The proposed reduction in and recent negotiations, discussions and lobbying concerning the R&D budget of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) at the Ministry of Industry and Trade highlight the importance of approaching the question of government policy in support of R&D not only in a more systematic and analytic fashion than has been the case up to now in Israel but also through adoption of...

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) produces new products and often faces a dilemma when determining the level of interchangeability in its product design. The interchangeability is considered as a degree to which the product can be disassembled without force, and thus an increasing degree of interchangeability would decrease the OEM’s production cost, but it would also lower a remanufactu...

This paper out l ines an approach toward computa t i ona l l y invest igat ing the processes involved in reasoning about the knowledge states of other cogn i t i ve agents. The approach is Fregean and is compared with the work of McCarthy and Creary. We describe how the formalism represents the knowing o f intensional i nd iv idua ls , c o r e f e r e n t i a l i t y , i t e r ated propos i t i...

We characterize the set of all n-ary quasigroups of order 4: every n-ary quasigroup of order 4 is permutably reducible or semilinear. Permutable reducibility means that an n-ary quasigroup can be represented as a composition of k-ary and (n− k +1)-ary quasigroups for some k from 2 to n−1, where the order of arguments in the representation can differ from the original order. The set of semilinea...

OF DISSERTATION Nicole Denise Dobransky

There are two basic mysteries about natura l language. The speed and ease with which i t is acquired by a ch i ld and the speed and ease with which i t is processed. S i m i l a r l y to language acqu is i t i on , language processing faces a strong inpu t -da ta -de f i c iency problem. When we speak we a l t e r a great l o t in the idea l ized phonological and phonetic representat ions. We d...

Eva Boergens 1,* ID , Karina Nielsen 2 ID , Ole Baltazar Andersen 2, Denise Dettmering 1 ID and Florian Seitz 1 ID 1 Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich, Germany; [email protected] (D.D.); [email protected] (F.S.) 2 Division of Geodesy, DTU Space, National Space Institute, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmar...

Edgar Vicente Torres-González 1, Raul Lugo-Leyte 1, Helen Denise Lugo-Méndez 1, Martin Salazar-Pereyra 2,* and Alejandro Torres-Aldaco 1 1 Departamento de Ingeniería de Procesos e Hidráulica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana—Iztapalapa, Av. San Rafael Atlixco No. 186, Col. Vicentina, Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México 09340, Mexico; [email protected] (E.V.T.-G.); [email protected] (R.L.-L.); hdl...

Classical studies on enactment have highlighted the beneficial effects of gestures performed in the encoding phase on memory for words and sentences, for both adults and children. In the present investigation, we focused on the role of enactment for learning from scientific texts among primary-school children. We assumed that enactment would favor the construction of a mental model of the text,...