What is the best way to understand 'applies to' when it is said of a linguistic theory that it applies to a particular language-user? We can answer by saying that a linguistic theory is applicable to an individual language-user just…

The development of decision support systems for equipment diagnosis has been found to be an iterative process whereby functionality and knowledge are continually added to a prototype until satisfactory performance is achieved. In order to reduce both the dependency on…

En este trabajo defiendo la idea de que la competencia lingüística está constituida por lo que denomino 'actitudes de aceptación subdoxásticas'. Estas son estados mentales cognoscitivos con un contenido conceptual, pero que son inconscientes en un sentido profundo. En primer…

Mexico counts among the five countries with the highest biodiversity in the world. In the Yucatán Peninsula, there are aquatic ecosystems with a very special microbial diversity. These ecosystems are essential for the ecological equilibrium of the region, and are…

Sadr al-Din Qunavi (605/1207-673AH/1274 CE)--stepson and pupil of Ibn $ rm sp{c}$Arabi (d. 638 AH/1240 CE)--played a pivotal role in the development of Islamic intellectual history. His contributions in the medieval period helped alter the course of mystico-philosophical tradition, which…

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the medical data management expert system at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Montreal Children's Hospital. The objective of this study is to provide a systematic method to evaluate and, progressively…

This study examines how prior knowledge influences future learning. Although it has been established that prior knowledge does have a strong impact on later learning, it is not clear how this effect manifests itself. Previous research suggests that one way…

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Cumpre a Associação de Amigos do Arquivo Público mais uma etapa de seu programa de trabalho, com este novo número de Ágora, trazendo como motivo de capa o desenho de fachada da futura sede de nosso Arquivo Público do Estado.

No dia 21 de setembro de 1996, um crime abalou os moradores do Sertão do Ribeirão da Ilha: a morte de Francisco Tomás dos Santos, o seu Chico. Preocupado com o destino do engenho deste, um leitor escreve ao jornal.