this essay studies theory of lex mercatoria which is based on the assumption of existence of a third legal system along with the national and international legal systems regulating international commercial relations. for this purpose, the essay discusses the backgrounds of creation and emergence of the theory, its narrow and broad meaning, elements of which and the extent that it has been recog...

The theory of isostasy supposes that, in regions which have not been disturbed recently, each vertical column of the earth's crust with a certain minimum radius and extending to a depth of about IOO km has approximately the same mass. To find the deviation from this approximation in a given region, the density must be assumed as a function of depth. Such assumptions used at present for calculat...

Representing the underlying meaning of text has been a long-standing topic of interest in computational linguistics. Recently there has been a renewed interest in computational modeling of meaning for various tasks such as semantic parsing (Zelle and Mooney, 1996; Berant and Liang, 2014). Opendomain and broad-coverage semantic representation (Banarescu et al., 2013; Bos, 2008; Allen et al., 200...