What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes

What Do You Mean, Coordination?∗

Coordination models and languages represent a new approach to design and development of concurrent systems. The interest in coordination has intensified in the last few years, as evidenced by the increasing number of conferences, tracks, and papers devoted to this topic, and by the recent upsurge of research activity in the theoretical computer science community in this field. The field is rela...

What do you mean, "epigenetic"?

Interest in the field of epigenetics has increased rapidly over the last decade, with the term becoming more identifiable in biomedical research, scientific fields outside of the molecular sciences, such as ecology and physiology, and even mainstream culture. It has become increasingly clear, however, that different investigators ascribe different definitions to the term. Some employ epigenetic...

Palliative care; what do you really mean?

What do you mean by "satisfactory"?

INTRODUCTION One of the difficulties in designing assessment for medical trainees has been defining what is meant by "satisfactory". Whilst a list of "unsatisfactory" and "outstanding" characteristics can be identified with very little difficulty, it is the middle ground that holds the challenge. This is especially true in the non-technical areas of medical practice, which have been brought int...

What do you mean by 'collaborative learning'?

This book arises from a series of workshops on collaborative learning, that gathered together 20 scholars from the disciplines of psychology, education and computer science. The series was part of a research program entitled 'Learning in Humans and Machines' (LHM), launched by Peter Reimann and Hans Spada, and funded by the European Science Foundation. This program aimed to develop a multidisci...