This paper examines the problems faced by Law Enforcement in searching large quantities of electronic evidence. It examines the use of ontologies as the basis for new forensic software filters and provides a proof of concept tool based on an ontological design. It demonstrates that efficient searching is produced through the use of such a design and points to further work that might be carried ...

In this paper, we develop a knowledge representation model for the innovative intelligent retrieval of legal cases, which provides effective legal case management. Examples are taken from the domain of accident compensation. A new set of sub-elements for legal case representation (sub-issues, pro-claimant, pro-respondent and contextual features) has been developed to extend the traditional repr...

We present a formula for the extremes of the null controllable region of a general LTI discrete-time system with bounded inputs. For an nth order system with only real poles (not necessarily distinct), the formula is simpli5ed to an elementary matrix function, which in turn shows that the set of the extremes coincides with a set of trajectories of the time-reversed system under bang–bang contro...

This paper examines the interplay of social and temporal distance on consumers’ responses to others’ recommendations. Drawing on research on psychological distance and the “fit” literature, the authors hypothesize that others’ recommendation is more persuasive when the construal levels associated with both social distance and temporal distance are congruent. Specifically, the authors first demo...

The result contributed by this note is that controllability–observability of an original continuous-time LTI dynamic system can always be simultaneously preserved in expanded systems within the Inclusion Principle when using block structured complementary matrices. This new structure offers more degrees of freedom for the selection of specific complementary matrices than well known used cases, ...

The paper focuses on the way how the grammatical category of number of nouns will be annotated in the forthcoming version of Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT 3.0), concentrating on the peculiarities beyond the regular opposition of singular and plural. A new semantic feature closely related to the category of number (so-called pair/group meaning) was introduced. Nouns such as ruce ‘hands’ or klí...

This paper investigates the robustness of a soft constrained LTI MPC for set-point tracking, using an `1regularised cost. The MPC using this type of cost (informally dubbed `asso-MPC) is suitable, for instance, for redundantlyactuated systems. This is because of its ability to select a set of preferred actuators, leaving the other ones at rest for most of the time. The proposed approach aims to...

This paper deals with the question of the existence of weak and strong common quadratic Lyapunov functions (CQLFs) for stable discrete-time linear timeinvariant (LTI) systems. The main result of the paper provides a simple characterisation of pairs of such systems for which a weak CQLF of a given form exists but for which no strong CQLF exists. An application of this result to second order disc...

The concept of quaternary prevention (P4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage through the proper exercise. Family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people's humanity. In the fourth Congress of Family and Community Medicine, held in Montevideo ...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies emphasize the importance of context in implementation. Successful implementation across the health care system depends on conditions and requirements that are often presented to health professionals through text-based materials and might present contradictory expectations to the work of health professionals. In this study, we operationalize institutional context as t...