Copula

The world is never at peace; there is always some type of battle occurring whether it be mental, verbal, or physical. However, many of these battles are preventable. This is portrayed in John Knowles’ novel, A Separate Peace, a story about two boys, Gene and Phineas, and their path to adulthood during World War II. By struggling through life’s obstacles, the boys slowly begin to mature. Knowles incorporates elegant and choppy syntax to illustrate that the creation of inner conflicts results in a loss of innocence after being tested by one’s full potential. The undulating variance in punctuation portrays the characters’ development of inner struggles, allowing them to better understand the world and themselves. Such is illustrated after Gene breaks Phineas’ leg. Gene believes that Phineas wants him to fail school so Phineas himself can become superior. He later finds out Phineas never had such thoughts, realizing “I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn’t there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself” (101). It is Gene’s paranoia that causes him to carry out actions he later regrets. The semicolon placed in the first sentence after an uninterrupted independent clause allows for a pause, drawing attention to the unfinished but complete idea that there is always something evil in everything Gene loves. After beginning with another…

introduced copula function approach in the aspect of evaluating credit derivatives, the copula function has gradually become the main approach in pricing CDO (Burtschell & George, 2005). In Li (2000) paper, a new random variable named ‘time-until-default’ was created to demonstrate survival time of each defaultable entity. And the copula function approach is based on this random variable to evaluate the default probability of financial instruments. Specifically, copula function specify the joint…

model tends to ignore the significance of joint probability of multivariate dependent variables. Therefore, we propose the first effort ever to develop temporal and spatial models of coral bleaching susceptibility based on copula…

(ovary) were analysed for each treatment using least squares regression including significance test using LSMeans differences Tukey HSD. Main effects included in the model were age (ordinal), diet treatment (binary), doses of methoprene (ordinal) and their interactions. Variables with binary outcomes including mating probability was assessed using nominal logistic regression with significance test using likelihood ratio tests (G). Main effects included in the model were age of the flies…

6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25 and 30 days post emergence. Observations were initiated 90 minutes prior to the onset of dusk to observe any flies that initiate copulation early. On each mating day, at least four hours before the onset of dusk, ten males and ten females from each treatment group were placed individually in clear plastic 1.125 L containers with a mesh-covered window (ca. 28cm2) for ventilation. Each fly was individually paired with a sexually mature (12-17 days old) fly of the opposite…

and wind in a human context to make it more relatable and vivid. The wind is further highlighted with polysyndeton as it was “long and warm and slow” giving the wind a more relaxing vibe. Polysyndeton is further used in describing the trees as “swarming seas of elm and oak and maple”. The copula, in which he is situated in allows him to fully experience how vast and great these trees are that are easily swayed by the wind because of their grand height. These polysyndetons create and illusion of…

Mama Odie’s main role is to perform magic and give advice to Tiana and Prince Naveen. Mama’s vocabulary encompasses features of African American Vernacular English in her song “Dig a Little Deeper.” For example she says, “You blind to what you need” to Tiana. According to Rckford, This is a grammatical feature AAVE that includes the absence of ‘are’ which is known as zero copula (Rickford 114). This is a correct use of AAVE because the present tense of are or is were omitted. If the context…

In many sentences, Arlo used the contractible copula “is” to refer to the train set we were playing with, things in the environment, and answers to my questions. Moreover, Arlo primarily used the two Brown’s prepositions and the articles. Arlo mostly used simple sentences with a copula; however, he did use some regular past tense, irregular past tense, and third-person singular verbs. In the speech sample, Arlo had an MLU of 5.84, which is higher than what is expected at this age. Arlo used…

Therefore this claim is a universal affirmative categorical claim (A). Categorical Statement: ¶ 1 – “Embryos that couples want discarded are barred from being used in research.” This claim fits the categorical statement criteria because it is constructed by, “all” as unexpressed quantifier, “Embryos that couples want discarded” as subject term, “are” as copula, and “barred from being used in research” as predicate term. Therefore this claim universal affirmative categorical claim (A). Fallacy:…

their expertise to specify the parameters for the prior distribution during a Q&A session with statisticians. After that, statisticians will integrate all experts’ outputs and form a single prior distribution for the parameters. Several studies have been done on eliciting single parameter. However, In clinical trials, researchers need to elicit a joint prior distribution for at least two parameters (e.g. outcome rate with standard care and with improved care). Previous work had also been done by…