Presidential Decision Directive 63 identified water systems as one of the critical infrastructures to the United States. Following this directive and the passing of The Public Health, Security, and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act there has been increased research effort in both assessing the vulnerability of drinking water systems and proposing protection measures. Drinking water net...

Wikipedia contains millions of articles, collaboratively produced. If an article is controversial, an online “Article for Deletion” (AfD) discussion is held to determine whether the article should be deleted. It is open to any user to participate and make a comment or argue an opinion. Some of these comments and arguments can be counter-arguments, attacks in Dung’s (1995) argumentation terminol...

This paper presents the main elements of Albatross, an agent communication language whose definition is currently under development. The semantics of Albatross, based on the social notion of commitment, allows one to define speech act types in a neat and concise way. I describe the logical relationship between messages and speech acts; give sample definitions of declarative, assertive, commissi...

Sexual assault is a violent act against human dignity that inflicts incalculable trauma upon the person assaulted. For this reason, Directive no. 36 of the Ethical And Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services, 4th ed., which addresses how Catholic health ministries should respond to victims of rape, begins stating that, "Compassionate and understanding care should be given to a per...

The insurance industry needs to be regulated to protect policyholders. This is the main objective of the Solvency II directive – the new insurance regulations for the European Economic Area. In short, it requires insurance companies to act responsibly with the money they have been entrusted with. It is estimated that implementing Solvency II will cost 2-3 billion Euro. It has the potential to c...

This article is based on a pilot study that investigated the Swedish people’s awareness of Public Sector Information (PSI) directive, their understanding difference between PSI-directive and Access Act whether they had prerequisite skills required for use (PSI). Sweden has long tradition readily access to official documents which could have delayed implementation European was enacted in 2003. i...

This research focuses on analyzing illocutionary acts in Finding Nemo film. uses speech theory of pragmatics approach to analyze the meaning uttered applies qualitative method. The functions act by characters are declarative, representative, expressive, directive, and commisive. illocutinary film classified Yule, Word Orders Performative Verbs as indicator.

A movie is one of the beneficial teaching media. Its main function for entertainment, but it a good resource language learning as well. The dialog in provides material skills and structure which can be learned any element language. In this research, writer investigated focused on speech acts. study aims to identify types acts delivered by actor Spider-man movie, was used material, along with th...

This study aims to describe the conversational implicature contained in film entitled Losmen Bu Broto. used descriptive qualitative method which describes situations or phenomena occuring with scientific methods solve real problems. The data this were conversations Broto by Eddie Cahyono and Ifa Isfansyah. analyzed 4 stages, namely identification, reduction, classification, interpretation. resu...

This study is intended to describe, analyze and explain types of speech act produced by Indonesia EFL teachers students in classroom. The subjects this research are the teacher students. data from qualitative was obtained observation that were analyzed three cyclical steps; reduction, display conclusion. reveals frequency occurred representative (66, 7%), directive (23, 2 %), expressive (6, 56 ...