Abstract In linguistic communication, the speaker’s utterance simultaneously generates several levels of meaning related to Grice’s distinction between what is said and implicated. Yet, there a lively debate about two notions. This study gives general overview three schools: Semantic Minimalism, Radical Contextualism, Moderate Contextualism. After surveying current controversies in these theori...

R ecommender systems have become important tools in ecommerce. They combine one user’s ratings of products or services with ratings from other users to answer queries such as “Would I like X?” with predictions and suggestions. Users thus receive anonymous recommendations from people with similar tastes. While this process seems innocuous, it aggregates user preferences in ways analogous to stat...

are attempting to eliminate." In treating the complex subject of degenerative disorders of the nervous system he says that classification is "difficult if not impossible because no two families ever present indentical symptoms." Unfortunately Dr. Kugelmass's work cannot be recommended as a reliable text-book. It is carelessly and inconsistently written, full of minor and major errors. The autho...

Text compression by inferring a phrase hierarchy from the input is a recent technique that shows promise both as a compression scheme and as a machine learning method that extracts some comprehensible account of the structure of the input text. Its performance as a data compression scheme outstrips other dictionary schemes, and the structures that it learns from sequences have been put to such ...

This article presents the results of a piece research that analyzed views on nature science (NOS) among student teachers enrolled in programs Primary Education at two public universities Spain. Previous studies have reported maintain ‘eclectic’ epistemological perspectives science; this article, we test if such hypothesis holds when teachers’ NOS ideas are ‘anchored’ specific periods and topics...

'How can you possibly award prizes when everybody missed the target?' said Alice. 'Well', said the Queen, ' some missed by more than others, and we have a fine normal distribution of misses, which means we can forget the target.'

Brief eclectic psychotherapy for PTSD (BEPP) is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that combines and integrates elements from psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and directive psychotherapy. Psychoeducation is done jointly with the patient and his or her partner. Exposure, a structured writing task, and memorabilia are used to help patients accessing, feeling and expressing their suppresse...