A formal model of the structure of information is presented in five axioms which define identity, containment, and joins of infons. Joins are shown to be commutative, associative, provide inverses of infons, and, potentially, have many identity elements, two of which are multiplicative and additive. Those two types of join are distributive. The other identity elements are for operators on entwi...

In its present incarnation, the paper on Information Structure originally written in 1996 appears in the form in which it has been most circulated, a lightly revised version dating from 1998. These notes offer some background and history on the development of the framework discussed there, and a very brief overview of its subsequent development and my current views about the role of the context...

We investigate the long held but empirically untested assumption that diverse networks drive performance by providing access to novel information. We build and validate an analytical model of information diversity, develop theory linking network structure to the distribution of novel information among actors and their performance, and test our theory using a unique ten month panel of email comm...

In addition to deciding what to say, s p e a k ers must decide how t o s a y it. The central premise of studies on the relationship between syntax and discourse function is that a speaker's use of a particular structural option is constrained by s p e-ciic aspects of the context of utterance. Work in discourse has uncovered a variety of speciic discourse functions served by individual syntactic...

background: the present study aimed to determine attitudes and effective factors in the acceptance of smart phones by physicians of the largest university of medical sciences in the south of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed using structural equation modelling (sem) in 2014. study participants included 200 physicians working in the hospitals of shiraz university of medical...

this research intends to investigate the relationship between financial information transparency and investor behavior in tse, in order to provide safety trade and improve performance of the financial market in iran. in last decade transparency of the financial market has been known as one of the most effective variables in determining investor strategy. this study examines perception of transp...