We propose an implementation of the eight Optimality Principles from the framework of Conceptual Blending, as presented by Fauconnier and Turner (1998). Conceptual Blending explains several cognitive phenomena in the light of the integration of knowledge from different mental spaces onto a single mental space: the Blend. The Optimality Principles express general pressures that compete in the ge...

A native microorganism, Penicillium citrinum was isolated from the top soil of a manganese mine. Based on its efficiency for manganese solubilisation, it was utilized for the leaching of a low-grade manganese ore. The effects of various parameters such as pulp density, particle size, sucrose concentration, inoculum size and bioleaching duration on manganese ore were studied. The optimised condi...

While the number and size of Semantic Web knowledge bases increases, their maintenance and quality assurance are still difficult. In this article, we present ORE, a tool for repairing and enriching OWL ontologies. State-ofthe-art methods in ontology debugging and supervised machine learning form the basis of ORE and are adapted or extended so as to work well in practice. ORE supports the detect...

Leonardo Testi1 and Anneila I. Sargent California Institute of Te hnology, MS 105-24, Pasadena, CA 91125 Abstra t. We review some of the basi guidelines used to plan, exe ute and analyse multield observations at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory millimeter wave array. As a working example we dis uss our observations of the inner 50.5 50.5 of the Serpens loud ore. The results of our observation...

The relative proportions of metal residing in ore in the lithosphere, in use in products providing services, and in waste deposits measure our progress from exclusive use of virgin ore toward full dependence on sustained use of recycled metal. In the U.S. at present, the copper contents of these three repositories are roughly equivalent, but metal in service continues to increase. Providing tod...

Automatic blending between surfaces surrounding skeletal elements has been cited as one of the chief advantages of using implicit surface modeling techniques. However, achieving control so that blending occurs only when it is desirable is a di cult problem. In this paper we look at using a graph to specify the blending between objects. We propose a new method which produces a C(0) continuous fu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether non-linear blending technique for arterial-phase dual-energy abdominal CT angiography (CTA) could improve image quality compared to the linear blending technique and conventional 120 kVp imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 118 patients who had accepted dual-energy abdominal CTA in the arterial phase. They were assigned to Sn140/80 kVp protocol (pr...

Blending attacks are a general class of traffic-based attacks, exemplified by the (n − 1)-attack. Adding memory or pools to mixes mitigates against such attacks, however there are few known quantitative results concerning the effect of pools on blending attacks. In this paper we give a precise analysis of the number of rounds required to perform a blending attack for the pool mix, timed pool mi...

BACKGROUND Olive oils (OOs) show high chemical variability due to several factors of genetic, environmental and anthropic types. Genetic and environmental factors are responsible for natural compositions and polymorphic diversification resulting in different varietal patterns and phenotypes. Anthropic factors, however, are at the origin of different blends' preparation leading to normative, lab...