The purpose of this paper is to describe how some theorems about constructions in categories can be seen as a way of doing generic programming. No prior knowledge of category theory is required to understand the paper.
We explore the…

La crisis del pensar atraviesa casi todas las categorías fundantes
de la modernidad. El paradigma, como sistema de signifi caciones, ya parece
no servir para dar respuestas y Lanz (2005) se pregunta si será posible pensar
sin esta categoría. Este…

This paper describes an approach to supporting work in the office. Using and extending ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we describe office work as a problem solving activity. A knowledge embedding language called Omega is used to…

Current methods for bipedal walking control include playback of recorded joint motion and the derivation of dynamic equations to map desired forces at the body to the required torques at the joints. Both methods require a significant amount of up-front…

Objetivou-se com este estudo a caracterizacao pedologica de ambientes agricolas, visando a fixacao de bases para uso e manejo sustentado dos solos e transferencia de conhecimentos para areas similares. A area em estudo localiza-se na parte sudoeste do Estado da…

The bulk of research on teacher knowledge has taken place in elementary and secondary school settings. The goal of this study was to examine teacher knowledge in higher education by asking: (1) what types of knowledge are drawn upon in…

A major contribution of research in workplace literacy has been to explore the part that writing plays in the knowledge-making practices of various professional groups. While such enquiry has revealed that writing is essential to the creation and use of…

The Gulf of Mexico engenders; a preponderant economie. ecological, oceanographic, and strategic importance. It constitutes an excellent physical laboratory within which major oceanographic processes can be studied aiid extrapolated to other parts of the world's, oceans. Given its geographical location…

This study examined the efficacy of conjoint behavioural consultation (CBC) with children evidencing conduct problems, the impact of CBC in enhancing parental knowledge of behavioural principles, and whether knowledge of behavioural principles is related to improved parenting skills. An A/B…

The structural design of power transmission lines requires knowledge from a variety of widely-dispersed expert sources. This thesis demonstrates how an expert system can be efficiently used to assemble and organize this knowledge in order to design a wide range…