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Gontarski, S. E. "AN END TO ENDINGS: Samuel Beckett's End Game(s)." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 19, no. 1 (August 1, 2008): 419–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-019001034.

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As it is in , the preoccupation of Samuel Beckett's is bluntly announced in its title. The play begins with Clov's announcing its end. Hamm will later summarize the play's opening words about ending as if beginnings and endings have not so much been reversed as redoubled, the play ending where it began, with its ending. One complication in this , then, is not that the play has no ending, but that it has too many, or that it has only endings. This paper then explores Beckett's game of perpetuated endings and its implications for theatre.

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Amit, Yairah. "ENDINGS - ESPECIALLY REVERSAL ENDINGS." Scriptura 87 (June 12, 2013): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.7833/87-0-958.

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LYSTER, ROY. "Predictability in French gender attribution: A corpus analysis." Journal of French Language Studies 16, no. 1 (March 2006): 69–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269506002304.

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This article presents a corpus analysis designed to determine the extent to which noun endings in French are reliable predictors of grammatical gender. A corpus of 9,961 nouns appearing in Le Robert Junior Illustré was analysed according to noun endings, which were operationalised as orthographic representations of rhymes, which consist of either a vowel sound (i.e., a nucleus) in the case of vocalic endings or a vowel-plus-consonant blend (i.e., a nucleus and a coda) in the case of consonantal endings. The analysis classified noun endings as reliably masculine, reliably feminine, or ambiguous, by considering as reliable predictors of grammatical gender any noun ending that predicts the gender of least 90 per cent of all nouns in the corpus with that ending. Results reveal that 81 per cent of all feminine nouns and 80 per cent of all masculine nouns in the corpus are rule governed, having endings that systematically predict their gender. These findings, at odds with traditional grammars, are discussed in terms of their pedagogical implications.

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Kreiner, David S. "Effects of Memory Load on Joke and Lexical Decision Tasks." Psychological Reports 77, no. 1 (August 1995): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1995.77.1.243.

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The effects of a five-digit memory load on joke and lexical decision tasks were measured. 72 college students read jokes ending with punchlines, consistent endings, or inconsistent endings and decided whether the endings produced jokes. Memory-loaded subjects were slower than nonloaded subjects, particularly on inconsistent endings which were surprising but not coherent with the body of the joke. Memory load had no effect on lexical decision time and did not interact with word frequency. The results supported the claim that working memory serves an integrating role in language comprehension.

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Purnell, David, and Jim Bowman. "“Happily ever after”." Narrative Inquiry 24, no. 1 (October 28, 2014): 175–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.24.1.09pur.

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The domination of a happy narrative frame has gradually broadened to include different kinds of endings, but a positive resolution is still often expected. Do narratives need an optimistic ending? Do hopeful endings begin to loose their credibility? Should we buy into the Hollywood scripts presenting an ending that solves or completes the plot by the end of its telling? Endings point to a potential future, and culturally we have been conditioned to write this future optimistically. Not everything ends well, however. Sometimes, things just end. Narrative conclusions can be optimistic and have catharsis, but not end with a “happily ever after” (Purnell, 2013).

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McCombs, Judith. "Endings." Feminist Studies 19, no. 3 (1993): 657. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3178112.

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Peters, Issa, 'Abd al-Rahman Munif, and Roger Allen. "Endings." World Literature Today 64, no. 1 (1990): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40146068.

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Edwards, David. "Endings." Inscape 2, no. 2 (July 1997): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17454839708413047.

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Jones, Mary. "Endings." Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 64, no. 2 (April 1991): 178–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032258x9106400211.

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Cording, Robert. "Endings." Sewanee Review 120, no. 1 (2012): 21–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sew.2012.0001.

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Wenthe, William. "Endings." Pleiades: Literature in Context 37, no. 2 (2017): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/plc.2017.0163.

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Mezey, Robert. "ENDINGS." Yale Review 105, no. 4 (October 2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/yrev.13256.

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Phillips, Esther. "Endings." Prairie Schooner 94, no. 4 (2020): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/psg.2020.0127.

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Mezey, Robert. "ENDINGS." Yale Review 105, no. 4 (2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tyr.2017.0061.

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Guan, Jian, Yansen Wang, and Minlie Huang. "Story Ending Generation with Incremental Encoding and Commonsense Knowledge." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33 (July 17, 2019): 6473–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016473.

