This paper reports work in progress on an experimental text editor called CREF, the Cross Referenced Editing Facility. CREF deals with chunks of text, called segments, which may have associated features such as keywords or various kinds of links to…

This paper arises from current proposals to reform the Coroner Service in England and Wales. In it, we explore the extent to which inquests offer the opportunity to increase our understanding of the situation of older people who are “found…

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This paper descries D-SCRIPT, a language for representing knowledge in artificial intelligence programs. D-SCRIPT contains a powerful formalism for descriptions, which permits the representation of statements that are problematical for other systems. Particular attention is paid to problems of opaque…

The construction of expert problem-solving systems requires the development of techniques for using modular representations of knowledge without encountering combinatorial explosions in the solution effort. This report describes an approach to dealing with this problem based on making some knowledge…

La sociedad del conocimiento actual demanda que el ser humano mantenga una actitud de continuo aprendizaje. Pues la complejidad del aprendizaje
universitario comprende una red de elementos organizados con base en los principios: dialógico, recursivo y hologramático. El presente artículo

This paper introduces a model of spatial cognition to describe the states of partial knowledge that people have about the spatial structure of a large-scale environment. Spatial knowledge has several different representations, each of which captures one aspect of the…

Este artículo se deriva de una investigación que culminó en 2007, y en
que se indagó sobre los conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas (CAP) referentes
a la leishmaniasis visceral americana (LVA) que tienen pobladores y médicos
rurales de cuatro áreas endémicas…

Este trabajo es el resultado de la sistematización del proceso dirigido a la producción colectiva de textos, desarrollado con los miembros de los pueblos barí y yukpa, en el marco de un proyecto de la División Regional de Asuntos Indígenas…

Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay…