptive local refinement...Local mesh refinement is one of the key steps in the implementations of adaptive finite element methods. This paper presents a parallel algorithm for distributed memory parallel computers for adaptive local refinement of tetrahedral meshes using bisection. This algorithm is used in PHG, Parallel Hierarchical Grid Chttp：//lsec. cc. ac. cn/phg/）, a toolbox under active development for parallel adaptive finite element solutions of partial differential equations. The algorithm proposed is characterized by allowing simukaneous refinement of submeshes to arbitrary levels before synchronization between submeshes and without the need of a central coordinator process for managing new vertices. Using the concept of canonical refinement, a simple proof of the independence of the resulting mesh on the mesh partitioning is given, which is useful in better understanding the behaviour of the biseetioning refinement procedure.展开更多
By virtue of the technique of integration within an ordered product of operators a new four-mode squeezing operator that squeezes the four-mode quadrature operators of light field in the standard way is found. This op...By virtue of the technique of integration within an ordered product of operators a new four-mode squeezing operator that squeezes the four-mode quadrature operators of light field in the standard way is found. This operator differs from the direct product of two two-mode squeezing operators, It is the exponential operator V≡exp[ir （Q1P2＋Q2P3＋Q3P4＋Q4P1）].The Wigner function of the new four-mode squeezed state is ealculated,which quite differs from that of the direct-product state of two usual two-mode squeezed states.展开更多
The present study deals with the introduction of an alteration in Legendre wavelets method by availing of the Picard iteration method for system of differential equations and named it Legendre wavelet-Picard method （...The present study deals with the introduction of an alteration in Legendre wavelets method by availing of the Picard iteration method for system of differential equations and named it Legendre wavelet-Picard method （LWPM）. Convergence of the proposed method is also discussed. In order to check the competence of the proposed method, basic enzyme kinetics is considered. Systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations are formed from the considered enzyme-substrate reaction. The results obtained by the proposed LWPM are compared with the numerical results obtained from Runge-Kutta method of order four （RK-4）. Numerical results and those obtained by LWPM are in excellent conformance, which would be explained by the help of table and figures. The proposed method is easy and simple to implement as compared to the other existing analytical methods used for solving systems of differential equations arising in biology, physics and engineering.展开更多
文摘Previous studies on idiom comprehension of patients with aphasia(PWAs)mainly focused on Indo-European speakers,examining whether PWAs could correctly extract the target meaning of idioms,while among Chinese PWAs,idiom familiarity,context and other variables affecting idiom comprehension were rarely studied.Hence,this study aims to explore whether Chinese PWAs can correctly comprehend the target meaning of idioms,and further investigate the role of familiarity and context.For three Chinese PWAs,this study adopted the string-to-word matching task,taking Chinese four-character idioms as the experimental stimuli,and provided decoy words containing target meaning,literal meaning,unrelated abstract meaning and unrelated concrete meaning as the matching words of idiom items by manipulating the familiarity and contextual presence of idiom items.The results suggested that the PWAs could not correctly extract the target meaning of idioms and presented both the literal meaning tendency and the weak abstract meaning tendency,and the influence of familiarity on the comprehension of idioms was stronger than that of context.These results support the Graded Salience Hypothesis.
基金supported by the 973 Program of China 2005CB321702China NSF 10531080.
文摘Local mesh refinement is one of the key steps in the implementations of adaptive finite element methods. This paper presents a parallel algorithm for distributed memory parallel computers for adaptive local refinement of tetrahedral meshes using bisection. This algorithm is used in PHG, Parallel Hierarchical Grid Chttp：//lsec. cc. ac. cn/phg/）, a toolbox under active development for parallel adaptive finite element solutions of partial differential equations. The algorithm proposed is characterized by allowing simukaneous refinement of submeshes to arbitrary levels before synchronization between submeshes and without the need of a central coordinator process for managing new vertices. Using the concept of canonical refinement, a simple proof of the independence of the resulting mesh on the mesh partitioning is given, which is useful in better understanding the behaviour of the biseetioning refinement procedure.
基金The project supported by the President Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10475657
文摘By virtue of the technique of integration within an ordered product of operators a new four-mode squeezing operator that squeezes the four-mode quadrature operators of light field in the standard way is found. This operator differs from the direct product of two two-mode squeezing operators, It is the exponential operator V≡exp[ir （Q1P2＋Q2P3＋Q3P4＋Q4P1）].The Wigner function of the new four-mode squeezed state is ealculated,which quite differs from that of the direct-product state of two usual two-mode squeezed states.
文摘The present study deals with the introduction of an alteration in Legendre wavelets method by availing of the Picard iteration method for system of differential equations and named it Legendre wavelet-Picard method （LWPM）. Convergence of the proposed method is also discussed. In order to check the competence of the proposed method, basic enzyme kinetics is considered. Systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations are formed from the considered enzyme-substrate reaction. The results obtained by the proposed LWPM are compared with the numerical results obtained from Runge-Kutta method of order four （RK-4）. Numerical results and those obtained by LWPM are in excellent conformance, which would be explained by the help of table and figures. The proposed method is easy and simple to implement as compared to the other existing analytical methods used for solving systems of differential equations arising in biology, physics and engineering.