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Generating a reasonable ending for a given story context, i.e., story ending generation, is a strong indication of story comprehension. This task requires not only to understand the context clues which play an important role in planning the plot, but also to handle implicit knowledge to make a reasonable, coherent story. In this paper, we devise a novel model for story ending generation. The model adopts an incremental encoding scheme to represent context clues which are spanning in the story context. In addition, commonsense knowledge is applied through multi-source attention to facilitate story comprehension, and thus to help generate coherent and reasonable endings. Through building context clues and using implicit knowledge, the model is able to produce reasonable story endings. Automatic and manual evaluation shows that our model can generate more reasonable story endings than state-of-the-art baselines1.

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Dupraz, Emmanuel. "Zu einigen Perfektbildungen im Sabellischen." Indogermanische Forschungen 121, no. 1 (November 1, 2016): 333–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/if-2016-0018.

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Zusammenfassung The paper deals with several perfect formations in Sabellian languages. A key feature of the Sabellian perfect was the use of secondary endings, as opposed to the primary endings of the present. Many formations, especially in Oscan, did not contain a specific suffix, but were characterised as perfects through the gemination of the final stem consonant and the proper secondary ending. Other perfects, mainly in Umbrian, involved the present suffix *ye/o- and were marked as perfects only through the use of the secondary endings.

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Cronk, Katharine M., George A. Wilkinson, Rachel Grimes, Esther F. Wheeler, Sonal Jhaveri, Bengt T. Fundin, Immaculada Silos-Santiago, Lino Tessarollo, Louis F. Reichardt, and Frank L. Rice. "Diverse dependencies of developing Merkel innervation on the trkA and both full-length and truncated isoforms of trkC." Development 129, no. 15 (August 1, 2002): 3739–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.129.15.3739.

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This study demonstrates that innervation dependent on two different neurotrophin tyrosine kinase (trk) receptors can form the same types of sensory endings (Merkel endings) in the same target (Merkel cells of vibrissa follicles). Some endings transiently express trkA during their initial development, whereas others express trkC throughout their development. Consequently, elimination of kinase domains of either trkA or trkC each result in a partial loss of Merkel endings, whereas absence of kinase domains of both receptors results in a total loss. At the onset of Merkel ending development, at least one kinase-lacking trkC isoform is transiently expressed on all the follicle cells, while neurotrophin 3 is transiently expressed only in the cells at the middle third of the follicle where the Merkel endings and cells develop. This transient non-neuronal expression of truncated trkC is essential for development of any Merkel endings, whereas some Merkel endings and cells still begin to develop in the absence of neurotrophin 3. Therefore, truncated trkC plays a more important role in the development of this innervation than kinase forms of trkA or trkC or of NT3, the only known ligand for trkC receptors.

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Whissell, Cynthia. "According to Their Plots, Jane Austen’s Novels Are Not Comic Romances with Happy Endings." English Language and Literature Studies 8, no. 2 (May 14, 2018): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v8n2p10.

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In order to answer two specific questions (“Do the plots of Jane Austen’s novels match the plot of Cinderella?” and “Do Austen’s novels include a comic or happy ending, defined as one where the author employs more pleasant language at the end of the novel than she did at the beginning?”), Jane Austen’s six major novels and Cinderella were scored for the pleasantness of their language with the Dictionary of Affect (Whissell, 2009). The answer to both questions, based on results of regression analyses and means comparisons, is negative. Austen’s novels are not variants of the Cinderella story, nor do they have the type of endings that characterize comic romances. Cinderella is very pleasant and has a distinct happy ending. In contrast, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey are less pleasant and have equivocal endings, while Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility have tragic (relatively unpleasant) endings. Persuasion employs the least pleasant language overall but has a happy ending.

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Komeda, Hidetsugu, Tomohiro Taira, Kohei Tsunemi, Takashi Kusumi, and David N. Rapp. "A sixth sense." Scientific Study of Literature 7, no. 2 (December 31, 2017): 203–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.17002.kom.

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Abstract Stories with twist endings are popular, but little research has examined how readers experience them. To begin developing such an account, we examined the affective responses that emerge during stories with twist endings. In Experiment 1, 28 Japanese participants read a story with a twist ending. Greater empathy and stronger expectations were associated with slower reading times during participants’ first reading of the story. However, on participants’ second reading, greater empathy and stronger expectations were associated with faster reading times. In Experiment 2, we tested the generality of these effects by asking 36 English-speaking participants to read four stories with twist endings. The results were similar to Experiment 1. Readers’ initial and recurring responses to stories with twist endings reflect changes in surprise and empathy. These feelings underlie engagement with and interest in unexpected and often incoherent contents, which are characteristics of stories with twist endings.

