Despite their ambiguous historical record, conservation/development interventions the world over have remained a popular environmental governance tool. One of the latest global ‘trends’ are interventions to establish so-called ‘Transfrontier Conservation Areas’ (TFCAs): large contiguous spaces that are principally aimed at conserving biological diversity across national boundaries. In line with...

BACKGROUND Adequate use of different learning strategies is one of the most important prerequisites of academic success. The actual use of learning strategies is the result of an interaction between individual and situational variables. Against this background we conducted a longitudinal study with first year medical students to investigate whether individuals show different patterns in their u...

Recent research has revealed that learning behavior is associated with academic achievement at the college level, but the impact of specific learning strategies on academic success as well as gender differences therein are still not clear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in the incremental contribution of learning strategies over general cognitive ability ...

This paper discusses how to construct a legal ontology using a general ontology that has already been developed. In the construction process, we must solve two hard issues. The one is to localize legal contexts in a general ontology in order to extract a legal ontology with a general ontology. The other is to identify bugs in a constructed legal ontology and re ne them. Here is presented a meth...

Terrorism is an act whose nature and outcome is violence and fear. Regardless of the different forms of the realization of this act in the past, it has taken new forms in the contemporary era due to the advancement of sciences and technologies. To face this phenomenon, then, it is necessary to foresee and apply appropriate and favorable measures. As a victim of internal and external terrorism, ...

The move toward on-line publishing of legal documents in the public domain has made extra information available by way of mark-up for electronic publishing. Legal Concepts that were once implicit in documents are now explicit and further inferences can now be drawn through computation however the quality and extent of this information varies. This paper discusses the application of web techniqu...

This paper discusses how to construct a legal ontology from a general ontology that has already been developed. In the construction process, we must solve two hard issues. The one is to localize legal contexts in a general ontology in order to match a legal ontology with a general ontology. The other is to identify bugs in constructed legal ontology and re ne them. Here is presented a new metho...

Although several studies have linked Life History Strategy (LHS) variation with variation in the Five Factor Model personality dimensions, no published research has explored the relationship of LHS to the HEXACO personality dimensions. The theoretically expected relationship of the HEXACO Emotionality factor to LHS is unclear. The results of two studies (N = 641) demonstrated that LHS indicator...

This paper discusses how to construct a legal ontology using a general ontology that has already been developed. In the construction process, we must solve two hard issues. The one is to localize legal contexts in a general ontology in order to extract a legal ontology with a general ontology. The other is to identify bugs in a constructed legal ontology and re ne them. Here is presented a meth...