A little history shows something of these different approaches. Around 1979 we first discovered our complementary interests in concurrency. Tony at first expressed his ideas through the medium of a programming language [6], and I through a prototypical algebraic theory [8]. The difference became plainer as time went on. Tony was keen to find a single formalism in which specifications of concurr...

Before the introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, there was a patchwork of public, private and voluntary provision (Keen et al 2001). Since the establishment of the NHS, when hospitals were nationalised, most of the organisations providing health care to NHS patients have been state-owned. General practitioners (GPs) are a notable exception to this, being self-employed and o...

Abstract This paper aims to understand the contribution of geographical information in perception linguistic variation. A total 813 mental maps collected among young speakers from different cities Tuscany have been analyzed via an open-access web dialectometric tool (Gabmap). In particular, study seeks verify role geographic distance and place residence respondents modeling perceived The relati...

In the era of Operations Research/Management Science that preceded the DSS, models were used by experts primarily to identify optimum actions for manager clients “to substitute formal analysis for intuitive judgments” (Hutton, 1965). In the 1970’s, after thirty years of clients ignoring this normative approach, the DSS was heralded as a way to use models differently (Keen, 1987) as a tool in de...

This research seeks to study the role of military bases in activating defense diplomacy, with a focus on studying case France African continent, which relied its as tool implement foreign policy. The explains concept diplomacy and relationship an effective strengthening bilateral relations between state's parties. focuses effectiveness for French goals that policy achieve through intervention o...

Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is a task of identifying correct sense of a given word especially when it has multiple meanings. WSD acts as a foundation to many AI applications such as Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation. It has drawn much interest in the last decade and much improved results are being obtained. For WSD we require a knowledge-base, using which we can res...

The nervous and vascular systems are widely distributed in the skeletal system play an important role bone metabolism formation, respectively. Their independent impact on has received keen attention bone-related research over decade. However, mechanism of neurovascular coupling during physiological remodeling regeneration recently been highlighted, considering importance spatial relationships b...