Recentl~ there has been a areat deal of interest aithin the .\rtificial intelligence communits in des eloping a qualiiause ph~sies (e.g.. qualitatis e process theor~. ens isioning. naive ph~sics) that predicts and explains the behasior of mechanisms in qualitatise terms. The goals for the qualitatise physics are (1) to be far simpler than classical ph~sicsand ~et retain all the important distin...

This paper deals principally with alteration to the physical form of forage diets and the effect on rumen fermentation. When a forage crop is cut and conserved there are possibilities of (a) changing the physical and chemical characteristics of the forage before it is given and (b) of combining the forage with other food components. T o produce a ruminant ration of high nutrient potential both ...

A potential drawback with the use of mannitol as a bulking agent is its existence as mannitol hemihydrate (MHH; C₆H₁₄O₆·0.5H₂O) in the lyophile. Once formed during freeze-drying, MHH dehydration may require secondary drying under aggressive conditions which can be detrimental to the stability of thermolabile components. If MHH is retained in the lyophile, the water released by MHH dehydration d...

As with many complex design problems, physical database design is difficult, ill-structured, and highly human intensive. In order to effectively construct support systems or improve the practice of database design, it is important to understand how human designers reason about the task. We report an empirical study of physical database design problem solving. Thirteen subjects each solved two p...

The framework is proposed where matter can be seen as related to energy in a way structure relates to process and information relates to computation. In this scheme matter corresponds to structure which corresponds to information. Energy corresponds to ability to carry out a process which corresponds to computation. The relationship between each two complementary parts of each dichotomous pair ...