A dialogue game is presented that enables us to generate coherent elementary conversational sequences at the speech act level. Central to the approach is that the cognitive states of players change as a result of the interpretation of speech acts and that these changes provoke the production of a subsequent speech act. It will be shown that the structure and the coherence of conversational unit...

calendula (calendula officinalis) is relatively cold tolerant plant, but in some years plant seriously injured due to harsh winter. in order to evaluate freezing tolerance of calendula an experiment was carried out at college of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhadin a factorial-completely randomized design with three replications and plants of two sowing dates (summer and autumn) were e...

This special issue reports the findings of a specialist workshop held in the summer of 2000, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This introduction provides background information on HSRH imagery, briefly describes the major ways in which remote sensing data have been used previously for exposure assessment, presents the salient findings of the workshop, and places the papers resulting from the workshop wit...

I have been fortunate to have bad the opportunity to be associated with the TIPSTER Text Program since its inception in 1989. Preliminary discussions among government researchers who were interested in establishing a major, new interagency text handling, processing, and exploitation program began in the Summer of that year and continued in earnest during the months that followed. Most of our fr...

My initial contact with Gavin Wright came when I arrived at Yale University from Pakistan in the early summer of 1971 due to the war between Pakistan and India. At the time, I had been a research fellow at the Institute for Development Economics in Karachi as part of a Yale-Ford Foundation project. Ford made a “safety-first” decision to have all Americans return to their country. Gavin was then...

in friendly remembrance of this fruitful tychastic encounter of the summer of 1969 in Madison, which has contributed to my decision to return to France to found with him CEREMADE (Centre for Research in Mathematics of the Decision) of the University Paris-Dauphine, this contribution which revisits forty years later his pioneering work on impulse management and finance market to which he initiat...