The partial phase behavior of systems composed of lecithin/isopropyl myristate (IPM)/water or ketorolac tromethamine (KT) solutions (2.5, 5, 10 and 50% w/w) at various lecithin/IPM weight ratios (km) have been investigated by the construction of phase diagrams. A commercially available soybean lecithin (namely, Epikuron 200, phosphatidylcholine purity greater than 95%) was used in this study. P...

The task of determining which LEGO bricks to use to construct a volume is known as the LEGO Construction Problem. This is a challenging problem because even small volumes can be constructed in a tremendously large number of ways. As a result, an exhaustive search is impractical, and more nuanced search strategies must be employed to find a good, though not necessarily optimal, solution. This pa...

A method is described to produce global phase diagrams for single-component molecular crystals with separable internal and external modes. The phase diagrams present the equilibrium crystalline phase as a function of the coefficients of a general intermolecular potential based on rotational symmetry-adapted basis functions. It is assumed that phase transitions are driven by orientational orderi...

Résumé : Dans cet article nous nous interrogeons sur la manière d’outiller la phase de conceptualisation lors de la construction d’une ontologie à partir de textes. La mise en perspective des résultats obtenus à partir de techniques issues de la terminologie et de la fouille de textes est réalisée selon trois plans (discours, linguistique et conceptuel). Cette étude permet de mieux appréhender ...

The purpose of this paper is to build a picture of knowledge construction models in online education. The study describes the knowledge construction process of a group of vocational teacher education students in an online learning environment. In the online studies, a model of progressive inquiry was applied. The students worked in small groups throughout the learning process. The phenomenon in...

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.

German case syncretism is often assumed to be the accidental by-product of historical development. This paper contradicts this claim and argues that the evolution of German case is driven by the need to optimize the cognitive effort and memory required for processing and interpretation. This hypothesis is supported by a novel kind of computational experiments that reconstruct and compare attest...