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Spencer, Renée, Antoinette Basualdo-Delmonico, Jill Walsh, and Alison L. Drew. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do." Youth & Society 49, no. 4 (August 1, 2016): 438–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x14535416.

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Endings in youth mentoring relationships have received little empirical attention despite the fact that many relationships do end. The present study utilized qualitative interview data collected from participants in a longitudinal study of community-based mentoring relationships to examine how and why the relationships ended and how participants experienced these endings. Interviews with 48 pairs of mentors and youth and the youth’s parent or guardian conducted at the time the mentoring relationship ended were analyzed. Three types of procedural endings (formal goodbye planned and completed, formal goodbye planned but not completed, and agency ended) were identified as were five main reasons for relationship endings (changes in life circumstances, youth dissatisfaction or disinterest, mentor dissatisfaction, gradual dissolution, and mentor abandonment). Interrelationships between ending types and reasons are discussed, as are the roles of relationship strength and program support in these processes.

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Fraccaro, Annalisa, and Sandrine Macé. "Never too rich to care about prices: Effects of price endings on customer perceptions of luxury." Recherche et Applications en Marketing (English Edition) 35, no. 3 (April 30, 2020): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2051570720908036.

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In this article, we build on the existing literature on price endings in the fast-moving consumer goods and luxury pricing to highlight the potential paradox of adopting odd pricing (i.e. setting prices just below the round number) for luxury goods, which should mostly use even pricing (i.e. round numbers). In a first experiment concerning luxury handbags, we test the impact of three types of price endings (–90, –00, and “other”) on luxury image and its sub-facets. We propose four mediators of the relationship between price endings and overall luxury image, that is, quality, prestige, uniqueness, and expensiveness. In a second experiment, we find that price endings have connotations specific to the luxury sector and to different segments of consumers. We conclude with recommendations to help pricing managers strategically adjust their price-ending practice to target different consumer segments.

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Hamilton, Mark W. "History among the Junipers: Hosea 14:2–10 as Metahistoriography." Biblische Zeitschrift 63, no. 1 (February 5, 2019): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06301006.

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Abstract The dual endings of Hosea promoted reflection on Israel’s history as the movement from destruction to restoration based on Yhwh’s gracious decision for Israel. It thus clarifies the endings of the prior sections of the book (chs. 3 and 11) by locating Israel’s future in the realm of Yhwh’s activities. The final ending (14:10) balances the theme of divine agency in 14:2–9 with the recognition of human decision-making and moral formation as aspects of history as well. The endings of Hosea thus offer a good example of metahistoriography, a text that uses non-historiographic techniques to speak of the movements of history.

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Castro, Carlos. "Happy Endings." Revista Lengua y Literatura 2, no. 2 (July 18, 2016): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rll.v2i2.9353.

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No sé por qué Lucrecia me duele tanto. Tres años y aún pienso que todo fue mi culpa: su decisión de ir como fotorreportera pese a saber que la tenían fichada; los infiltrados del Movimiento Antilúdico que provocaron a las autoridades; la lluvia de balas sobre los manifestantes.

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Doran, Teresa, Alex Skalding, Pauline Devine, Lorraine Francis, Elizabeth O'Hara, Elizabeth O'Hara, and Elizabeth O'Hara. "Happy Endings." Books Ireland, no. 252 (2002): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20632476.

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Greene, Gayle, and Sally Cline. "Unhappy Endings." Women's Review of Books 15, no. 7 (April 1998): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4022924.

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Shear, Marie, Sue Woodman, Marilyn Webb, Derek Humphry, and Mary Clement. "Unhappy Endings." Women's Review of Books 16, no. 9 (June 1999): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4023284.

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Bailey, Alison. "Nuclear Endings." Social Philosophy Today 3 (1990): 430–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday1990329.

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Doran, Teresa, Oisín McGann, Conor Kostick, Vincent McDonnell, Eithne Diamond, John Gallagher, Eithne Diamond, and John Gallagher. "Happy Endings." Books Ireland, no. 272 (2004): 304. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20624097.

