La présente étude a comme objectif d’analyser l’intégration linguistique des immigrants au marché du travail au Québec et les facteurs qui y sont associés. Nous le réalisons en examinant la place du français dans les pratiques linguistiques de la main-d’œuvre…

Le sujet de l’avortement provoqué demeure encore tabou au Togo et la compréhension du phénomène reste incomplète. La présente étude vise à dresser un portrait complet de ses divers aspects dans la capitale togolaise, qui a connu une baisse importante…

SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial automation and modularity. It builds upon the situated courteous logic programs knowledge representation in RuleML, the emerging…

What man primarily sees in his continual social interactions are the faces
of other persons. Starting from this vision is how he tries to infer what
is happening in the bodies and minds of those individuals and then conclude

The aim of this paper is to increase the knowledge of the diversity of digenean parasites from birds collected in Formosa Province, Argentina. The helminthological survey of 15 specimens of 6 bird species revealed the presence of 5 digenean species:…

A new freshwater leech species Helobdella fantasmae n. sp. is described. This description is based on the examination of 12 specimens collected in Laguna Fantasma, Bariloche (41° 05'S 71° 28'W), during December 2002. Leeches were found attached to submerged plants.…

This chapter summarizes selected results from the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) and briefly describes a vision for future Amazonian research. The need for research on people and environment interactions is emphasized in the context of regional and global…

The primary questions addressed in this paper are the following: what are the factors that affect students’ adoption of an e-learning system and what are the relationships among these factors?

This paper investigates and identifies some of the…

During the past two decades, educational institutions around the world began formalizing the process of collecting student work as a means of showcasing student accomplishments and ultimately providing students a forum for reflecting on their accomplishments. In this article, the…

The paper presents the process of development of an artificial intelligence, AI, software prototype for environmental management developed in CETEC within the scope of Project CRHA (2003-2006). This software is a tool for helping the user in his/her way of…