Currently, people involved in protection against disaster situations must
make the decisions about preparing and executing evacuation plans for potential
causes of disaster. Hence, it would be desirable to develop a system capable
of obtaining and analyzing evacuation plans…

"En zonas semiáridas del centro de México la sobreexplotación de pastizales ha ocasionado severa reducción de su productividad. Su fisonomía se caracteriza por espacios abiertos con presencia de costras biológicas del suelo. Aunque este tipo de paisaje es representativo de…

"En el Altiplano Potosino, la especie vegetal utilizada para la producción de mezcal es Agave salmiana. La industria mezcalera, que carece de sistemas de explotación basados en el conocimiento biológico de la especie que utiliza como materia prima, puede causar…

Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, y dentro de éstos las Metas del Milenio, constituyen un plan operativo para la consecución de logros básicos dirigidos al alcance de la salud, la erradicación de la pobreza y el cumplimiento de los…

The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998—the transsystemic programme—was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes the programme as an ongoing conversation about…

The first edition of the CASPUR Summer School for Advanced Computing took place from August 29 to September 9th, 2005, in the ENI meeting center in the beautiful surroundings of Castel Gandolfo’s lake. The school has been invented to further…

Motivation

Several approaches have been developed for mining spatial data (i.e.,
generalization-based methods, clustering, spatial associations, approximation
and aggregation, mining in image and raster databases, spatial classification
and spatial trend detection). However, we argue that these approaches do

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the method of meaning implication discourse analysis can be applied in the context of online collaborative reflective practice of student teachers. The method was developed to identify knowledge building in networked…

Abstract: Born into a religious family, Ḥamka traveled extensively to acquire knowledge. Having gained mastery of Arabic, ḤAMKA translated the Qur’ān, commented extensively on its various aspects and used it as a tool for the purification of Islam in Indonesia.…