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CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 . 1 PERCEPTUAL COMPUTING

CWW is a methodology in which the objects of computation are words and propositions drawn from a natural language. [It is] inspired by the remarkable human capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any computations. CWW may have an important bearing on how humans . . . make perception-based rational decisions in an environment of imprecision,...

Chapter – 1 Introduction and Preliminaries

Chapter 1 – Introduction and objectives

1.1. General Introduction Plesiosaurs are a group of secondarily aquatic diapsid reptiles belonging to the clade Sauropterygia (Carroll, 1988). Diapsids (subclass Diapsida) are a monophyletic group supported by both morphological and molecular data (Lee, 2001) including lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds, and represent a major sub-group of the amniote vertebrates, i.e. vertebrate organisms w...

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview

BACKGROUND The field of nanostructure science and technology is a broad and interdisciplinary area of worldwide research and development activity that has been growing explosively in the past few years. While an understanding of the range and nature of functionalities that can be accessed through nanostructuring is just beginning to unfold, its tremendous potential for revolutionizing the ways ...