The behavior of marine-terminating ice sheets, such as the West Antarctic ice sheet, is of interest due to the possibility of rapid grounding-line retreat and consequent catastrophic loss of ice. Critical to modeling this behavior is a choice of basal rheology, where the most popular approach is to relate the ice-sheet velocity to a power-law function of basal stress. Recent experiments, howeve...

This paper examines various aspects of the design process and subsequent field test measurements of a large and complex substation grounding system. The study and measurements show that soil layering and lead interference can have a significant impact on the appropriate test location that yields the exact substation ground impedance. Applying a specific percentage rule such as the 61.8% rule fo...

An ontology is a structured semantic model, composed of concepts, relations and instances. Data is a more primitive but concrete assembly of instances described by their attributes. An example of topic ontology is Open Directory of Web documents used in Google organizing documents into topics and subtopics, such as “Science”, “Arts”, etc. However, many ontologies are originally manually develop...

Symbol grounding has originated within the connectionist-symbolic debate so as to gap the bridge between the two approaches. This paper provides an overview about recent results concerning symbol grounding , which is critically reviewed here. A thorough analysis reveals that symbol grounding parallels transcen-dental logic and is best viewed as automated model construction. If this diagnosis is...

mentators might still devise a plausible Schopenhauerian answer to these worries, but until one is given, I remain dubious about the ‘tremendous practical and spiritual value’ of Schopenhauer’s view. My reservations, however, do not mitigate what I see as the tremendous success and the usefulness of this guidebook. Wicks’s text, like Jacquette’s provides an engaging, well-argued and insightful ...

When people have a face-to-face conversation, they don't just spout information blindly-they work to make sure that both participants understand what has been said. This process of ensuring that what has been said is added to the common ground of the conversation is called grounding. This thesis explores recent research into the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and presents an implemen...

Even in homogenous soil and for simple geometrical structure the analytical design of a grounding system is a complex and not very accurate procedure. Using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) it can perform a precise design for complex grounding systems but with important hardware resources and time consumption. This paper proposes a methodology for power system grounding design, directed to ensure ...

Consider some facts: water contains hydrogen, my colleague’s cat is alive, diamond is harder than granite, I prefer oatmeal to brussels sprouts, Beijing has over 14 million inhabitants, interest rates are low. These chemical, biological, geological, psychological, sociological, and economic facts all appear to rest on further facts. Facts involving cities, e.g., the fact that Beijing has over 1...

We propose a novel framework for improving a word segmenter using information acquired from symbol grounding. We generate a term dictionary in three steps: generating a pseudo-stochastically segmented corpus, building a symbol grounding model to enumerate word candidates, and filtering them according to the grounding scores. We applied our method to game records of Japanese chess with commentar...