This paper undertakes a philosophical investigation of the implications of the traditional Yoruba understanding of education for the contemporary African quest for development. The paper argues that the Yoruba conception of education is marked by the underlying philosophical principles of functionalism, moralism and progressivism. These principles, the paper contends, are of great relevance to ...

A numerical improvement is made to the QUEST algorithm. The signi cance of the expanded and partially-factored forms of the overlap characteristic polynomial for the computation of the maximum overlap (gain function) is examined in detail. The implementation of the partially-factored form of the QUEST characteristic polynomial greatly improves the numerical properties of that polynomial. Analys...

In her paper, "Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu's Alternative to National Narratives," Lisa L.M. Wong examines the ways Yang Mu's poetry acts as an echo and a dissent to the mainstream national narratives in Taiwan between the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this decade, identity discourse has developed from othering Westernism to preserve Chinese cultural-national integrity to espousing a native ...

Résumé : Le concept de wiki a dix ans cette année mais a connu récemment un grand succès grâce à Wikipedia. Cependant, dans le monde des intranets, plusieurs études ont prouvé que l'utilisation des wikis est sujette à discussion et l'acceptation de tels outils de collaboration ouverts et peu structurés n'est pas évidente. Différentes raisons peuvent expliquer ce manque d'acceptation : des raiso...

This paper aims at providing the reader with a comprehensive survey of the human quest for devising software for the translation of natural languages. This human quest resulted in what is called 'machine translation' (MT). It has left its imprint on the evolution of linguistics and computer science in the latter half of the 20 century and has an ever increasing impact on the developments in the...

At a time when mathematical fashion despises generality (seen as gratuitous “generalities”, i.e. vacuities) I affirm the principle force in all my work has been the quest for the “general.” In truth I prefer to accent “unity” rather than “generality.” But for me these are two aspects of one quest. Unity represents the profound aspect, and generality the superficial aspect. (Grothendieck, 87, p....

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the use of a structured interviewing framework improved students' ability to treat self-care patients. DESIGN First-professional year pharmacy students (P1) in their first quarter of Pharmacy Practice Skills Development were taught self-care through a series of 4 modules. In each module students' content knowledge and application were assessed using quizzes and...

Query Structured Model Transformation (QueST) is a framework for defining source-to-target Model Transformations (MTs) in a structured and declarative manner. In this paper, we study how MT-related properties can be analyzed in QueST. Each MT in QueST is equivalent to a logical theory and checking properties for the MT is equivalent to analyzing correctness of such properties (i.e., demonstrati...

Quest-V is a new system currently under development for multicore processors. It comprises a collection of separate kernels operating together as a distributed system on a chip. Each kernel is isolated from others using virtualization techniques, so that faults do not propagate throughout the entire system. This multikernel design supports online fault recovery of compromised or misbehaving ser...

This paper will sketch some results of current researchwithin the projects AutoFOCUS/Quest andAutomotive. AutoFOCUS/Quest is a prototype for a development tool showing how model-based techniques could be used to deal with the complexity of embedded software development. Within Automotive the integration of commercial tools is examined. Therefore a common conceptual metamodel is developed which ...