The question of rationality and modernity has played a key role in defining the West’sunderstanding of itself in relation to “the other.” Much of this self-defining was done in a waythat privileged a western model of rationality, which itself was…

In a world in which markets are more globalised and continuously evolving, industry need new tools to enhance their flexibility and maintain competitiveness. A key strategy is discovering useful knowledge through the information gathered from production processes. In recent decades,…

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Concept maps are graphical representations of relationships among concepts that can be an effective tool for teaching, designing, and organizing information in a variety of library settings. Concept maps can be used wherever training or formal teaching occurs as a…

This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through the Renaissance invention of the terrestrial globe.…

Biclustering has become a very popular data mining technique due to its ability to explore at the same time two different dimensions, as opposed to clustering techniques, that make use of only one dimension. Gene expression data offer a suitable…

Since ancient times, fishing has been a major source of food for humanity and a provider of employment and economic benefits to those engaged in this activity. However, with increased knowledge and the dynamic development of fisheries it was realized…

With the increasing demand for composite materials by the industry, the adhesive joints emer ge as an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical joints. The latter require as a preliminary step, the drilling of the laminates with consequent damage to the…

This dissertation sets out to examine the conceptual domains of CHANGE and
POSSESSION by selecting two main verbal classes, namely entity-specific change-ofstate verbs for the domain of CHANGE and contribute verbs for that of POSSESSION.
The most important step consisted…