The objective of this research is to develop a system for language learning based on a ‘‘minimum’’ of pre-wired language-specific functionality, that is compatible with observations of perceptual and language capabilities in the human developmental trajectory. In the proposed system, meaning (in terms of descriptions of events and spatial relations) is extracted from video images based on detec...

An active area of public health policy in the United States is policy meant to promote healthy eating, reduce overconsumption of food, and prevent overweight/obesity. Public discussion of such obesity prevention policies includes intense ethical disagreement. We suggest that some ethical disagreements about obesity prevention policies can be seen as rooted in a common concern with equality or w...

The proposed work deals with highly complex, multi-dimensional systems/processes that cannot be described using low-level details. This is due to the complexity and uncertainty inherent in their nature of functionality, behaviour, interaction, hierarchy and geometry. To keep pace with such complexity and uncertainty, abstract modelling would be useful in predicting the level and nature of the e...

Recently, fractional differential equations have been investigated extensively. The motivation for those works rises from both the development of the theory of fractional calculus itself and the applications of such constructions in various sciences such as physics, chemistry, aerodynamics, and electrodynamics of the complex medium. For examples and details, see 1–5 and the references therein. ...

The text analyzes the extent to which smallpox and measles epidemics provoked transformations in the ways in which workforces were acquired and used in colonial Amazonia from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, with an increase in slave raids on the indigenous population and the attempt to organize a trade route in African slaves to the region. It also explores how indigenous mortali...