The theory of conceptual structures serves as a common basis for natural language processing and medical concept representation. We present a PROLOG-based formalization of dependency grammar that can accommodate conceptual structures in its dependency rules. First results indicate that this formalization provides an operational basis for the implementation of medical language parsers and for th...

We call into question game theory, as a account of how people play two player zero-sum games. Evidence from a modified version of the game Paper, Rock, Scissors suggests that people do not play randomly, and not according to certain play probabilities. We investigated the relationship between game theory predictions and a cognitive model of game playing based on the detection of sequential depe...

We present a theory of normalization for multimedia databases. We introduce new types of functional dependencies between different types of media data. Thus, the definition of functional dependency is based upon a specific technology used to detect semantic relationships between complex data types, which need to be compared through approximate match paradigms . Index terms __ Multimedia Databas...

in this paper, monopolistic behavior of opec, as the largest and most stable international organization between jan. 1973 to sep. 2008, is studied. for this purpose, fundamentals of game theory is used as a basis to come-up with a criterion to make a distinction between two market structures based on mutual dependency of institutions. then using such criterion, a regressive model based on expla...

Neodevelopmentalism emerged in Brazil and Argentina the aftermath of demoralization Washington Consensus. Although its intellectual proponents place it within long tradition Latin American developmentalism, an important theoretical origin neodevelopmentalism—dependency theory—has so far been ignored. The term appeared for first time 1978 as expletive heated controversy between Ruy Mauro Marini ...

A recent project to produce a much belated English translation of Lucien Tesnière’s Éléments de syntaxe structurale has provided the opportunity for an in depth look at Tesnière’s theory of syntax. This contribution examines a few aspects of Tesnière’s work through the lens of modern syntactic theory. Tesnière’s understandings of constituents and phrases, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, gapping,...

Mixtures of chiral and achiral building blocks supramolecules exhibit interesting cooperative properties, as indicated by the nonlinear relationship between properties mole fraction blocks. However, composition dependence recognition capability spherical mixed micelles is poorly understood. This study hypothesized that phenomenon could be described regular solution theory reported to able descr...