Although the theory of Conceptual Structures is over 10 years old, basic notions (like canonical graphs) are far from settled and are subject to constant extensions and reformulations. However, most of these are done in an informal way, which doesn’t help in clarifying the issues involved. It is our hope that this paper will provide a first step towards the complete and rigorous account of Conc...

The development of strategy remains a debate for academics and a concern for practitioners. Published research has focused on producing models for strategy development and on studying how strategy is developed in organisations. The Operational Research (OR) literature has highlighted the importance of considering complexity within strategic decision making; but little has been done to link stra...

Although the theory of Conceptual Structures is over 10 years old, basic notions (like canonical graphs) are far from settled and are subject to constant extensions and refor-mulations. However, most of these are done in an informal way, which doesn't help in clarifying the issues involved. It is our hope that this paper will provide a rst step towards the complete and rigorous account of Conce...

Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly developed independent of each other. Here we provide a framework that integrates shifts in community assembly processes with microbial primary succession to better understand mechanisms governing the stochastic/deterministic...

In this paper we propose a model for conceptual access to multilingual lexicon based on shared orthography. Our proposal relies crucially on two facts: That both Chinese and Japanese conventionally use Chinese orthography in their respective writing systems, and that the Chinese orthography is anchored on a system of radical parts which encodes basic concepts. Each orthographic unit, called han...

OBJECTIVE Patients' experiences are often treated as health care quality indicators. Our aim was to identify the range of experiences of health care delivery that matter to patients and to produce a conceptual map to facilitate consideration of why they matter. METHODS Broad-based review and critical interpretive synthesis of research literature on patients' perspectives of health care delive...

The ability to represent concepts and the relationships between them is critical to human cognition. How does the brain code relationships between items that share basic conceptual properties (e.g., dog and wolf) while simultaneously representing associative links between dissimilar items that co-occur in particular contexts (e.g., dog and bone)? To clarify the neural bases of these semantic co...

Research links the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) with a number of social cognitive processes that involve reflecting on oneself and other people. Here, we investigated how mPFC might support the ability to recollect information about oneself and others relating to previous experiences. Participants judged whether they had previously related stimuli conceptually to themselves or someone else, ...

WorldWideWeb links are typically rigid and simple. Activating (or clicking on) a Web link replaces the current page with a fixed destination page. The link’s effect is built into the browser, and generally not customisable by page authors or readers. We discuss a more flexible and expressive form of Web link, which we call programmable link, and propose the LogicWeb language [5] for such links....

This paper addresses the problem of automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge for rapid construction of MT engines in multilingual applications. We describe new techniques for large-scale construction of a Chinese-English verb lexicon and we evaluate the coverage and eeectiveness of the resulting lexicon. Leveraging oo an existing Chinese conceptual database called HowNet and a large, semantic...