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TOWARD A THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1999
Grounded in the cybernetic concept of negative explanation, the theory of constraints examines how human systems are kept from solving problems. To identify constraints, therapists must know where to look for them and what to look for. The theory proposes that contraints exist among the levels of a biopsychosocial system, which include biology, person,
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The Theory of Grammar Constraints

2006
By introducing the Regular Membership Constraint, Gilles Pesant pioneered the idea of basing constraints on formal languages. The paper presented here is highly motivated by this work, taking the obvious next step, namely to investigate constraints based on grammars higher up in the Chomsky hierarchy.
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Constraints in Covariant Field Theories

Physical Review, 1951
In this paper we have considered certain problems which arise when one attempts to cast a covariant field theory into a canonical form. Because of the invariance properties of the theory, certain identities exist between the canonical field variables.
Anderson, James L., Bergmann, Peter G.
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Constraint Logic Programming over unions of Constraint theories

1996
Summary: In this paper, we present an extension of the Jaffar-Lassez constraint logic programming scheme that operates with unions of constraint theories with different signatures and decides the satisfiability of mixed constraints by appropriately combining the constraint solvers of the component theories.
Cesare Tinelli, Mehdi T. Harandi
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The Partitive Constraint in Optimality Theory

Journal of Semantics, 2000
This paper discusses a case of syntax/semantics interaction of a characteristically optimality-theoretic kind. Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven. The crucial semantic condition that plays a role in case selection is quantitative determinacy, which replaces the ...
Arto Anttila, Vivienne Fong
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Evolutionary constraints and the neutral theory

Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1984
The neutral theory of molecular evolution postulates that nucleotide substitutions inherently take place in DNA as a result of point mutations followed by random genetic drift. In the absence of selective constraints, the substitution rate reaches the maximum value set by the mutation rate.
T H, Jukes, M, Kimura
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Theory of constraints

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1998
A new approach to the management of production and operations was developed by Goldratt in the late 1970s. Now known as the theory of constraints (TOC), it provides a coherent management theory for running an organisation. It has two major components: a philosophy which underpins the working principle of on‐going improvement, and a generic approach for
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The Theory of Constraints

2012
In the late 1970s, a new approach to the management of operations was developed by Goldratt. Now known as the theory of constraints (TOC), it provides a coherent management theory for running an organisation. It has two major components: a philosophy which underpins the working principle of on-going improvement and a generic approach for investigating,
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Receptor Theory and Biological Constraints on Value

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2007
Abstract:  Modern economic theories of value derive from expected utility theory. Behavioral evidence points strongly toward departures from linear value weighting, which has given rise to alternative formulations that include prospect theory and rank‐dependent utility theory.
Berns, G., Capra, C.M., Noussair, C.N.
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