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Does Focus Improve Performance in Elective Surgery? A Study of Obesity Surgery in Sweden

Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Recent studies have found positive effects from hospital focus on both quality and cost. Some studies indicate that certain patient segments benefit from focus, while others have worse outcomes in focused hospital departments. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between hospital focus and performance in elective surgery. We stud...

The syntax of the Latin presentative adverb ecce: Relation to focus phrase

Published in Journal of Latin Linguistics

This paper provides an analysis of the variables that determine the syntactic distribution of ecce, a presentative adverb in Latin. Traditionally, grammarians have simply regarded ecce as an adverb (similar to here) or an interjection (similar to hey!) but this lexicographic view misses important syntactic phenomena. For example, adverbs in Latin c...

Operator focus in discourse and grammar: The two perfectives in Kakabe

Published in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

This study investigates how focus on a TAM and polarity value, known in the literature as operator (Dik 1989, Watters 2010) or auxiliary focus (Hyman & Watters 1984), is manifested in natural speech in Kakabe, a Mande language. I show that the opposition between the two perfective auxiliaries attested in Kakabe is best analyzed in terms of operator...

Measuring Geometric Parameters of a High-Power Infrared Laser Beam near the Focus for Applications in a Laser-Plasma Sho...

Published in Optics and Spectroscopy

AbstractMeasurements of geometric parameters of a high-power infrared laser beam have been realized by three methods. The obtained results are in a satisfactory agreement with each other. When focusing the beam with wavelength of 1.064 μm with a specially designed non-aberrational objective, a focal spot of approximately 40 μm diameter could be obt...

Continuous and discontinuous nominal expressions in flexible (or “free”) word order languages: Patterns and correlates

Published in Linguistic Typology

This study explores continuous and discontinuous word order patterns of multi-word nominal expressions in flexible word order languages (traditionally referred to as “free word order” or “non-configurational” languages). Besides describing syntagmatic patterns, this paper seeks to identify any functional or other correlates that can be associated w...

Processing subject focus across two Spanish varieties

Published in Probus

Linguists have keenly studied the realization of focus – the part of the sentence introducing new information – because it involves the interaction of different linguistic modules. Syntacticians have argued that Spanish uses word order for information-structural purposes, marking focused constituents via rightmost movement. However, recent studies ...

Indoor Air Quality: A Focus on the European Legislation and State-of-the-Art Research in Italy

The World Health Organization (WHO) has always stressed the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and the potential danger of pollutants emitted from indoor sources / thus, it has become one of the main determinants for health. In recent years, reference documents and guidelines have been produced on many pollutants in order to: i) decrease their ...