The Semantic Web attempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web will no longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable. An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. A conceptualization is an abstract, simplified…

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a well-known form of
discourse analysis which is built around the examination of the
ideological, social, historical and cultural components of
discourse. The field has become well-established since the early
1980s…

Vertical partitioning, in which attributes of a relation are
assigned to partitions, is aimed at improving database
performance. We extend previous research that is based on
a single relation to multi-relation database environment,
by including referential integrity constraints, access time

This paper is an attempt to define how a
specific data structure might be used to
store, in a persistent manner, temporal
information during a computer simulation.
In particular, it considers the sort of
temporal information generated during a
discrete…

We describe the design, implementation and deployment of the multi-level agent-based system architecture developed for the SEWASIE project. The aim of the system is to help the user in querying heterogeneous data sources which are integrated by means of ontologies.…

Presentamos el cálculo de la estructura electrónica de bandas de la superficie ideal del Pt(100) y Pt(110). El cálculo se realizó utilizando la teoría del funcional de la densidad y el método de enlace fuerte. Como resultado de nuestro cálculo…

Simon Borg is Professor of TESOL at the School of Education of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He teaches MA TESOL modules on Teacher Education and Grammar Teaching. He is on the editorial boards of Language Teaching…

This special issue compiles a number of articles which take a serious look at grammar teaching and learning at Primary and Secondary School. Grammar has always had a central role in educational considerations and still remains one of the most…

Purpose: The aim of this study is to define the profile of the Management Assistant in organizations and from that profile establish the competences of a degree in Management Assistance under the new European Higher Education Area.Design/methodology: The first phase involved the…

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