The research landscape examining situation models in discourse has been transformed considerably in the last 20 years. Van Dijk and Kintsch (1983) originally included the concept of a situation model to address issues that were problematic for earlier versions of their theory (Kintsch & van Dijk, 1978). Specifically, van Dijk and Kintsch (1983) argued that situation models were necessary to exp...

Background: Despite a number of benefits, research has found that problematic smartphone use is positively associated with behavioral problems. However, the internal mechanisms underlying that relationship need further investigation. So, the aim of current study was to investigate the mediating role of sleep disturbance in the relationship between problematic smartphone use and aggression. Met...

We argue that atomistic learning—learning that requires training only on a novel item to be learned—is problematic for networks in which every weight is available for change in every learning situation. This is potentially significant because atomistic learning appears to be commonplace in humans and most non-human animals. We briefly review various proposed fixes, concluding that the most prom...

The Semantic Web promises to provide timely, targeted access to user-specified information online. Though standardized services exist for performing this work, specifying these services is too complex for most people. Annotating these services is also problematic. A similar situation exists for traditional information extraction, where ontologies are increasingly used to specify information use...

In this thesis the cell conversion in the free-surface lattice Boltzmann method are investigated, whereby the laws of mass, momentum and energy conservation are especially considered. Di erent modeling approaches from literature are presented and discussed as well as new models introduced. It is then attempted to compare the di erent approaches with each other and validate their overall accurac...

Flight data recorders (FDRs, or black boxes) generate data that is collected on an embedded memory device. A well-known difficulty with these devices is that the embedded memory device runs out of space. To avoid getting into this problematic situation, the software of the FDR is designed to operate in a watchful mode, constantly working to minimize the use of memory space; otherwise a larger F...

What is problematic, however, is that the traditional bus system is laden with negative incentives and problems that will most likely impede Transmilenio from covering the entire city let alone advance beyond its looming third stage. Worse still, these negative incentives translate into low-quality service, bus oversupply, and paradoxically high fares for most riders. This paper analyzes Bogotá...

This paper examines researcher/respondent relationships in a fieldwork study of a hospital ward for the care of patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The nurses' work was the subject of study. Taking the position that verstehen is a precondition of research, and using Mead's argument that one can be an object to oneself, key aspects of the relationship between the researcher...