(Draft: Please do not cite or quote without permission. Comments welcome.) 1. On the one hand, I think it is fair to say that philosophers recognize a special problem or question about how we are to " interpret " scientific theories only in light of their concerns about whether we are really entitled to believe what those theories say when they are interpreted in what we see as the most natural...

Hugo Estrada E., Alicia Martínez R., Oscar Pastor L., Javier Ortiz H., Octavio A. Ríos T. 1 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Valencia, España, Email: {hestrada,opastor, alimartin}@dsic.upv.es 2 Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales Morelos, México, Email: {hestrada, ortiz}@ceni...

This paper applies a Game-based Learning Evaluation Model (GEM) to assess whether the early warning – early action serious game “Ready!” is an effective component to add to existing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training curricula, facilitated by NGO staff and applied at the community level. We developed a paper-based survey with 17 five-level Likert items and 15 open questions addressing the d...

This work concerns i n t e g r a t i o n between syn tax and semant ics . S y n t a c t i c and semant ic a c t i v i t i e s r e l y on separa te bod ies o f knowledges. I n t e g r a t i o n i s ob ta i ned by e x p l o i t i n g the isomorphism between grammat ica l r e l a t i o n s (among immediate c o n s t i t u ~ e r r s ) and conceptua l r e l a t i o n s , thanks t o a l i m i t e d s...

Since most commonly used sample preparation methods for ice dielectric studies involve ra ther heavy mechanical straining, t h e e f f ec t s of straining were studied and compared with more strain-free sample preparation methods.

The p a p e r d e s c r i b e s a p a t t e r n r e c o g n i t i o n sys tem t h a t has been s i m u l a t e d u s i n g a computer w i t h a n o n l i n e camera i n p u t . The sys tem i s a d a p t i v e , u s i n g a t r a i n i n g s e t o f p i c t u r e s t o g e t h e r w i t h t h e names o r c l a s s e s t o wh i ch each p i c t u r e b e l o n g s . The sys tem uses an edge f o l ...

It is argued that the current focus on object technology is detrimental to progress in embedded systems. The core of the problem is that object orientation is fine for analysis but does not answer the design needs. Solutions for shortcomings are sought within the OO dogma, making things worse. This paper will outline a different approach and will discuss benefits of that approach relative to ob...

We investigate the zeros of a family of hypergeometric polynomials Mn(x;β, c) = (β)n 2F1(−n,−x;β; 1 − 1c ), n ∈ N, known as Meixner polynomials, that are orthogonal on (0,∞) with respect to a discrete measure for β > 0 and 0 < c < 1. When β = −N , N ∈ N and c = p p−1 , the polynomials Kn(x; p,N) = (−N)n 2F1(−n,−x;−N ; 1 p ), n = 0, 1, . . . N , 0 < p < 1 are referred to as Krawtchouk polynomial...

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Let T (n, p) denote the class of functions of the form f (z) = z p − ∑ ∞ k=n ak+pz k+p (ak+p ≥ 0; p, n ∈ N ) which are analytic and p-valent in the open unit disc U = {z : |z| < 1}. For functions f j (z) ( j = 1, 2) belonging to T (n, p), generalizations of the modified-Hadamard product of f1(z) and f2(z) represented by ( f1∆ f2) (r, s; z) (r, s ∈ R) are introduced. In this paper, we obtain sev...