The ratification of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a departure point for several considerations on their presence in environmental matrices. In this paper, the Italian situation is presented with emphasis on the most toxic compounds--chemicals with dioxin-like toxic action, and the activity in the area of interest of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Biotic, as wel...

For the past several years we have been working with models of benzene distribution and metabolism, principally in the rat, but more recently in humans. Our biologically related objectives have been primarily to assist our laboratory-based colleagues in their quest for understanding of the mechanisms by which benzene exerts its toxic action. A secondary goal has been to develop or adapt models ...

In this thesis, a logic for reasoning about cooperative ability, actions and preferences is developed. It is an extention of a cooperation logic with actions, developed by Sauro et al., which is a modular modal logic consisting of an environment module for reasoning about actions and their effects and an agents module for reasoning about the cooperative ability of agents to perform actions. In ...

in this paper, we nd the relationships between module contractibility of abanach algebra and its ideals. we also prove that module contractibility ofa banach algebra is equivalent to module contractibility of its module uniti-zation. finally, we show that when a maximal group homomorphic image ofan inverse semigroup s with the set of idempotents e is nite, the moduleprojective tensor product ...

let r be a ring, m a right r-module and (s,≤) a strictly ordered monoid. in this paper we will show that if (s,≤) is a strictly ordered monoid satisfying the condition that 0 ≤ s for all s ∈ s, then the module [[ms,≤]] of generalized power series is a uniserial right [[rs,≤]] ]]-module if and only if m is a simple right r-module and s is a chain monoid.

Let $A$ be a Banach algebra and $E$ be a Banach $A$-bimodule then $S = A oplus E$, the $l^1$-direct sum of $A$ and $E$ becomes a module extension Banach algebra when equipped with the algebras product $(a,x).(a^prime,x^prime)= (aa^prime, a.x^prime+ x.a^prime)$. In this paper, we investigate $triangle$-amenability for these Banach algebras and we show that for discrete inverse semigroup $S$ with...

the concepts of free modules, projective modules, injective modules and the likeform an important area in module theory. the notion of free fuzzy modules was introducedby muganda as an extension of free modules in the fuzzy context. zahedi and ameriintroduced the concept of projective and injective l-modules. in this paper we give analternate definition for projective l-modules. we prove that e...

 Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $M$ be a finitely generated unital $R$-module. In this paper, first we give necessary and sufficient conditions that a finitely generated module to be a multiplication module. Moreover, we investigate some conditions which imply that the module $M$ is the direct sum of some cyclic modules and free modules. Then some properties of Fitting ideals o...

We describe a coding scheme for machine translation of spoken taskoriented dialogue. The coding scheme covers two levels of speaker intention − domain independent speech acts and domain dependent domain actions. Our database contains over 14,000 tagged sentences in English, Italian, and German. We argue that domain actions, and not speech acts, are the relevant discourse unit for improving tran...

Let Γ denote a distance-regular graph with classical parameters (D, b, α, β) and b 6= 1, α = b − 1. The condition on α implies that Γ is formally self-dual. For b = q we use the adjacency matrix and dual adjacency matrix to obtain an action of the q-tetrahedron algebra ⊠q on the standard module of Γ. We describe four algebra homomorphisms into ⊠q from the quantum affine algebra Uq(ŝl2); using t...