Language is widely assumed to be a well designed tool for reliably communicating propositional information between people. This suggests that its users should be sensitive to failures of communication, such as utterances that are blatantly incoherent with respect to an ongoing conversation. We present experimental work suggesting that, in fact, people are surprisingly tolerant of conversational...

1 Aim of This research is a Strategic analysis of seaports using multiple-criteria decision-making methods. At first, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of Iranian seaports has been extracted from literature. Then, with respect to the importance concluded from LIKRET questionnaire distributed between experts (taking the views of the experts and specialist), five high importanc...

Forced antipsychotic medication procedures are generally perceived to be clinically necessary options, albelt violations of individuals' bodies and autonomy. Previous studies have explored forcibly medicated patients' attitudes concerning these procedures, but as patients were interviewed while still in the hospital, this may have affected their responses. We interviewed consecutively forcibly ...

FTA proposed to add selections for ‘‘type of fire’’ to the non-rail fire event detail screens to provide better nationallevel information for vehicle fire prevention and mitigation. Comment. FTA received two comments to the proposed revision. Commenters indicated that ‘‘type of fire’’ was often difficult to ascertain and could only be identified after a lengthy investigation. FTA Response. The ...

The CSIRO-led eXtended New Technology Demonstrator (xNTD) will test key SKA technologies whilst delivering exciting science outcomes in the fields of HI surveys, gaseous evolution, galactic magnetism, pulsars and transients. The xNTD and its sister telescope, the MIT-led Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD), build on technologies developed by the Sydney University SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) and...