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Knight, Jenny. "Happier endings." Nursing Standard 25, no. 5 (October 6, 2010): 24–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.25.5.24.s27.

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Davis, Carol. "Happier endings." Nursing Standard 20, no. 18 (January 11, 2006): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.20.18.20.s23.

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Pearce, Richard. "Pynchon's Endings." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 18, no. 2 (1985): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1345773.

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Galloway, John. "Happy endings?" Nature 396, no. 6708 (November 1998): 232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/24312.

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Moore, James. "Compassionate endings." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 14, no. 2 (March 1997): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104990919701400206.

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Kawin, Bruce. "Three Endings." Film Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2011): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2011.65.1.14.

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Kastner, K. "Best endings." Canadian Medical Association Journal 185, no. 1 (December 17, 2012): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120853.

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Lee, Colin Andrew. "Foreword: Endings." Journal of British Music Therapy 5, no. 1 (June 1991): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135945759100500101.

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Haber, J. E. "Alternative endings." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 2 (January 7, 2008): 405–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711334105.

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Levenstein, Susan. "Endings, Beginnings." New England Journal of Medicine 380, no. 8 (February 21, 2019): 708–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1813683.

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Blandy, Susan Griswold. "Endings/Beginnings." Internet Reference Services Quarterly 2, no. 2-3 (August 26, 1997): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j136v02n02_02.

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Donovan, Nancy. "Happy Endings." Journal of Womenʼs Health Physical Therapy 40, no. 3 (2016): 127–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jwh.0000000000000067.

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Vogel, Erica. "Ongoing Endings." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45, no. 6 (July 26, 2016): 673–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241616654542.

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This paper explores intersecting narratives of loss and possibility through the experiences of undocumented Peruvian migrant workers who find previously unimaginable possibilities for migration and love despite—and often because of—their inability to remain in South Korea. In this global space, Peruvians are surrounded by people in transit and are inspired to create long-term plans that would be difficult, if not impossible, were they documented and permanent—such as entering into hurried romantic relationships with other migrants. Forging temporarily permanent legal ties in Korea (such as marrying other undocumented foreigners) can have tragic results, such as when marriages dissolve and one partner disappears with the children into the global realm where the other has no legal or financial means to follow. Through re-telling the narrative, both the migrant and ethnographer locate points of possibility and opportunity, and give voice to otherwise undocumented global stories.

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SAGART, Laurent. "A model of the origin of Kra-Dai tones." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 48, no. 1 (June 14, 2019): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04801004.

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Abstract This paper finds origins for the three Kra-Dai tones in the segmental endings of Proto-Southern Austronesian, the parent language of Kra-Dai and Malayo-Polynesian. The Kra-Dai A category originates in sonorant endings (vowels, semi-vowels, nasals, liquids) and in Proto-Austronesian *-H2, reconstructed by Tsuchida (1976); the B category in *-R and in *-X, a hitherto not reconstructed ending reflected as -h in Amis and in the Bisayan language Aklanon; the C category, in Proto-Austronesian *-H1, reconstructed by Tsuchida. The tonal outcomes of *-s and *-S are described. Kra-Dai sonorant endings in tone C are argued to come from hypothetical Austronesian prototypes in which a sonorant ending was followed by *-s, a suffix of unknown function. Although the present model does not require Kra-Dai to be a daughter of Proto-Austronesian, the building blocks for Kra-Dai tones are shown to be in place during the Formosan phase of Austronesian phonological history.

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Jasanoff, Jay H. "The sigmatic forms of the Hittite verb." Indo-European Linguistics 7, no. 1 (December 2, 2019): 13–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22125892-00701001.

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Abstract Central to the problem of the Hittite verbal system is the status of the ḫi-conjugation 3 sg. pret. in -š and its relationship to other sigmatic morphemes—the partly overlapping 2–3 sg. ending -šta, the 2 pl. endings -šten(i) and -šdumat, and the synchronically unanalyzable *-s- of ganeš- ‘find, recognize’ and other s-extended verbal roots. The account of these endings given in Jasanoff 2003 is reviewed and, where necessary, revised.

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Zhou, Mantong, Minlie Huang, and Xiaoyan Zhu. "Story Ending Selection by Finding Hints From Pairwise Candidate Endings." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 27, no. 4 (April 2019): 719–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/taslp.2019.2893499.

