Statistical methods have been widely employed in recent years to grasp many language properties. The application of such techniques have allowed an improvement of several linguistic applications, which encompasses machine translation, automatic summarization and document classification. In the latter, many approaches have emphasized the semantical content of texts, as it is the case of bag-of-w...

Much of the author’s recent experience is attempting to teach Mathematics primarily to undergraduate students following degree programmes in Electronics or Audio Technology. Increasingly, it is found that although such students may be able to perform mechanistic steps such as obtaining a simple derivative, or evaluating a straightforward definite integral, they have little idea as to what these...

This paper presents an empirical study that provides support for the use of enactment in storytelling systems. The overall goal of our research is to facilitate the authoring of stories by children, aged 8 to 10 years. Our findings show that story enactment results in positive effects on the child‘s storytelling, but only through the mediation of imagination during enactment. Only imaginative e...

In 1983 Martin Shapiro worried that the “new jurisprudence of values” being promoted by the new generation of public law scholars in political science would “serve as a cover for slipping back into playing ‘little law professor’ for undergraduates.” Proponents of the “jurisprudence of values” in political science, who engaged in constitutional theorizing about individual rights and the structur...

Designing educational experiences is an imaginative art. As designers, we anticipate and fabricate activities, resources, and conversations that will bring learners’ inquiry to fulfillment, enabling their growth toward desirable skills, intuitions, and understandings. As Whitehead suggests, success in this art requires highly developed tools, and the computer, in its protean flexibility, is the...

A new and imaginative technique for the synthesis of substituted pyranoquinoline via Algar Flyn Oyamanda oxidation cyclization approach has been achieved by hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydroxide catalyzed of quinoline chalcone with intramolecular cyclization to formed pyranoquinoline. In this reaction, two new C-C bonds were formed in a one step with high atom economy. The possible reaction pa...

Revels in madness will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars, especially for those looking for more obscure figures, like the German Romantic psychiatrists J C Reil, J C A Heinroth, and K W Ideler, whom Thiher describes in detail since few medical libraries have their books. In his introduction, Thiher indicates his distance from Foucault's "brilliant, influential ... but misguid...