Virtue and Necessity

Making Virtue of Necessity: A Verb Lexicon

We describe the verb lexicon of OpenWordNet-PT, a wordnetlike resource for (mostly Brazilian) Portuguese and a series of experiments that we designed to extend its coverage. These experiments include checking online lists of most common verbs, checking corpora freely available such as the Bosque-UD (the Bosque corpus annotated with Universal Dependencies) and especially checking a dictionary of...

Making a virtue out of a necessity: hurricanes and the resilience of community organization.

M ost of us these days are all too aware of the disruptive impact of hurricanes in human affairs. Yet disturbances ranging from minor local disruptions to massive large-scale catastrophes are part-and-parcel of life in most natural ecosystems (1, 2). These disturbances often provide scientific opportunities, because sometimes one learns the most about how a system functions by watching it recov...

A rural undergraduate campus in England: virtue from opportunity and necessity.

The implementation of new curriculum at Keele University Medical School, UK has made heavy use of general practice as a locus for learning. This has necessitated a substantial expansion in the School's teaching network. The School's hinterland includes a large rural area with a number of excellent general practices and associated community hospitals that, to date, have been unable to teach unde...

Legislation and Regulation in the Core Curriculum: A Virtue or a Necessity?

The EU between Pooling & Sharing and Smart Defence Making a virtue of necessity?

The financial crisis has deeply affected European defence budgets and, as a consequence, the EU’s capability to act as a provider of global security. This paper assesses the extent to which pooling & sharing (P&S) of military capabilities is a viable plan to boost collective capacity-building and offset the heavy budget cut-backs, drawing impetus from the NATO ‘smart defence’ agenda. Although m...