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William Morris's "Praise of My Lady"
(2018-12-05)
William Morris (1834-1896) was probably one of the most influential men in the Victorian Era. A designer, writer, book printer, and a committed Socialist, much of his work helped shape Victorian England and continues, still ...
The representation of polysemy in the mental lexicon and its processing
(2018-12-04)
Polysemy, the lexical semantic phenomenon in which a word form has different but related senses, is pervasive in natural languages. Examples of polysemy encompass regular polysemy and idiosyncratic forms, such as paper and ...
Are Semelfactives a basic aspectual category?
(2018-12-03)
This paper is an analysis of Semelfactives, the aspectual class introduced and defined by Smith (1991) as single-stage events occurring very quickly. Examples of Semelfactives include bodily events (e.g. blink, sneeze, ...
Vowel change in English and German: a comparative analysis
(2018-12-05)
English and German descend from the same parent language: West-Germanic, from which other languages, such as Dutch, Afrikaans, Flemish, or Frisian come as well. These would, therefore, be called “sister” languages, since ...
Application of ion chromatography in determination of carboxylic acids and inorganic anions in selected drugs
(2018-12-21)
[EN] The focus of this work is the analysis of various drugs as well as the validation of a method for the analysis of the ascorbic acid in drugs using ion chromatography with suppressed conductivity. In order to do this ...
Cubic Surfaces
(2018-12-21)
[ES] Estudio de las supeficies cúbicas suaves complejas. Demostración del Teorema de Cayley-Salmon sobre las 27 rectas. Estudio de la configuración de éstas.
Teorema de Clebsch y la parametrización de las superficies ...
Hyperbolic manifolds and Mostow’s rigidity theorem
(2018-12-21)
[EN] We present hyperbolic geometry and some of its models, define the concept of a hyperbolic manifold, and prove Mostow's rigidity theorem, which states, among other things, that for certain hyperbolic manifolds geometric ...
Classification and Physical Aspects of Constant Mean Curvature Rotational Surfaces
(2018-12-21)
[EN] The aim of this Degree’s Final Dissertation is to
review some fundamental facts on CMC surfaces with rotational symmetry.
We will use modern tools to prove the classical Delaunay’s classification of
CMC rotational ...
Negative Inversion in Standard English
(2018-12-04)
This paper focuses on the description of several controversial properties of Negative Inversion (NI) in Standard English. The first topic is the fact that, according to some scholars, subject-auxiliary (subj-aux) inversion ...
Gender Hybrids: The Representation of Femininity and Masculinity in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Colin Trevorrow`s Jurassic World
(2018-12-03)
[EN] Gender representation in Hollywood action cinema has inevitably become the object of a wide debate among its critics. The history of film can be divided in different periods according to the way in which gender reflected ...