The main goal with this paper is to motivate and coin a variation of literate programming which we call elucidative programming. Elucidative programming is oriented towards program explanation with the purpose of throwing lights on important and complex program relationships. Since proposed by Knuth in 1984, literate programming has been one of the most viable approaches to a radical improvemen...

This study uses unit-record data on over 50,000 rural children, from the sixteen major states of India, to analyse the determinants of the risks of severe stunting and of being severely underweight. The importance of this study derives from the fact that the prevalence of undernourishment in India is, even relative to other poor countries, shockingly high. The study focuses on the role of mater...

There is still a lot of discussion about exactly what ontologies should represent, but what is generally agreed is that they formalise and relate to some relatively complex areas of knowledge. While ontology environments allow rich descriptions of the relationship between the entities inside the ontology (because this is what an ontology is), they often do not provide the same rich environment ...

Recently, research on quality issues of business process models has begun to investigate the process of process modeling, i.e., the process of creating process models. In particular, it has been recognized that during this process, well-functioning communication between domain experts and system analysts is essential for understandable process models. This paper proposes the LiProMo approach to...

IN THE US A DISMAL TRUTH EXISTS about the citizenry’s lack of understanding of economic fundamentals. Perhaps the best example which illustrates this point is the April 2010 US Senate Hearings into the financial crisis. JPMorgan Chase’s Managing Director and Senior Economist James E. Glassman expressed in a memo his great frustration with the senators’ shocking lack of understanding of free mar...