This paper examines the portrayal of disability, gender, and identity in virtual communities where representation is a matter of convenience, style, or whim. A survey was conducted of groups, identifying themselves as disabled, with a focus on gender, in the virtual space, Second Life. Four distinctive categories were analyzed in this study: groups associated with disabilities or being disabled...

Developing a declarative approach to schema integration in the context of heterogeneous database systems is a major goal of this research. We take a rst step toward this goal in this paper, by developing a simple logic called SchemaLog which is syntactically higher-order but has a rst-order semantics. SchemaLog can provide for a logical integration of multiple relational databases in a federati...

With the advent of post-epidemic era, China's tourism industry has increased significantly. So there is a need for large number people who are proficient in travel English. However, training professionals China somewhat backward. This paper analyzes problems existing listening and speaking teaching Tourism English higher vocational colleges, applies schema theory to this application colleges fr...

Schema of reductionism on which traditional cost accounting frame relies is not suitable for measuring product cost in the disequilibrium manufacturing process, where “actual time” fluctuates almost beyond control according to parameters. A new schema that is dependable even under such volatile environment could be built by reverting to cash flow and standard value. As there has not appeared a ...