. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 SUMMARY ARTICLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Purpose of This Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 From Generalized Accounts of Science and the University to the Study of Local Practices . . . . . . . ....

We consider the problem of accessing multiple heterogeneous information sources (e.g. web sources , relational DBMSs , flat files, etc.) and constructing a succinct story about an entity (e.g. a person or a place or an event) in a way that meets the user's interests, and deliver the resulting story to the user across heterogeneous, potentially mobile devices. As such, a story must be short (its...

This paper introduces CPE, the CIRCE Plugin for Eclipse. The CPE adds to the open-source development environment Eclipse the ability of writing and analysing software requirements written in natural language. Models of the software described by the requirements can be examined on-line during the requirements writing process. Initial UML models and skeleton Java code can be generated from the re...

Double R Model (Referential and Relational Model) is a computational psycholinguistic model of natural language understanding founded on the linguistic principles of Cognitive Linguistics and implemented using the ACT-R cognitive architecture and modeling environment

How do human observers estimate the location, form, and color of objects? Accurate estimation is challenging because the light arriving at the eyes depends not only on object properties, but also on the spectra and spatial layout of the light sources (Nassau, 1983; Foley et al., 1990). How well the visual system separates illuminant and object properties to achieve a stable representation has t...

This expectation is supported by the results of many observational studies with ISO, SCUBA, and now Spitzer, which provide evidence of strong evolution in number density and luminosity of dusty starbursts at z>1 (Elbaz et al. 2002; Chapman et al. 2003; Marleau et al. 2004; Yan et al. 2004; Le Floch et al. 2004). Therefore, high-z, dusty infrared luminous sources are believed to play a critical ...

In 2004, Rodr'{i}guez-Lallena and '{U}beda-Flores have introduced a class of bivariate copulas which generalizes some known families such as the Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern distributions. In 2006, Dolati and '{U}beda-Flores presented multivariate generalizations of this class. Then in 2011, Kim et al. generalized Rodr'{i}guez-Lallena and '{U}beda-Flores' study to any given copula family. But ther...

Mitochondrial genomes represent an important data source for phylogenetic analyses. Thirty-seven genes encoding for 13 protein subunits, 2 rRNAs and 22 tRNAs are usually present in a bilaterian mitochondrial genome (Boore, 1999; Wolstenholme, 1992). Additionally, a noncoding control region can be identiWed in most cases, probably bearing the transcription initiation sites. DiVerent rates of evo...