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송정근. "Conjunctive endings and function-converting endings in school grammar." Urimalgeul: The Korean Language and Literature 68, no. ll (March 2016): 141–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.18628/urimal.68..201603.141.

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LALANNE, CHRISTOPHE, and JEAN LORENCEAU. "Directional shifts in the barber pole illusion: Effects of spatial frequency, spatial adaptation, and lateral masking." Visual Neuroscience 23, no. 5 (September 2006): 729–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952523806230050.

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We report the results of psychophysical experiments with the so-called barber pole stimulus providing new insights on the neuronal processes underlying the analysis of moving features such as terminators or line-endings. In experiment 1, we show that the perceived direction of a barber pole stimulus, induced by line-ending motion, is highly dependent on the spatial frequency and contrast of the grating stimulus: perceived direction is shifted away from the barber pole illusion at high spatial frequency in a contrast dependent way, suggesting that line-ends are not processed at high spatial scales. In subsequent experiments, we use a contrast adaptation paradigm and a masking paradigm in an attempt to assess the spatial structure and location of the receptive fields that process line-endings. We show that the adapting stimulus that weakens most the barber pole illusion is localized within the barber pole stimulus and not at line-endings' locations. Current models of line-endings' motion processing are discussed in the light of these psychophysical results.

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Aniss, A. M., S. C. Gandevia, and D. Burke. "Reflex changes in muscle spindle discharge during a voluntary contraction." Journal of Neurophysiology 59, no. 3 (March 1, 1988): 908–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1988.59.3.908.

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1. This study was undertaken to determine whether low-threshold cutaneous and muscle afferents from mechanoreceptors in the foot reflexly affect fusimotor neurons innervating the plantar and dorsiflexors of the ankle during voluntary contractions. 2. Recordings were made from 29 identified muscle spindle afferents innervating triceps surae and the pretibial flexors. Trains of electrical stimuli (5 stimuli, 300 impulses per second) were delivered to the sural nerve at the ankle (intensity: 2-4 times sensory threshold) and to the posterior tibial nerve at the ankle (intensity: 1.5-3 times motor threshold for the small muscles of the foot). The stimuli were delivered while the subject maintained an isometric voluntary contraction of the receptor-bearing muscle, sufficient to accelerate the discharge of each spindle ending. This ensured that the fusimotor neurons directed to the ending were active and influencing the spindle discharge. The effects of these stimuli on muscle spindle discharge were assessed using raster displays, frequencygrams, poststimulus time histograms (PSTHs) and cumulative sums ("CUSUMs") of the PSTHs. Reflex effects onto alpha-motoneurons were determined from poststimulus changes in the averaged rectified electromyogram (EMG). Reflex effects of these stimuli onto single-motor units were assessed in separate experiments using PSTHs and CUSUMs. 3. Electrical stimulation of the sural or posterior tibial nerves at nonnoxious levels had no significant effect on the discharge of the 14 spindle endings in the pretibial flexor muscles. The electrical stimuli also produced no significant change in discharge of 11 of 15 spindle endings in triceps surae. With the remaining four endings in triceps surae, the overall change in discharge appeared to be an increase for two endings (at latencies of 60 and 68 ms) and a decrease for two endings (at latencies of 110 and 150 ms). The difference in the incidence of the responses of spindle endings in tibialis anterior and in triceps surae was significant (P less than 0.05, chi 2 test). 4. For both triceps surae and pretibial flexor muscles the electrical stimuli to sural or posterior tibial nerves had clear effects on the alpha-motoneuron pool, whether assessed using surface EMG or the discharge of single-motor units. Based on EMG recordings using intramuscular wire electrodes, the reflex effects differed for the gastrocnemii and soleus. 5. In this study, reflex changes in the discharge of human spindle endings were more difficult to demonstrate than comparable changes in the discharge of alpha-motoneurons.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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Doran, Teresa, Gerard Whelan, Arthur Flynn, John W. Sexton, Richard Lysaght, Paul Bradshaw, Gregory Maguire, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, and Mike Parker. "Endings Are Important." Books Ireland, no. 259 (2003): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20624021.

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Cohen, Stephen, and Philippa Berry. "Shakespeare's Feminine Endings." Sixteenth Century Journal 32, no. 3 (2001): 878. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2671579.

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MacIntyre, Alasdair. "Ends and Endings." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88, no. 4 (2014): 807–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq201491528.

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