• There are three main reasons for this policy shift. First, there is evidence that the Chinese economy has been operating below its potential capacity. Second, among the big five economies, China’s monetary policy stance and broader financial condition both tightened the most in the wake of the global financial crisis, likely weighing on domestic growth. Third, a mix of easy monetary policy an...

Reflections on results of a recent study suggest that stages of grief might more accurately be described as states of grief. Resolution of grief coincides with increasing acceptance of loss. Research indicating how grief resolution promotes acceptance may prove clinically useful in easing emotional pain associated with loss.

This paper presents a new memory paradigm that challenges the conventional view of memory. No longer is memory a passive entity that only stores information; rather, it becomes an active participant in computation. The memory system logically performs dynamic transforms on data, easing the workload of the main processor (or processors). This paper presents several applications which validate th...

We present a semantic-based toolkit for the automated selection of Building-Blocks in SAP R/3, aimed at easing and improving Best Practices reusability. The automated selection process exploits Abduction-based Concept Covering in Description Logics to select Building Blocks and provides, if necessary, logic-based information on what remains unavailable.