"Ave mundi spes Maria"

SPES 2020 Deliverable D 1 . 2 . B - 6 SPES Metamodel

Number Needed To… $ave?

The 'Number Needed to Treat' (NNT) is a useful measure for estimating the number of patients that would need to receive a therapeutic intervention to avoid one of the adverse events that the treatment is designed to prevent. We explored the possibility of an adaption of NNT to estimate the 'Number Needed to $ave' (NN$) as a new, conceptual systems metric to estimate potential cost-savings to th...

Memento Mundi: Are Virtual Worlds History?

In this paper, I consider whether virtual worlds are history in two senses of the word. The first explores the implications of the life-cycle of virtual worlds, especially of their extinction, for thinking about the history of computerbased technologies, as well as their use. The moment when a virtual world “is history” – when it shuts down – reminds us that every virtual world has a history. H...

Maria Montessori

The figure of Maria Montessori stands out above most of those who were involved in the New Education movement. Rarely have attempts been made to establish a set of educational precepts, which would have such universal validity as hers, and very few others had such a powerful influence on developments in the world as a whole. The all-embracing nature of her ideas is perhaps all the more astonish...

UNED Submission to AVE 2006

Abstr act This paper reports the participation of the Spanish Distance Learning University (UNED) in the First Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) celebrated within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2006 edition. The system works for the Spanish language. It is based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification of the pairs given by the organization. This classifica...