This paper discusses the proper taxonomy of the semantics-pragmatics divide. Debates about taxonomy are not always pointless. In interesting cases taxonomic proposals involve theoretical assumptions about the studied field, which might be judged correct or incorrect. Here I want to contrast an approach to the semantics-pragmatics dichotomy, motivated by a broadly Gricean perspective I take to b...

Informative conservation science is reliant on accurate, high quality and robust data. Floras and Faunas can often provide the baseline information which feeds into a wide variety of conservation decisions made at a national, regional and global level, particularly for species based conservation. Conservation priority-setting algorithms make increasing use of species distribution ranges and the...

BACKGROUND Since the early 1950s, nursing leaders have worked diligently to build the Scientific Discipline of Nursing, integrating Theory, Research and Practice. Recently, the role of theory has again come into question, with some scientists claiming nurses are not using theory to guide their research, with which to improve practice. AIMS The purposes of this descriptive study were to determ...

Generic face recognition systems identify a subject by comparing the subject’s image to images in an existing face database[11]. These systems are very useful in forensics for criminal identification[7] and in security for biometric authentication[8], but are constrained by the availability and quality of subject images[1]. In this paper, we propose a novel system, FIDA, that uses descriptive n...

the calling of the ancient characters in modern arabic poem that inspires the poets needs some more researches to clear the content of the odes. this paper attempts to study the influence of the ancient characters in the poem of the famous contemporary egyptian poet, amal donqol (1941-1983). the poet tries to taking advantage from three techniques: name, role and speech. in his poem and change ...

This paper uses descriptive analyses of data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the status of Blacks among faculty and administrators at public higher education institutions in the South, where ‘‘status’’ is defined as representation in employment relative to representation among bachelor’s degree recipients. The descriptive statistics show that, although some pr...

This paper applies a new multi attribute decision-making (MADM) model to help companies for enterprise resource planning (ERP) selection problem based on Balanced Score Card method. This paper uses three-parameter interval grey numbers which is derived from Grey theory (was proposed by J. Deng). This numbers is used instead of linguistic variables. Beside, a new weighting method that outcomes f...

This paper discusses region-based representations useful to create connected operators. The filtering approach involves three steps: first, a region tree representation of the input image is constructed. Second, the simplification is obtained by pruning the tree and third, and output image is constructed from the pruned tree. The paper focuses in particular on the pruning strategies that can be...