Th is study uses a bioarchaeological approach to examine the cultural and biological relationships between two groups who lived in ancient Nubia during the Bronze Age, C-Group and Kerma. While archaeological evidence indicates that these groups show many cultural similarities, refl ections of behaviors such as pottery use and mortuary practices suggest that C-Group and Kerma displayed their eth...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of meaning in life (MIL), psychological well-being (PWB) and quality of life (QOL) in a large sample of school teachers, and to observe to what extent the MIL could act as a moderator variable in the relation between PWB and general QOL. The study included 517 teachers from 57 public and private schools in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Bra...

Economists know how to calculate optimal prices for electricity transmission. These are rarely applied in practice. This paper develops a thirteen node model, based on the transmission system in England and Wales, incorporating losses and transmission constraints. It is solved with optimal prices, and with uniform prices for demand and for generation, but re-dispatching to take account of trans...

A number of attitudinal expressions are identified and analyzed using dependency based syntactic analysis. A claim is made that attitudinal loading of lexical items is dynamic rather than lexical and that attitudinal loading of individual lexical items is acquired through their use in attitudinally loaded structures.

In th is paper I introduce a contrast between homomorphic and non-homomorphic ascript ions of informational content to representations. In the former case there is a mapping from the parts of the representation onto the constituents of the content. In the l a t t e r case, there is not; some of the constituents of the content are set t led bj background factors. I contrast th is d i s t i nc t ...

Auditory icons – or environmental sounds – have the potential to convey information by non-verbal means quickly and accurately. In addition, human listeners are quick to determine many qualities of an auditory object, such as location, distance, size, and motion, from acoustics of the signal. An experiment tests these two coupled assumptions in a controlled laboratory context. Stimuli consisted...

Writing this has been a troubling experience. Returning to a text 30 years on in this way combines intellectual, political and personal refl ections in an unsettling way. These range from a powerful attachment to processes of collective or collaborative intellectual work that Policing the Crisis (PTC; Hall et al., 1978) embodied and enhanced to a rather depressed sense of how many things the bo...

The development of a method for evaluating the performance of learning systems is a prerequisite to their engineering applications. Such a method is also necessary for machine learning researchers for the objective evaluation and comparison 0/ the performance of individual experimental and commercial learning systems. This paper proposes such a method. based on the performance of a learning sys...

To recognize three-dimensional objects bounded by smooth curved surfaces from monocular image contours , viewpoint-dependent image features must be related to object geometry. Contour bitangents and in-ections along with associated parallel tangents points are the projection of surface points that lie on the oc-cluding contour for a ve-parameter family of scaled orthographic projection viewpoin...

In this paper we describe an approach to an adaptive mor phological analysis based on lexicon corpus acquired from Internet We focus on automating categorization words into a morphological paradigm in exive languages It is done by inducing possible word forms using morphological knowledge base and by looking for word forms of possible in ections in a morphological lexicon We developed a prototy...