Criminological theorists and criminal justice policy makers place a great deal of importance on the idea of desistance. in general terms, criminal desistance refers to a cessation of offending activity among those who have offended in the past. Some significant challenges await those who would estimate the relative size of the desisting population or attempt to identify factors that predict mem...

In Situations and Atti tudes (Barwise and Perry 1983) Barwise and Perry decide that meaning should be taken to be a triadic relation not a dyadic one. While there may be good reasons for deciding to procede on this basis, one of the reasons they give is definitely a bad one, and this is the principal subject of this note. On pages 222-23 they remark that if meaning is to be a dyadic relation it...

Evaluating software is a complex decision aiding activity which requires the recognition of the problem situation in which the evaluation is requested, the establishment of a set of problem formulations which represent the client’s “problems” and, for a specific problem formulation, the construction of an evaluation model which indicates how such an evaluation will be performed. In this paper t...

Situations serving as partial worlds as well as events in natural language semantics are constructed from a type-theoretic interpretation of firstorder formulae and (after a type reduction) temporal formulae. Limitations of the Russell-Wiener-Kamp derivation of time from events are discussed and overcome to give a more widely applicable account of temporal granularity. Finite situations are for...

In order to understand the nature of Web information search processes it is necessary to identify the interplay of factors at the micro-level, that is, to understand how search process related factors such as the actions performed by the searcher on the system are influenced by various factors that might explain it, for example, those related to his work task, search task, knowledge about the w...

During the last few decades the personality domain has witnessed several major controversies, including the person±situation debate and the debates on accurate re ̄ection versus systematic distortion, on nomothetic versus idiographic approaches, on nature±nurture, etc. Within these controversies several sharp contrasts and pendulum movements have stood out. In particular, regarding the person±si...

The T-pattern algorithm of Magnusson’s was used to find emotional process patterns EPP in facial expressions shown by subjects in different social situations (Common and psychotherapeutic situations). The facial behaviour of the participants was coded using EMFACS (Emotional Facial Coding System). Purpose of the study of common situations was to find indicators for the influence of gender and m...

This paper describes experiences with the limitations imposed by OWL on the representation of common constructs in two distinct application domains: qualitative reasoning models in ecology, and ontology based legal reasoning. We will show that OWL is not expressive enough to unambiguously represent situations using restrictions. Secondly, we show that representing the idea that instances in dif...

The notion of that information is relative to a context is important in many different ways. The idea that the context is small — that is, not necessarily a consistent and complete possible world — plays a role not only in situation theory, but it is also an enlightening perspective from which to view other areas, such as modal logics, relevant logics, categorial grammar and much more. In this ...