Belief revision is increasingly being seen as central to a number of fundamental problems in Artificial Intelligence such as nonmonotonic reasoning, reasoning about action, truth maintenance and database update. This paper describes the first implementation of an AGM belief revision system. The system is based on classical firstorder logic, and for any finitely representable belief state, it ef...

We tested the hypothesis that more frequent exposure to multiword phrases results in deeper entrenchment of their representations, by examining the performance of subjects of different religiosity in the recognition of briefly presented liturgical and secular phrases drawn from several frequency classes. Three of the sources were prayer texts that religious Jews are required to recite on a dail...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of the types of relations to career - commitment and entrenchment - of nurses from public and private hospitals. METHODS Field survey with a quantitative approach. A total of 237 nurses participated in the survey through a questionnaire with 43 questions about sociodemographic data, occupation, and relation to career. Descriptive statistics, frequency ana...

The recent increase in the share of zero-leverage firms is most pronounced Software and Services, Hardware Equipment, Pharmaceutical Biotechnical industries. reasons for these industries’ conservative debt policies are not fully disclosed. How companies technological sectors manage to perform well attracting no loosing tax shield benefits a mystery. This study aims determine why high-tech less ...

Many studies show a developmental advantage for transitive sentences with familiar verbs over those with novel verbs. It might be that once familiar verbs become entrenched in particular constructions, they would be more difficult to understand (than would novel verbs) in non-prototypical constructions. We provide support for this hypothesis investigating German children using a forced-choice p...

This Article examines the role that law has played in entrenching incumbents in the communications industry, with a particular focus on broadband services. Earlier this decade, several new "revolutionary" broadband technologies threatened to fundamentally disrupt industry structures. This revolution, however, never arrived. The reason, I argue, is that industry consolidation transformed law int...

Purpose This paper addresses the following questions: Why do some firms employ multiple debt types? What explains heterogeneity? Is choice of source a function corporate governance? Design/methodology/approach The author's is empirical and uses regression analysis. Findings Firms under weak governance have higher propensity to use types dispersed structure. Contrastingly, that are well-managed ...

Much of the evidence on managerial biases in corporate finance focuses CEO and, particular, overconfidence. This singular focus can lead to misattribution as it ignores roles other managers who are responsible for a given outcome. We evaluate influence CFO and C-suite executives compared with CEO. Mirroring widely used Longholder measure overconfidence, we construct Other measures. For financin...