Ce mémoire traite du rôle des réseaux sociaux dans les trajectoires de vie des personnes qui vivent de l’aide sociale au Québec. La discrimination et la stigmatisation sont des processus émanant de rapports sociaux dans lesquels peuvent être inscrites ces…

The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the relationship between persuasive definition and common knowledge (propositions generally accepted and not subject to dispute in a discussion). We interpret the gap between common knowledge and persuasive definition (PD) in…

Une préoccupation essentielle traverse cette thèse: l'indifférence systémique de la Loi internationale sur la propriété intellectuelle a l'égard des savoirs traditionnels autochtones. De manière générale, un écart semble d'ailleurs croissant entre l'importance des accords internationaux sur les questions d'intérêt commercial…

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The way frailty is conceptualised and interpreted has profound implications for social responses, care practice and the personal experience of care. This paper begins with an exegesis of the concept of frailty, and then examines the dominant notions of frailty,…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

When I first started reading Ms. Le Guin's novel, I was struck by the presence in it of what I then recognized as elements from Eastern philosophy and thought, in particular Taoism. Long before mention is made of the yin-yang…

Along with changes which occur in different social institutions in the world, education and particularly universities are enroute to adding an economic and a productive role to their cultural mission and knowledge. These changes are done by using information and…

El camarón blanco del Pacifico, Litopenaeus vannamei, es una de las especies que más se cultiva en el mundo, debido principalmente a su rápido crecimiento, buena supervivencia a alta densidad de cultivo, y capacidad de osmoregulación, que lo hacen una…

Much effort has been dedicated to provide a general model of agents working in complex environments. This research focuses on the high level cognition used in determining the behavior of the agent.
The language of the Situation Calculus represents a…