This paper uses tools from argumentation and artificial intelligence to build a system to analyse reasoning from a motive to an action and reasoning from circumstantial evidence of actions to a motive. The tools include argument mapping, argumentation schemes, inference to the best explanation and a hybrid method of combining argument and explanation. Several examples of use of relevant motive ...

This research views dispositional inference as a process whereby perceivers integrate multiple inferences about a target person's motives and traits. The findings suggest that although perceived motives may stimulate extra attributional processing (S. Fein, 1996), the content of the inferred motive is important as well. Perceivers learned about situational forces implying that a target person h...

of Thesis vi Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Literature Review 6 Introduction 6 Uses and Gratifications Perspective 6 Early History of Media Gratification 7 Development of Uses and Gratifications Theory 9 Extensions into Uses and Gratifications 10 Summary of Uses and Gratifications Theory 12 Television Popularity and the Audience 12 A Historical Review of the Television Genre 13 Realit...

SecDFyajC of Escherichia coli is required for efficient export of proteins in vivo. However, the functional role of SecDFyajC in protein translocation is unclear. We evaluated the postulated function of SecDFyajC in the maintenance of the proton motive force. As previously reported, inner membrane vesicles (IMVs) lacking SecDFyajC are defective in the generation of a stable proton motive force ...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is widely used to assess the investment criteria where cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is not economically feasible to apply. CBA is generally used where there is a commercial motive whereas CEA is used where service motive is prioritized. Thus, it is mainly applicable to evaluate social projects where the beneficiaries are scattered in any area or the society at l...

Zusammenfassung Es existieren zahlreiche Motive und Barrieren zur Nutzung von Social Software in Unternehmen und Organisationen. Ein mögliches Anwendungsszenario ist das interorganisationale Krisenmanagement von Behörden und Organisationen mit Sicherheitsaufgaben, Unternehmen und Bürgern bei Großschadenslagen. In diesem Beitrag werden Motive und Barrieren der Nutzung von Social Software in Unte...

Membrane vesicles of Clostridium thermoautotrophicum containing carbon monoxide dehydrogenase generated a proton motive force when exposed to CO. This proton motive force, with a value of -140 mV, consisted of only an electrical potential at pH 7.5 and above and of an electrical potential and pH gradient at a lower pH. The proton motive force drove the uptake of L-alanine by the vesicles to a c...

I present a tactic, BasicElim, for Type Theory based proof systems to apply elimination rules in a reenement setting. Applicable rules are parametric in their conclusion, expressing the leverage hypotheses ~ x yield on any ~ x we choose. represents the motive for an elimination: BasicElim's job is to construct a suited to the goal at hand. If these ~ x inhabit an instance of 's domain, I adopt ...