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This paper analyses the so-called 'Draft Treaty of Amsterdam' of 19 June 1997, focusing on the changes concerning the institutions and the decision-making procedures. It is argued that the sum of envisaged changes will considerably alter the institutional balance between the three main actors, i.e. the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. The latter, in particular, will have an ...

Both a synopsis and extension of Gesture and Thought (the book), the present essay explores how gestures and language work together in a dialectic. In this analysis the ‘purpose’ of gesture is to fuel and propel thought and speech. A case study illustrates the dependence of verbal thought on context and how it functions. Problems for computational modeling, the presence and absence of gesture ‘...

Synopsis: Although there are a number of technologies related to school algebra, it is only the personal technology of the graphics calculator that seems likely to be available widely enough to influence curriculum design and implementation on a large scale. The algebra curriculum of the past is overburdened with symbolic manipulation at the expense of understanding for most students. But algeb...

This dissertation describes a new graphical notation called Mobicharts for modelling mobile computing systems. The modelling issues related to different characteristics of mobile environment are discussed and the problems considered for research are precisely stated. Our contributions to the domains of both graphical as well as formal modelling techniques for mobile computing systems are clearl...

THIS latest edition of Tredgold and Soddy's Textbook of Mental Deficiency in many ways rcpresents a healthy departure from static descriptions of pathological states alone to a more dynamic approach to the understanding of problems of social and psychological adjustment in mentally defective individuals. This owes much to the lessons learned from Child Psychiatry, and indeed the chapters on nor...