Un-accurate modeling of power system may cause to under or over-design the insulation, which in turn, leads to increase in the investment and/or maintenance cost of the network protection against lightning overvoltages. The grounding system is an effective parameter on the magnitude of the lightning overvoltages and insulation coordination of high voltage transmission lines (TLs). This paper pr...

We describe the Degrees of Grounding model, which tracks the extent to which material has reached mutual belief in a dialogue, and conduct experiments in which the model is used to manage grounding behavior in spoken dialogues with a virtual human. We show that the model produces improvements in virtual human performance as measured by post-session questionnaires.

Abstract In this essay, I propose a functionalist theory of grounding (functionalist-grounding). Specifically, argue that is second-order phenomenon realized by relations play the noncausal explanatoriness role. also show functionalist-grounding can deal with powerful challenge. Appeals to explanatory unificationism have been made success explanations does not depend on existence relations. Aga...

In this paper, I present in detail two models of grounding, Clark and Schaefer’s contribution model, and the grounding acts model from my previous work. Description of each model is accompanied with discussion of it’s limitations, particularly with respect to use within a collaborative system. Also presented is an approach taking factors such as media costs into account.

Although skin burns at the site of grounding pad are a known risk of surgery, their exact incidence is unknown. We first report the case of a patient who presented a deep gluteal burn at the site of the grounding pad after an abdominal aortic aneurism repair, the etiology and the challenging treatment required to overcome this complication.

Though the study of grounding is still in the early stages, Kit Fine, in ”The Pure Logic of Ground”, has made a seminal attempt at formalization. Formalization of this sort is supposed to bring clarity and precision to our theorizing, as it has to the study of other metaphysically important phenomena, like modality and vagueness. Unfortunately, as I will argue, Fine ties the formal treatment of...

Spoken dialogue systems have until recently upheld the simplifying assumption that the conversation between the user and the system occurs in a strict turn-by-turn fashion. In order to have more human-like, uent conversations with computers, a new generation of spoken dialogue systems has arisen that is capable of processing the user’s speech in an incremental way. As the user is speaking, the ...