This article provides a comprehensive conceptual analysis of information. It begins with folk notion that information is tripartite phenomenon: something carried by signals about for some use. suggests has three main aspects: structural, referential, and normative. I analyze the individually necessary jointly sufficient conditions defining these aspects consider formal theories relating to each...

We present a computational algorithm for solving the recently developed finite-deformation continuum dislocation dynamics theory of mesoscale plastic deformation single crystals (Starkey et al., 2020). This CDD is based on vector density representation dislocations governed by curl-type transport-reaction equations subjected to divergence-free constraint appropriate density. These evolution are...

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Querying databases with incomplete or inconsistent content remains a broad and difficult problem. In this work, we study how to improve aggregations computed on databases with referential errors in the context of database integration, where each source database has different tables, columns with similar content across multiple databases, but different referential integrity constraints. Thus, a ...

the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in four common english textbooks, namely touch stone, american file, top notch, and total english series used at iranian english language institutes and to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these coursebooks. in order to compare cultural exophoric references used in these coursebooks, the researche...

(2) Socrates is a man are semantic, and not merely syntactic, constituents of (1); someone who does not understand that name or that predicate does not understand (1). In this respect (1) differs from the metalinguistic “Socrates is a man” is a necessary truth in English. (b) Intuitively, also, (1) results from the application of a sentential operator “necessarily” to (2) at least somewhat as S...

It is widely known that closure operators on finite sets can be represented by sets of implications (also known as inclusion dependencies) as well as by formal contexts. In this article, we consider these two representation types, as well as generalizations of them: extended implication sets and context families. We discuss the mutual succinctness of these four representations and the tractabil...

In this chapter, three semantics-based schema conversion methods are presented: 1) CPI converts an XML schema to a relational schema while preserving semantic constraints of the original XML schema, 2) NeT derives a nested structured XML schema from a flat relational schema by repeatedly applying the nest operator so that the resulting XML schema becomes hierarchical, and 3) CoT takes a relatio...

Formulaic language and sequence as the core characteristic of real-life language and native-like fluency, has been a subject of inquiry in recent decades. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of two extensive reading text types, i.e., adaptive and authentic, on Iranian EFL learners’ development of lexical bundles. To this aim, 20 intermediate EFL learners were chosen to pa...