We present an algorithm for computing directly the denotation of a modal μcalculus formula χ with backwards modalities over the configuration graph of a pushdown system. Our method gives the first extension of the saturation technique to the full modal μ-calculus with backwards modalities. Finite word automata are used to represent sets of pushdown configurations. Starting from an initial autom...

PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract The study of metaphor has moved from abstraction and poetics into the realms of cognitive science and cultural studies. Rather than being seen as purely figurative and secondary to literal meaning, investigation of metaphors reveals a close relationship to our processes of...

Session types are used to describe and structure interactions between independent processes in distributed systems. Higher-order types are needed in order to properly structure delegation of responsibility between processes. In this paper we show that higher-order web-service contracts can be used to provide a fully-abstract model of recursive higher-order session types. The model is settheoret...

BACKGROUND Previous research using a metaphorical anaesthesia monitor, where dimensions of rectangles proportionally represent 30 patient variable values, showed improved performance in diagnosing adverse events compared with the standard monitor. Steady-state values were represented by a frame around each rectangle. We developed a similar metaphorical anaesthesia interface, but instead of pres...

The modal logic S4 can be used via a Curry-Howard style correspondence to obtain a λcalculus. Modal (boxed) types are intuitively interpreted as ‘closed syntax of the calculus’. This λ-calculus is called modal type theory — this is the basic case of a more general contextual modal type theory, or CMTT. CMTT has never been given a denotational semantics in which modal types are given denotation ...

In this paper the derivation of the second differentiation of a general yield surface implicit time stepping method along with its consistent elastic-plastic modulus is studied. Moreover, the explicit, trapezoidal implicit and fully implicit time stepping schemes are compared in rate-dependant plasticity. It is shown that implementing fully implicit time stepping scheme in rate-dependant plasti...

Since Saussure, the idea that the forms of words are arbitrarily related to their meanings has been widely accepted. Yet, implicit metaphorical mappings may provide opportunities for iconicity throughout the lexicon. We hypothesized that vertical spatial metaphors for emotional valence are manifested in language through space in signed languages and through the spatialized dimension of pitch in...

According to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. This article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...

This report provides a measure of relatively objective evaluation of our ATT-Meta approach to conducting some of the reasoning needed in the understanding of metaphorical utterances. The approach is partially implemented in our ATT-Meta system, although the report does not evaluate the system itself. The approach and system are not described in detail here. The utterances of most interest in th...

This study aimed at identifying the types and meaning of taboo languages which were considered as racial discrimination on film entitled BlacKkKlansman. used textual analysis to analyze subject a text where it could be understood got meaning. The source data this was Batistella stated that there four language namely; epithet, profanity, vulgarity obscenity. To get analyzed using denotation conn...