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Regular languages in NC1
(Elsevier, 1992-06)
We give several characterizations, in terms of formal logic, semigroup theory, and operations on languages, of the regular languages in the circuit complexity class AC0, thus answering a question of Chandra, Fortune, and ...
Flexible view update
(Elsevier, 1992-09-01)
As uninstantiated windows onto a relational database, views are modified only when the intended update can be realized by updates against the underlying database. Such a conventional restriction can, and must, be relaxed ...
Personal investment in Japan and the U.S.A.: A study of worker motivation,
(Elsevier, 1992)
The Inventory of Personal Investment (IPI) was administered to 522 Japanese and 746 American workers to compare their work motivation and self-concepts. Eleven subscales were formed based on the IPI model and were found ...
Cross-linguistic contrasts of verification and answering among children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-03)
This review article examines how children verify a statement (e.g., You are a child. Right or wrong? ) and answer a corresponding question (e.g., Are you a child? Yes or no? ) in English, French, Japanese, and Korean. While ...
Conceptual dependency and its descendants
(Elsevier, 1992)
This paper surveys representation and processing theories arising out of conceptual dependency theory. One of the primary characteristics of conceptual dependency was the notion of a canonical form, built out of a small ...
A formal method for analyzing and integrating the rule-sets of multiple experts
(Elsevier, 1992-01)
Although there has been a movement toward the use of multiple sources of knowledge for expert systems development, there are no formal methods to guide knowledge engineers in integrating these sources. Further approaches ...
Hittite Administration in Syria in the Light of the Texts from Hattuša, Ugarit, and Emar
(Undena, 1992)
A survey of information from recent textual and archaeological finds bearing on the government of Syria within the Hittite empire of the Late Bronze Age.
Accommodating the effects of brand unfamiliarity in the multidimensional scaling of preference data
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-01)
This paper presents a multidimensional scaling (MDS) methodology (vector model) for the spatial analysis of preference data that explicitly models the effects of unfamiliarity on evoked preferences. Our objective is to ...