This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition as well as the relation between language acquisition, language contact and diachronic cha

The authors review the work of G.D. Forney, Jr., on the algebraic structure of convolutional encoders upon which some new results regarding minimal convolutional encoders rest. An example is given of a basic convolutional encoding matrix whose number of abstract states is minimal over all equivalent encoding matrices. However, this encoding matrix can be realized with a minimal number of memory el

An atomic-beam magnetic-resonance technique together with laser detection has been used to study the hyperfine structure of the metastable states of the 6s5d configuration of barium. Preliminary results for the 3D1 state, which has not been studied previously, are given.

Interstitial lung disease often occurs as an early complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc). The aim was to investigate whether impulse oscillometry (IOS) could be used to evaluate lung impairment in SSc.

The objective of the study was to investigate the antigen specificity and occurrence of individual autoantibodies in mothers of children diagnosed with atrioventricular (AV) block in a nation-wide setting. Patients with AV block detected before 15 years of age were identified using national quality registries as well as a network of pediatric and adult cardiologists and rheumatologists at the six

To estimate in gynecologically asymptomatic postmenopausal women with and without hormone replacement therapy (HRT) the prevalence at transvaginal ultrasound examination of 1) endometrial thickness ≥5.0mm, 2) intrauterine focal lesions if endometrial thickness ≥5.0mm, and 3) premalignant and malignant changes in the endometrium if endometrial thickness is ≥5.0mm and intrauterine focal lesions are

The development in sensor technology has made many wastewater treatment systems data rich but not necessarily information rich. To extract the adequate information from several sensors is not trivial, and it is not sufficient to consider only the time series. Different tools for detecting unusual on-line measurement data and deviating process behaviour are discussed. In this paper various dimensio

Requirements Engineering and Software Testing are mature areas and have seen a lot of research. Nevertheless, their interactions have been sparsely explored beyond the concept of traceability. To fill this gap we propose a definition of requirements engineering and software test (REST) alignment, a taxonomy that characterizes the methods linking the respective areas, and a process to assess alignm

To identify stop-codon variants associated with blood pressure (BP).