Supramolecular Catalysis: New Directions and Developments

Relevance Theory – New Directions and Developments

As a post-Gricean pragmatic theory, Relevance Theory (RT) takes as its starting point the question of how hearers bridge the gap between sentence meaning and speaker meaning. That there is such a gap has been a given of linguistic philosophy since Grice’s (1967) Logic and Conversation. But the account that relevance theory offers of how this gap is bridged, although originating as a development...

Developments and Directions

This article first describes the privacy concerns that arise due to data mining, especially for national security applications. Then we discuss privacy-preserving data mining. In particular, we view the privacy problem as a form of inference problem and introduce the notion of privacy constraints. We also describe an approach for privacy constraint processing and discuss its relationship to pri...

Studies in Asymmetric Catalysis: Supramolecular Catalysis and Borane-assisted Hydrogenation

New Directions and Developments in Managed Care Financing

This overview discusses articles published in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, entitled "Managed Care: Advances in Financing." Articles cover the cutting-edge developments in payment methods for managed care organizations and their providers; new approaches to financing managed health care services for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and special sub-populations; and the finan...

Control structure design: New developments and future directions

Control structure design (CSD) deals with the following fundamental question: Given the process flowsheet, where should the controllers be placed, or more specifically, what variables should be measured (sensors) and manipulated (valves) and how should the two sets be interconnected for safe and economic operation? These choices are not obvious for most systems encountered in practice. The prob...