We report three experiments on reference resolution in Dutch. The results of two off-line experiments and an eye-tracking study suggest that the interpretation of different referential forms*in particular, ‘‘emphatic’’ strong pronouns, weak pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns*cannot be satisfactorily explained in terms of a single feature of the antecedent. The findings show that while the dif...

Modeling epistemic processes in scientific discovery satisfactorily is an indispensable step to automating scientific discovery processes. This paper presents some significant fundamental observations and assumptions on scientific discovery processes and their automation at first. Based on the observations and assumptions, the paper shows why classical mathematical logic, its various classical ...

1 This work is supported in part by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan under Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research No. 09878061 and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 11480079. Abstract. Both a body of human knowledge and a knowledge/information system may be incomplete and inconsistent in many ways. Reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent k...

Background: Currently, volunteer forces are among the main members of the healthcare services, particularly in the treatment sector, and play a key role in healthcare and treatment services. Since efficient human resources are the greatest and most important assets of all organizations, they constantly work to train, retain, and get the best of these valuable assets. The mai...

The temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate R\ of Sc has been measured in scandium dihydrides and dideuterides. These data are satisfactorily accounted for by two contributions to /?,, R]e due to conduction electrons, and R]Q due to quadrupo le interaction fluctuations resulting f rom vacancy diffusion on the hydrogen (deuter ium) sublattice. Describing these fluctuat...

Nerve agents belong to highly toxic organophosphorus compounds misused as chemical warfare agents for military as well as terroristic purposes. Basic mechanism of action of nerve agents is based on acetylcholinesterase (AChE, EC 3.1.1.7) inhibition and subsequent accumulation of neuromediator acetylcholine at the cholinergic synapses, either peripheral or central leading to cholinergic hypersti...

We consider the following scheduling problem. A system is composed of n processors drawn from a pool of N. The processors can become faulty while in operation and faulty processors never recover. A report is issued whenever a fault occurs. This report states only the existence of a fault, but does not indicate its location. Based on this report, the scheduler can reconngure the system and choos...

The therapeutic problem of satisfactorily controlling acute and chronic states of psychomotor excitement is an ever-present one confronting psychiatrists engaged in hospital practice. Admittedly, the application of current methods of treatment, such as systematic pharmacological sedation by means of barbiturates and other drugs or electroconvulsive therapy, will in most cases control excited be...

To the Editor: Thrombosis associated with severe thrombocytopenia is an infrequent, but life-threatening side effect of heparin therapy, which can involve any venous or arterial territory including the cerebral circulation. The treatment of this serious complication has not been satisfactorily resolved. Recently, Becker and Miller reviewed heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thromboembolism a...

Two recent proposals to account for the kinetic co-operativity of hexokinase D ('glucokinase') from rat liver are examined. A model in which the deviations from Michaelis-Menten kinetics result from a random order of binding of the substrates [Pettersson (1986) Biochem. J. 233, 347-350] accounts satisfactorily for the behaviour as a function of glucose concentrations, but it also predicts obser...