This paper evaluates attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. Economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individuals surveyed, more than half of the sample has previ...

This paper describes our efforts for the development of a Proposition Bank for Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language. Our primary goal is the labeling of syntactic nodes in the existing Urdu dependency Treebank with specific argument labels. In essence, it involves annotation of predicate argument structures of both simple and complex predicates in the Treebank corpus. In this paper, we describe the ove...

The concept of component, even if an old one, has not yet given all its expressive power as far as building complex systems is concerned. New proposals for components have appeared at design or code level. Although they are demonstrative, we think they are still not sufficient enough. It is fundamental for us that the concept of sofware component appears as soon as possible in the life cycle, i...

Proposition algebra is based on Hoare’s conditional connective, which is a ternary connective comparable to if-then-else and used in the setting of propositional logic. Conditional statements are provided with a simple semantics that is based on evaluation trees and that characterizes so-called free valuation congruence: two conditional statements are free valuation congruent if, and only if, t...

poor communities to generate the same tax revenues for a given local rate (Coons, Proposition 13 gutted California's proPClune and Sugarman, 1970). In an aterty tax system in 1978. Most people think tempt to comply with the coures ruling that the tax-revolt initiative was caused by the state legislature adopted a new school' excessivegovernment spending and rising aid formula that added funds t...