This study aimed to get to know the perceptions of undergraduate students from the University of São Paulo College of Nursing about physical exercise as an instrument to maintain health and well being. Data were collected through the application of a questionnaire in class, involving 122 undergraduate students. In this group, 52.23% believed that physical exercise should only be recommended to ...

The terms “information age” and “information society” are used by many writers as shorthand to refer to the confluence of an incalculable number of contemporary social and structural transformations. A sizeable chunk of these events have been described and analyzed by Manuel Castells in The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Castells is professor of city and regional planning and p...

Learning preferences is a useful task in application fields such as collaborative filtering, information retrieval, adaptive assistants or analysis of sensory data provided by panels. SVMs, using preference judgments, can induce ranking functions that map objects into real numbers, in such a way that more preferable objects achieve higher values. In this paper we present a new algorithm to buil...

The meaning of a text can be generated by the composition of the meanings of all its units. The sentence meaning is not enough in itself and cannot be taken separately from the text context, it is a function of the text where this sentence appears. We propose below an approach which gives an account for this semantic phenomena. It is based on the minimal units of meaning following Harris’s gram...

From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.B.J.); RAND, Santa Monica, CA (S.S.); Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (D.L.); and the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (A.C.). Address reprint requests to D...

Incorporated groupware can gather people of various skills around the globe to share their knowledge while working on a project. Internet, intranet, and other groupware technologies, such as Lotus-Notes, video conferencing and e-mail can be used to distribute and share individual experience and innovation throughout the organization. Therefore, Organizations especially those adapting to rapidly...

1 Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, CB3 0HA Cambridge, UK 2 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via G.B. Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy 3 Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ 4 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrohpysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02198, USA 5 Dipartimento di Fisica ‘Galileo Galilei’ e INFN Sez. di Padova, via...

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it is well-known that “casual conditional” in islamic logics has been used with two meanings: “specific conditional” and “general conditional”. however, viewing the works of the muslim logicians, we find out that these two meanings of “casual conditional” have been interpreted in two various ways: each of the general and specific conditionals is sometimes interpreted as the condition of “non-ne...

We describe several systems for identifying short samples of Arabic dialects, which were prepared for the shared task of the 2016 DSL Workshop (Malmasi et al., 2016). Our best system, an SVM using character tri-gram features, achieved an accuracy on the test data for the task of 0.4279, compared to a baseline of 0.20 for chance guesses or 0.2279 if we had always chosen the same most frequent cl...