This paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in socialecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We call them “propositions” because, although they are useful in helping us understand and compare differe...

In this paper the classical planning problem is formalized as a Petri Net. The authors review the Graphplan notions of mutex relation and maintenance actions based on the Petri Net flow. They also classify pairs of conflicting actions in terms of four different control structures, which are used to build the Plan Net. In addition the authors present the order relation of propositions, i.e., pai...

Writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. In this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...

Ronald C. Jantz is Digital Library Architect at Rutgers University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]. edu. © 2012 Ronald C. Jantz, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC The objective of this paper is two-fold: to propose a theoretical framework and model for studying organizational innovation in research libraries and to set forth propositions t...

In the philosophical tradition, propositions have a double nature. On one hand, they are units of sense of a fundamental logical type. They are senses of sentences provided with truth conditions. Each proposition is true in a circumstance when it represents a fact which exists in that circumstance. So any analysis of the logical form of propositions requires a theory of truth. On the other hand...