Introduction to the focused issue on music DLs

Introduction to the Special Issue on Music Signal Processing

Introduction to Issue on Malnutrition

In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years are malnourished. The corresponding rate in rich countries is below 3%. Unfortunately, being undernourished as a child is associated with worse economic outcomes as an adult, largely a result of worse adult health. Thus, malnutrition among children creates one of the starkest discrepancies in individual well-being between...

Introduction to the Issue

Chile has usually been considered one of the outstanding countries in the World in terms of its record in reducing poverty. At the same time, income inequality in Chile remains high by international standards; in fact, cross-country comparisons places Chile amongst those countries with the highest dispersion of monetary income (World Bank 1997, 2001; Bravo and Contreras, 2004). This volume orig...

Introduction to the Issue

For this special issue of JSET, we have assembled five important papers based on research at the Concord Consortium. These papers report new developments in strands of ongoing research and development that are among the most promising ways to realize the educational potential of information and communication technologies (ICT). The goal of this Introduction is to place these papers in their lar...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Binding

In many ways visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed visual features such as colours, shapes, sizes, or orientations. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the objects in the visual field. The binding problem in vision refers to ...