This paper discusses the proper taxonomy of the semantics-pragmatics divide. Debates about taxonomy are not always pointless. In interesting cases taxonomic proposals involve theoretical assumptions about the studied field, which might be judged correct or incorrect. Here I want to contrast an approach to the semantics-pragmatics dichotomy, motivated by a broadly Gricean perspective I take to b...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a method to measure relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units (dmus) which uses multiple inputs and produces multiple outputs. in the conventional dea, crisp inputs and outputs are fundamentally necessary. but the observed values of inputs and outputs in real-world problems are sometimes imprecise. thus, performance measurement often needs to be do...

We construct a minimal rK-degree, continuum many, in fact. We also show that every minimal sequence, that is, a sequence with minimal rK-degree, must have very low descriptional complexity, that every minimal sequence is rK-reducible to a random sequence, and that there is a random sequence with no minimal sequence rK-reducible to it.

Cultural memory of local artists and poets is typically cultivated through festivals devoted to these people usually by way of commemorations on the anniversaries of their deaths, and are held in places in which they lived and worked. These methods, however, are intangible and if not passed to next generations may be lost or forgotten. What is more, they do not help to protect from oblivion the...

this paper introduces a mesh generating algorithm for solving the traffic flow equation as a conservation law equation. the idea behind the new method is to use the characteristic curves and moving non-oscillatory finite volume method. in addition, when characteristic curves intersect, the proposed scheme uses shock speed equation in order to improve computational efficiency. we also compare...

Dear Editor, With great interest we read the article in the recent issue of JBRA by Bartmann et al. (2016) on the use of culture media by IVF clinics in Brazil. Besides the information on current media usage by IVF laboratories, Bartmann et al. (2016) also list the components from the media currently in use. In the media profiles section, the authors provide information about the components in ...

We present in this paper a symbol recognition system for the graphic documents. This one is based on a contextual approach for symbol structural recognition exploiting an Object-Process Methodology. It uses a processing library composed of structural recognition processings and contextual evaluation processings. These processings allow our system to deal with the multi-representation of symbols...

Generic face recognition systems identify a subject by comparing the subject’s image to images in an existing face database[11]. These systems are very useful in forensics for criminal identification[7] and in security for biometric authentication[8], but are constrained by the availability and quality of subject images[1]. In this paper, we propose a novel system, FIDA, that uses descriptive n...

This paper uses descriptive analyses of data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the status of Blacks among faculty and administrators at public higher education institutions in the South, where ‘‘status’’ is defined as representation in employment relative to representation among bachelor’s degree recipients. The descriptive statistics show that, although some pr...