As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

When using tableaux algorithms to reason about Description Logics (DLs), new information is inferred from the models considered while trying to achieve knowledge satisfiability. By focusing the ontology change problem, we consider an environment where DLs are the logical formalization…

The science of histology endeavours to achieve a knowledge of the detailed morphology of normal tissues. It is also concerned with relating the structure and function of biological (morphological) units at the microscopic level to their internal and external environments.

The most complete accounts of Lepidoperon embryology are by Toyama (1902), Eastham. (1927), Johannsen (1929), Gross and Howland (1940), Rempel (1951) and Presser and Rutschky (1957). There are many other papers that either deal with the development of only one…

The expanding use of wood pulp and pulp products has emphasized the need for increased basic knowledge dealing with the waste materials and by-products of the forest industries. Wood bark is one or the major byproducts. In the paper industry…

This article presents the confluence of two general ideas: Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP, an argumentation based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning) and Abduction in logic. In first place, we introduce a framework that formally states the problem of doing…

This study was designed to examine the ability to use prior knowledge in text comprehension and knowledge integration. The focus of the research was on effects of different degrees of subjects' theoretical knowledge in the domain of biochemistry on their…

The need for continued investigation into the mechanism of motor function has been emphasized recently by Bucy (1957) in a critical review entitled, "ls there a pyramidal tract?" and by Lassek, Woolsey, Walker, and Boshes (1957) in a symposium of…

This historical introduction would have to be greatly extended if it were to deal with the details of the anatomical and physiological developments that led to our present knowledge of the reticular activating or arousal system. Recognition of its significance…

The magnitude of the problem of ascites is not readily apparent to the clinician. A classification of conditions in which ascites occurs and a consideration of therapy occupy his thinking when confronted by a patient with the sign. Those actively…