M. Rosalind Pierson: January 10, 1941–October 20, 2005

Andrew McLennan January 20 , 2005 Economics 8103 Microeconomic

Analysis 65 January 2005

Clark and Chalmers (1998) defend the view that the human mind need not be in the human head. To speak more carefully, they defend the view that the material vehicles 1 of cognition can be spread out across brain, body and certain aspects of the physical environment itself. Critics of this view (which has become known as the ‘extended mind hypothesis’, henceforth EM) have pointed to the supposed...

January 10, 2008

Systemic reform followed by standards based reform in K-12 education begins with state content standards. Based at least in part on policy research in education, the pair of reforms make the assumption that what is taught is a strong predictor of what students will learn. Thus, being clear about what it is that we want students to know and be able to do and expressing that message in content st...

10 January 2012

In the early 1960s, Anthony Edwards and Luca Cavalli-Sforza made an effort to apply R.A. Fisher’s maximum likelihood (ML) method to estimate genealogical trees of human populations using gene frequency data. They used the Yule branching process to describe the probabilities of the trees and branching times and the Brownian motion process to model the drift of gene frequencies (after a suitable ...

WSML Deliverable D 20 . 1 v 0 . 2 OWL − WSML Working Draft – January 6 , 2005

This deliverable presents restricted variants of the OWL Lite, DL and Full species of the OWL ontology language, called OWL Lite−, OWL DL− and OWL Full−, respectively. OWL Lite− and OWL DL− are strict subsets of OWL Lite and OWL DL. They are limited in such a way that there exists a translation from both languages directly into dunction-free logic programs, i.e., Datalog. Thus, any OWL Lite− or...