States We formalize abstract states symbolically, within the Fluent Calculus (FC) (Hölldobler & Schneeberger 1990). Fluent Calculus, much like Situation Calculus, is a logical approach to modelling dynamically changing systems based on firstorder logic. One could indeed argue that Fluent Calculus and Situation Calculus have very much in common. But the latter has the following disadvantage: Kno...

The Fluent Calculus belongs to the established predicate calculus formalisms for reasoning about actions. Its underlying concept of state update axioms provides a solution to the basic representational and inferential Frame Problems in pure first-order logic. Extending a recent research result, we present a Fluent Calculus to reason about domains involving continuous change and where actions oc...

Department of Library and Information Science City University London Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB United Kingdom [email protected] Abstract. The complexities of the many concepts and models around information literacy are considered, and some personal views given as to how they may best be clarified, both theoretically and practically. A slightly adapted idea of the concept of inform...

The prosody of fluent connected speech is much more complicated than concatenating individual sentence intonations into strings. Prosody framework and modeling should base on more understanding of both the production and perception of fluent speech. We analyzed speech corpora of read Mandarin Chinese discourses from a top-down perspective on perceived units and boundaries, and consistently iden...

UNLABELLED In a prior study (Newman & Bernstein Ratner, 2007), we examined the effects of word frequency and phonological neighborhood characteristics on confrontation naming latency, accuracy and fluency in adults who stutter and typically fluent speakers. A small difference in accuracy favoring fluent adults was noted, but no other patterns differentiated fluent speaker responses from those o...

Most aphasiological studies have concluded that stress pattern assignment is unimpaired in both fluent and non-fluent aphasia [4]. However, the existence of specific stress errors in fluent aphasics has been reported in some cases [3]. Concerning the acoustic characteristics of stress production by aphasic patients in several languages, there has generally been found to be a deficit in duration...

Aphasiology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393920 Progressive non-fluent aphasia is not a progressive form of non-fluent (post-stroke) aphasia Karalyn Patterson a; Naida L. Graham a; Matthew A. Lambon Ralph b; John R. Hodges a a MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK b Universit...

Acevedo N, Bame JH, Kuehn LA, Hohenboken WD, Evenson DP, and Saacke RG.“Effects of scrotal insulation on morphology and chromatin characteristics ofejaculated spermatozoa in the bovine” (in preparation) LANGUAGE SKILLSFluent in written and spoken English and SpanishPartially fluent in written and spoken French

OBJECTIVES Howell and Davis's (2011) model that predicts whether stuttering in eight-year old children will persist or recover by teenage was adapted for screening school-aged children for risk of stuttering. Stuttering-severity scores were used to predict whether children belonged to fluent or stuttering groups. Predicted group assignments were compared for models in which severity measures we...

Fluent merging is a reformulation technique for classical planning problems that can be applied automatically or semiautomatically. The reformulation strives to transform a planning task into a representation that allows a planning algorithm to find solutions more efficiently or to find solutions of better quality. This work introduces different approaches for fluent merging and evaluates them ...