This paper considers the underspecification of distributive and collective readings of plural NPs in Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp and Reyle 1993) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Pollard and Sag 1994). We address some shortcomings in previous approaches in the underspecification literature, namely issues related to the assumption that plural NPs are semantically ambiguous betw...

We consider a new approach to the description of the collective behavior of complex systems of mathematical biology based on the evolution equations for observables of such systems. This representation of the kinetic evolution seems, in fact, the direct mathematically fully consistent formulation modeling the collective behavior of biological systems since the traditional notion of the state in...

We exhibit a mathematical framework to represent the neural process at the cortical level. The description of neural dynamics with columnar and functional modularity, named the fibre bundle map (FBM) representation method, is based on both neuroscience and informatics, whereas it leads to the conventional formulas in statistical physics. The possibility of analogy between the phenomena in brain...

Distance on graph is a very useful concept [1]. Both the shortest path distance [2], resistance distance [3] and the mean first-passage distance of a random walker [4-7] can reflect the intrinsic properties of the graph. However, conventional first-passage distance on a graph is based on the basic assumption that the whole network is closed, which means the random walker cannot escape from the ...

study of collective actions is related to some of the most important issues in contemporary sociology such as cooperation, collective decision making, emergence of social norms etc. this paper in four steps presents a framework for studying collective actions. these steps are related to characteristics of collective actions (cooperation and common good), factors effecting the emergence of colle...

Book review of The politics and ethics representation in qualitative research: Addressing moments discomfort by Critical Methodologies Collective (Eds.) Routledge, 2022.