II HEE& OF Ol&zll HIERARCHIES We h i g h l i g h t the growing body of systems in AI and outs ide where IS-A h ie ra rch ies of procedures co-occur w i th more t r a d i t i o n a l onea of ob jec t s , and we c l a s s i f y the var ious types of s p e c i a l i s a t i o n s . We then g ive formal d e f i n i t i o n s which approximate t h e i r intended meanings and, f i n a l l y , examine...

In most industrial applications, the re-use of belts in power transmissions continues to increase and invade the market especially in automobiles where various types of belts are used. For this purpose, the belt manufacturers are aware of the importance and the valuable advantages of this transmission member and put all their efforts to develop and improve its geometrical and mechanical charact...

Inexpensive devices to measure solar UV irradiance are available to monitor atmospheric ozone, for example, total ozone portable spectroradiometers (TOPS instruments). A procedure to convert these measurements into ozone estimates is examined. For well-characterized filters with 7-nm FWHM bandpasses, the method provides ozone values (from 304- and 310-nm channels) with less than 0.4% error attr...

The subalpine zones on the mountains south of the Tohoku mountains in the Japanese Islands are normally occupied by coniferous forests dominated by Abies mariesii, A. veitchii, Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis and Tsuga diversifolia. But there are many mountains where the subalpine coniferous forest does not exist; the thermometrical subalpine zones on such mountains are replaced by subalpine an...

BACKGROUND The occupational health and safety implications associated with compressed and extended work periods have not been fully explored in the mining sector. AIMS To examine the impact on employee health and safety of changes to the roster system in an Australian coal mine. METHODS Absenteeism and incident frequency rate data were collected over a 33 month period that covered three dif...

We consider the impact of “large” changes in asset prices on intra-market correlations in domestic and international markets. Assuming normally distributed asset returns, we show that the absolute magnitude of the correlation, conditional on a change greater than or equal to a given absolute size of one of the variables, is monotonically increasing in the magnitude of that absolute change. Empi...

According to the strategy of the banking system development until 2015, the Central Bank of Russia is going to implement Basel II Internal-Ratings-Based (IRB) approaches in 2015, while Basel III is planned to be introduced in full starting from 2019. Taking into account the effects of the Basel II regulation during the crisis 2008–2009, in particular, the excessive procyclicality of the capital...

The purpose of this research study was to identify potential signature pedagogies in the field of CTE as well as specific disciplines within CTE, and to explain instructional strategy use by faculty’s demographic characteristics, course delivery modes, and academic discipline. Based on a national survey of CTE faculty teaching at the postsecondary level, this study found faculty which teach in ...

One o f the ma in aims o f [5] is to obta in bounds for asr(A) for var ious classes of noncommuta t i ve rings A; in part icular , they show that: (i) asr(A) ~< 1 + d whenever A is a module finite a lgebra over a commuta t ive Noe ther ian ring R with d im(maxspec R) = d, and (ii) asr(A) = 1 if A is a semi-local ring (see [5], Theorems 3.1 and 2.4], respectively). The a im o f this note is to s...