With Huntington’s warning of a “clash of civilizations” following the end of the cold war, “cultural pluralism” has become important for enhancing world peace and supporting development. In this paper, cultural pluralism is viewed as a “knowledge society” problem, where intercultural knowledge is produced, disseminated and used within an ecosystem of mutual understanding and respect. The author...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in the US Department of Commerce makes regional economic impact multipliers available through its Regional Input‐Output Modeling System (RIMS II). These multipliers allow users to estimate the extent to which a one‐time or a sustained change in economic activity will be supplied by industries within a region and, consequently, how this change in economy act...

The aim of this article is to study the bildungsroman traits in King Horn. In this context, bildungsroman characteristics will be applied to the romance. The article is important because its subject is not studied in Turkey and it depicts the novel traits in poetry.

Emerging Grid technologies enable solving scientific problems that involve large datasets and complex analyses. Coordinating distributed Grid resources and computational processes requires adaptable interfaces and tools that provide a modularized and configurable environment for accessing Grid clusters and executing high performance computational tasks. In addition, it is beneficial to make the...

Description: Computational clusters have become the dominant platform for a wide range of scientific disciplines. Cluster management software is available that allows administrators to specify and install a common software stack on all cluster nodes, and enable centralized control and diagnostics of components with minimal effort. While grid deployments have similar management requirements, the...

We present infrared imaging of a sample of 11 hot spots in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies. We have detected infrared counterparts to the hot spots in 3C 20West, 3C 33 South, 3C 111East and 3C 303West all of which have known optical counterparts as well. In addition, we detected the radio jet of 3C 303 in the near infrared. Four other hot spots, those in 3C 20East, 3C 65 (both sides), and ...

Tools are needed to allow domain scientists to effectively harness cyberinfrastructure. The most visibile such tools for the scientist are (i) portals, and (ii) workflow development and execution environments. We briefly summarize some of the foundational work relating to enhancements of GEON cyberinfrastructure tools in terms of semantic data registration, and give references for further reading.

The emphasis of economic development practitioners and researchers is on modern determinants of per capita income such as quality of institutions to support markets, economic policies chosen by governments, human capital components such as education and health, or political factors such as violence and instability. Could this discussion be missing an important, much more long-run dimension to e...

I summarize Xray properties of high redshift radio galaxies, beginning with a brief review of what has been learned from Xray observations of low redshift powerful radio galaxies (in particular, Cygnus A), and then turning to Chandra observations of four high redshift radio galaxies. Hot Xray emitting atmospheres of the type seen in low redshift clusters are not detected in the high redshift so...

This builds on previous work in which we have developed diagramming principles based on theories of structural object perception. We call these geon diagrams. We have previously shown that such diagrams are easy to remember and to analyze. To evaluate our hypothesis that geon diagrams should also be easy to understand we carried out an empirical study to evaluate the learnability of geon diagra...