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Theory and Practice of Constraint Handling Rules

by Thom Frühwirth , 1998
"... Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) are our proposal to allow more flexibility and application-oriented customization of constraint systems. CHR are a declarative language extension especially designed for writing user-defined constraints. CHR are essentially a committed-choice language consisting of mu ..."
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Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) are our proposal to allow more flexibility and application-oriented customization of constraint systems. CHR are a declarative language extension especially designed for writing user-defined constraints. CHR are essentially a committed-choice language consisting

Law and finance

by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny, Bernard Black, Bertyl G. Bylund, Francesco Denozza, Yoshikata Fukui, Zvi Griliches, Oliver Hart, Martin Hellwig, James Hines, Louis Kaplow, Raghu Rajan, Roberta Romano, Rolf Skog, Eddy Wymeersch, Luigi Zingales - Journal of Political Economy , 1998
"... This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal pr ..."
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This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal

The science of emotional intelligence

by Peter Salovey, John D. Mayer , 2005
"... This article presents a framework for emotiolllJl intelligenCl!, a set of skills hypothesized to contribute to the accurate appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself and in others, the effective regulation of emotion in self and others, and the use of feelings to motivate, plan, and achieve in ..."
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in terms? One tradition in Western thought has viewed emotions as disorganized interruptions of mental activity, so potentially disruptive that they must be controlled. Writing in the first century B.C., Publilius Syrus stated, "Rule your feelings, lest your feelings rule you " [1}.

Fading relay channels: Performance limits and space-time signal design

by Rohit U. Nabar, Helmut Bölcskei, Felix W. Kneubühler - IEEE J. SELECT. AREAS COMMUN , 2004
"... Cooperative diversity is a transmission technique where multiple terminals pool their resources to form a virtual antenna array that realizes spatial diversity gain in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we examine the basic building block of cooperative diversity systems, a simple fading relay ch ..."
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of the paper is devoted to (distributed) space-time code design for fading relay channels operating in the AF mode. We show that the corresponding code design criteria consist of the traditional rank and determinant criteria for the case of co-located antennas as well as appropriate power control rules

Optimality Theory

by René Kager, Jason Eisner , 2000
"... Introduction Rene Kager's textbook is one of the first to cover Optimality Theory (OT), a declarative grammar framework that swiftly took over phonology after it was introduced by Prince, Smolensky, and McCarthy in 1993. OT reclaims traditional grammar's ability to express surface genera ..."
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Introduction Rene Kager's textbook is one of the first to cover Optimality Theory (OT), a declarative grammar framework that swiftly took over phonology after it was introduced by Prince, Smolensky, and McCarthy in 1993. OT reclaims traditional grammar's ability to express surface

The causes of corruption: a cross-national study

by Daniel Treisman , 2000
"... Why is corruption — the misuse of public office for private gain — perceived to be more widespread in some countries than others? Different theories associate this with particular historical and cultural traditions, levels of economic development, political institutions, and government policies. Thi ..."
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. This article analyzes several indexes of ‘perceived corruption’ compiled from business risk surveys for the 1980s and 1990s. Six arguments find support. Countries with Protestant traditions, histories of British rule, more developed economies, and (probably) higher imports were less ‘corrupt’. Federal states

Logical Events and ECA Rules

by Mikael Berndtsson, Brian Lings , 1995
"... This paper presents an approach to support event-condition-action rules and logical events in an object-oriented environment. Previous approaches in active object-oriented databases support either traditional event-condition-action rules or logical events. We see the need to integrate these two conc ..."
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This paper presents an approach to support event-condition-action rules and logical events in an object-oriented environment. Previous approaches in active object-oriented databases support either traditional event-condition-action rules or logical events. We see the need to integrate these two

Open information extraction from the web

by Michele Banko, Michael J Cafarella, Stephen Soderland, Matt Broadhead, Oren Etzioni - IN IJCAI , 2007
"... Traditionally, Information Extraction (IE) has focused on satisfying precise, narrow, pre-specified requests from small homogeneous corpora (e.g., extract the location and time of seminars from a set of announcements). Shifting to a new domain requires the user to name the target relations and to ma ..."
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Traditionally, Information Extraction (IE) has focused on satisfying precise, narrow, pre-specified requests from small homogeneous corpora (e.g., extract the location and time of seminars from a set of announcements). Shifting to a new domain requires the user to name the target relations

View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment

by Yue Zhuge , Hector Garcia-Molina, Joachim Hammer, Jennifer Widom - IN PROCEEDINGS OF SIGMOD , 1995
"... A warehouse is a repository of integrated information drawn from remote data sources. Since a warehouse effectively implements materialized views, we must maintain the views as the data sources are updated. This view maintenance problem differs from the traditional one in that the view definition an ..."
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and the base data are now decoupled. We show that this decoupling can result in anomalies if traditional algorithms are applied. Weintroduce a new algorithm, ECA (for "Eager Compensating Algorithm"), that eliminates the anomalies. ECA is based on previous incremental view maintenance algorithms

Folksonomies - cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata

by Adam Mathes , 2004
"... This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata- data about data- allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant informatio ..."
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information. The creation of metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex
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