While a significant amount of research has been devoted to textual entailment, automated entailment from conversational scripts has received less attention. To address this limitation, this paper investigates the problem of conversation entailment: automated inference of hypotheses from conversation scripts. We examine two levels of semantic representations: a basic representation based on synt...

The paper is concerned with stabilization of a scalar delay differention equation ẋ(t)− m ∑ k=1 Ak(t)x[hk(t)] = 0, t ≥ 0, x(ξ) = φ(ξ), ξ < 0, by introducing impulses in certain moments of time x(τj) = Bjx(τj − 0), j = 1, 2, . . . . Explicit stability results are presented both for the equation with positive coefficients and for the equation with Ak being of arbitrary sign. Supported by Israel M...

The aim of this research was to study the relationship between explicit memory and hippocampal volume. Seventy healthy adults were administered one implicit memory test and one explicit memory (EM) test and underwent magnetic resonance imaging. The major finding was a negative correlation between the EM test and the right hippocampus/brain volume ratio (t = -0.25, P = 0.03) and the left hippoca...

Successfully competing in the software development market requires controlling the quality of the product. This not only involves identifying what software attributes are valued by the target market, but also measuring and managing those attributes over the course of the software development cycle. This represents an emerging point of view in software engineering, as explicit considerations of ...

The completion mode (individual, collaborative) of the tasks and the conditions under which these modes are performed have been reported to play an important role in language learning. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of employing text editing tasks performed both individually and collaboratively, on the achievement of English grammar under explicit and implicit learning condi...

We acknowledge the fact that situational details can have impact on the trust that a Trustor assigns to some Trustee. Motivated by that, we discuss and formalize functions for determining context-aware trust. A system implementing such functions takes into account the Trustee’s profile realized by what we call quality attributes. Furthermore, the system is aware of some context attributes chara...

Many species of large wildlife have declined drastically worldwide. These reductions often lead to profound shifts in the ecology of entire communities and ecosystems. However, the effects of these large-wildlife declines on other taxa likely hinge upon both underlying abiotic properties of these systems and on the types of secondary anthropogenic changes associated with wildlife loss, making i...

INTRODUCTION This paper argues that particular experiences in the workplace are more important than others and can lead to transformational learning. This may enable practitioners to cross 'vocational thresholds' to new ways of being. AIM A notion of 'vocational thresholds' is developed, aiming to help build an understanding of the most powerful learning experiences of general practitioners (GP...