Empowering learners and using powerful techniques are prominent elements in the discourse of adult and vocational education. But what constitutes the elements of what might be considered as powerful teaching? This paper begins by examining the way educators talk about power and then proposes four elements that lie at the heart of powerful teaching; understanding how power dynamics intersect wit...

Abstraction is the cornerstone of high-level programming; HTML forms are the principal medium of web interaction. However, most web programming environments do not support abstraction of form components, leading to a lack of compositionality. Using a semantics based on idioms, we show how to support compositional form construction and give a convenient syntax.

The founding master of ‘Dachengquan, Wang Xiang Yhai, who is famous in the North and South, and praised by the martial arts circles of the whole country, has recently moved to Beijing. For the exchange of knowledge and opinions among the practitioners of different martial arts, he has arranged a meeting time every Sunday afternoon from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, at Dayangyibin Alley, where he acts as ...

Wepropose a novel, comonadic approach to dataflow (streambased) computation. This is based on the observation that both general and causal stream functions can be characterized as coKleisli arrows of comonads and on the intuition that comonads in general must be a good means to structure context-dependent computation. In particular, we develop a generic comonadic interpreter of languages for co...

C.G. Galizia, P.-M. Lledo (eds.), Neurosciences From Molecule to Behavior: A University Textbook, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-10769-6_30, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 The nervous system faces a most challenging task – to receive information from the outside world, process it, to change adaptively, and to generate an output – the appropriate behavior of the organism in a complex world. The...

We contend in this presentation that more sustainable and successful Knowledge Management (KM) solutions can be built by using the principles of Knowledge Engineering (KE) to understand knowledge in a more appropriate way. We will basically explore five aspects of practical knowledge relevant for promoting the essential Human Factors (HF) involved in KM tasks: the value and function of knowledg...

This thesis has one main goal: design algorithms that computers can use to produce expressive sounding rhythmic phrases. First, I describe four elements that can characterize musical rhythm: metric structure, tempo variation, deviations, and ametric phrases. The first three elements can be used successfully to model percussive rhythm. Second, I describe two algorithms: one, an automatic transcr...

Some natural properties have causal roles; call these ‘causal properties’. Dispositional essentialists think that some causal properties have their causal roles essentially. For the purposes of this paper, I treat dispositional essentialism (hereafter ‘DE’) as a claim about the properties of (ideal, completed, fundamental) science. If the basic ontology of completed science (hereafter ‘Physics’...