To foster c olla b ora tive lea rning a system sh ou ld su pport perspec tiva l view ing a nd neg otia tion in a na tu ra l w a y. W eb G u id e su pports tea m s of stu d ents c ond u c ting resea rc h on th e web ; it lets th em sh a re b ookm a rks, qu eries, notes a nd su m m a ries th a t a rise in th e resea rc h . Th e sh a red inform a tion spa c e is viewed th rou g h va riou s perspec...

abstract water is a vital resource for every biological and human phenomena. nowadays, water management and conservation has a great importance not only in developing countries, but also in developed countries. in traditional economics, water is not taken into consideration as a factor of production in the national accounts. nevertheless in reality, water is the primary input of many goods and ...

We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we construct two indexes reflectin...

The previously proposed s e m a n l i c h e a d d r i w ' . n Ken eration methods run into problems if none of the daughter eonst i tuents in the syntact.o-semantic rule schemata of a g rammar fits the definition of a semantic head given in [Shieber et al., 1990]. This is the case for the semantic analysis rnles of certain constraintbased semant ic representations, e.g. Underspecified Discourse...

Harmonisation of accounting standards has been an important process in response to globalisation of capital markets. “The globalisation of capital markets and the developments in telecommunications and the internet bring new significance to the need for comparable and transparent financial reporting and require new thinking by companies, investors, creditors and auditors about what financial in...

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Work in A r t i f i c i a l I n t e l l i g e n c e on knowledge based technology has produced a v a r i e t y of p r a c t i ca l app l i ca t i ons whi le data management systems are used in almost every commercial en te rp r i se of any s i g n i f i c a n t s i z e . Despite the advances in both data base and knowledge base technologies there is s t i l l a large gap between the c a p a b i...