Conceptual retrieval returns information related to a speci c topic but not restricted to a query term A common approach is to compare the query with all the documents in the database When the number of documents is large the searching time becomes signi cant In this paper we propose a hierarchic architecture which integrates latent semantic indexing LSI and hierarchic agglomerative clustering ...

Computational models of memory are often expressed as hierarchic sequence models, but the hierarchies in these models are typically fairly shallow, reflecting the tendency for memories of superordinate sequence states to become increasingly conflated. This article describes a broad-coverage probabilistic sentence processing model that uses a variant of a left-corner parsing strategy to flatten ...

In tropical regions, abundant in iron-rich geological materials, caves that are genetically and geographically associated with exploitable mineral deposits may develop. These have speleological relevance environmentally legally protected Brazil. Thus, for better planning of exploitation environmental licensing, it is necessary to study the genesis development iron formation seeking preserve the...

One of the great challenges in the processing of materials using Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) is the high forming forces required to produce large shear deformation in the material. Researchers show that the friction forces between the die and the sample constitute a great part of the total forming forces. Recently, ultrasonic vibrations are successfully implemented into the ECAP proce...

Professor Herrick's further criticism, "The concept of physiological gradients and dominance as applied to speech pathology works out in a very suggestive way and merits further study," cannot be given sufficient emphasis. Speech, the complex, integrated psycho-neuromuscular process, cannot be dismissed with a simple explanation in which the peripheral structures of speech "commonly divided int...

Information-handling systems are becoming ever more complex. They may be pure hardware or software systems, or complex systems of hardware and software that act in a real-world environment. Verification is a method to ensure that systems behave in the expected way, which is a necessity for safety-critical applications like automatic railway control. The size of such systems makes manual verific...

Many applications of automated deduction and verification require reasoning in combinations of theories, such as, on the one hand (some fragment of) first-order logic, and on, the other hand a background theory, such as some form of arithmetic. Unfortunately, due to the high expressivity of the full logic, complete reasoning is impossible in general. It is a realistic goal, however, to devise t...

We present a new hierarchic kernel based modeling technique for modeling evenly distributed multidimensional datasets that does not rely on input space sparsification. The presented method reorganizes the typical single-layer kernel based model in a hierarchical structure, such that the weights of a kernel model over each dimension are modeled over the adjacent dimension. We show that the impos...

The aim of this study was to develop an optimal sustainable forest plantation based on goal programming and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods. This study was carried out in Guilan province, north of Iran. First of all, the ecological capability of the study area for plantation establishment/maintenance was evaluated based on multi-factor method and specific ecological Makhdoum Model by ...