In numerous animal groups, individuals within the group often wish to impose
their preferences and guide the group in a certain direction. Conflicting preferences are
common in these situations and, in order to maintain group cohesion, collective decisionmaking
needs to…

As a growing number of firms , especially those in the United States, outsource more of their professional services across geographic and temporal boundaries. Using a multi-faceted framework for this study, this paper shows that very careful analysis is needed…

In the numerous agricultural information technologies, agricultural knowledge system has become an important part of the agricultural intelligent information technology (AIIT). This paper introduces the composition and working principle of the development tool for the binary tree-based knowledge system and…

En muchas bases de conocimiento para el PLN prevalece actualmente un enfoque lexicista. En cambio, FunGramKB utiliza la ontología como módulo pivote entre los niveles léxicos y cognitivos, convirtiéndose así en el componente más importante. El propósito de este artículo…

Geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) is the process of extracting information and knowledge from massive georeferenced databases. Usually the process is accomplished by two different systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data mining engines. However, the development of those…

Security has been major concern of mankind for decades. Various techniques have introduced to provide possible solutions and this list is growing everyday. Most of these techniques are preventive and are mainly used to raise alarms. With growing knowledge and…

The purpose of this study was to assess the pedagogical equivalence, as determined by knowledge gains, and the pedagogical effectiveness of certain components in a video-driven multimedia, web-based professional development training program as compared to a traditional, face-to-face program under…

In this article, we present our approach to communication design, which focuses on the organization of information for a particular audience and communicative purpose, drawing on knowledge from a range of disciplines including linguistics and communication. We argue that communication…

The past five years have seen the arrival and extremely rapid expansion of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Western Hemisphere. The rapid sweep across North America has permitted little time for developing knowledge of the virus's potential impacts on…

Indigenous knowledge and the millenary experience in management of natural vegetation on karsticlandscapes are important aspects that should be considered in animal production in seasonal tropical environments.The aim of the present work was to make an inventory of native plants…