Debate regarding definitions and philosophies of therapeutic recreation (TR) is ongoing. Those who favour the recreational therapy approach view leisure as a modality to improved health, whereas those ascribe prioritize experiences over addressing symptoms illness or disability. However, there paucity research exploring professionals’ perspectives on meaning TR. To address this gap, we conducte...

I. The Problem of the Neural Code This tech brief concerns the problem of the neural code and a new approach to the neural coding problem. Briefly stated, the problem of the neural code is this: What is the organization of the system or systems of information coding in the brain? The problem was first raised in 1956 by John von Neumann and to this day has remained one of the outstanding unsolve...

WW XX YY ZZ YY is kleeper than WW. YY is kleeper than ZZ. Is YY kleeper than XX? Is "kleeper" ambiguous? Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a psychological model and computational simulation intended to mimic and help explain the way that humans learn and represent the meaning of words, text, and other knowledge. In this chapter I briefly describe the underlying theoretical and computational mac...

This short paper accompanies the keynote talk at RTSOPS 2017. It discusses the different meanings attached to probabilistic Worst-Case Execution Time (pWCET) distributions derived from Static Probabilistic Timing Analysis (SPTA) and MeasurementBased Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA). These different meanings relate to aleatoric variability (randomness in the systems and its environment) and...

Recent literature in science education suggests that, to transform girls’ participation, learning, and identities within school science, we must think about ways to engage girls in different kinds of educational activities that promote broader meanings of science and scientist. This study was designed to examine more deeply this call for a changed science curriculum and its implications for gir...

The existence of sound-symbolism (or a non-arbitrary link between form and meaning) is well-attested. However, sound-symbolism has mostly been investigated with nonwords in forced choice tasks, neither of which are representative of natural language. This study uses ideophones, which are naturally occurring sound-symbolic words that depict sensory information, to investigate how sensitive Dutch...

This paper proposes two decision trees for determining the meanings of the prepositional uses of over by using the contextual information. It first examines the meanings of the prepositional uses of over and then aims at identifying the contexts for interpreting the meanings. Some contexts are complementary features, and that makes the decision trees simple. The trees have been tested on a corp...

The compositionality idea is the idea that semantic interpretation proceeds in two steps. Simple expressions are interpreted by means of lexical rules, which assign meanings to them directly. Complex expressions are interpreted by means of compositional rules, which assign meanings to them indirectly, as a function of the meanings of their parts. For any simple expression , the associated lexi...

This paper proposes two decision trees for determining the meanings of the prepositional uses of over by using the contextual information. It first examines the meanings of the prepositional uses of over and then aims at identifying the contexts for interpreting the meanings. Some contexts are complementary features, and that makes the decision trees simple. The trees have been tested on a corp...