An overview is presented of the range of variability employed by speakers with regard to the specificity of information in spatial communication, focussing on the significance of the context. This variability is described in terms of two underlying dimensions, one of which reflects a dichotomy of underdeterminacy and redundancy, while the other concerns vagueness and precision. Relevant results...

In this paper we employ a Monte Carlo method to compute the first-order, differential sensitivity indexes of the basic events characterizing the reliability behavior of the containment spray injection system of a nuclear power plant. An exemplification is provided as to how the obtained sensitivity indexes can be used to drive improvements in the system design and operation. q 2005 Elsevier Ltd...

INTRODUCTION Cultural Models (CMs) are a way to organize mental knowledge (Holland and Quinn, 1987; Bennardo and De Munck, 2014) within communities of various sizes. Regarding their internal organization, causality plays a major role in CMs’ structure/s. A widely accepted way to represent causality in a variety of domains is that of using causal models (Sloman, 2009; Rips, 2011). I propose to t...

Mathematics and the aesthetics enjoy a long history of mutual references, which may be explained by the fact that both domains are dealing with relations: structure, content, schemata and (dis)similarity (cf. Wechsler 1978). And beauty? Beauty is the experience of pleasure and amazement from something that is aesthetic. Although “theorems and proofs which are agreed upon to be beautiful are rar...

1 Facultatea de Electronică şi Telecomunicaţii Cluj-Napoca, Departamentul Comunicaţii, Str. G.Baritiu 26-28, e-mail [email protected] 2 Tedelco SRL, Calea Turzii 42, Cluj-Napoca Abstract – This paper presents some experiments regarding applications development on high performance media processors included in Philips Nexperia Family. The PNX1302 dedicated DVB-T kit used has some limitat...

Language plays an important role in society. As a phenomenon of society, language reflects all the sides of human society naturally. Sexism in language has long been a heat topic in sociolinguistics. By looking at the sexism in English and relating it to the relevant linguistic theories, this paper tries to make an analysis of sexism in the use of language through comparison, induction and exem...