Slates, virtual

Since the stories are mythical, the gestures are not a response to any externally given spatial array. Rather, they create a virtual space in front of the speaker. For example, the pointing gestures in the stories do not point to any real location or direction. They establish a location or a direction in the gesturally created story-space (they are gestures of what has been called abstract deixis in McNeill, Cassell Levy (1993) and McNeill (to appear)). The structure of this virtual space reveals how space is spontaneously used for representation, given a blank slate. ... 

In Japan, virtually all SRlTs are in high population density areas. Consequently, the SCOT process has been quickly adopted there. Seventeen SCOT units are slated to be built in Japan at this time. 

This picture has been broadly validated, and in some respects refined, by other work in which coal was depolymerized by acid-catalyzed transalkylation [as by interaction of coal with phenol and BF3 (23-27)] or by similar, less clearly defined, phenolation reactions (28-31), or selectively degraded by specific oxidants, such as dichromates (32-34), hypohalites (35-38), or peroxy-acids (39-43). But these studies have also revealed some previously unsuspected features. Buffer-controlled oxidation with Na2Cr207 (34) and KMn04 (44) have indicated an occasionally significant presence of straight-chain (up to C21) and branched-chain (up to C8) aliphatic compounds in coal. Oxidation with performic acid (41-43) has yielded substituted compounds that are clearly related to the microbial or chemical degradation products of lignin or flavonoids. And when applied to supposedly very similar coals, virtually identical depolymerization or oxidation procedures often furnished distinctly different product slates (45). 

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