This study presents the results of an empirical test of two hypotheses concerning the
quality of a group of data processing patents on methods of doing business. The
hypotheses are motivated by two frequently voiced criticisms of these…

If we are to understand human-level intelligence, we need to understand how meanings can be learned without explicit instruction. I take a step toward that understanding by focusing on the symbol-grounding problem, showing how symbols can emerge from a system…

ABSTRACT: Micronutrients availability is na important constraint for crops in the Cerrado region, and its correction is always needed to obtaining economic yields. Old and new nutritional problems came with the agriculture expansion in Cerrado. Although being crucial for increasing…

Las aproximaciones de Modelado Conceptual para la web necesitan extensiones para especificar propiedades de personalización dinámica para diseñar aplicaciones web más potentes. Las propuestas actuales proveen técnicas para soportar personalización dinámica, usualmente enfocadas en detalles de implementación. Este artículo presenta…

RESUMO: Folhas e caules, com sintomas de antracnose, foram coletados de populações nativas de Stylosanthes spp., de 1997 a 2000, em localidades de Minas Gerais, Goiás e Bahia, para avaliar a variabilidade patogenica do agente causal (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides). Duzentos e…

For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of…

Intellectual capital, as opposed to traditional conceptions of intellectual property, is neither as simple to define nor as straightforward to protect and regulate. As companies in the financial services sector attempt the efficient management of increasingly voluminous and strategically important…

An indirect crisis, the terrorist attacks of September 1 1 , is used as a catalyst to review the tasks of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime. However, it is insufficient to initiate a comprehensive change to the regime to incorporate the…

The purpose was to examine the domain specificity of the self-regulatory skills of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) compared to their peers without DCD. Participants included 10 children with DCD and 10 without. A sport specific problem-solving task (shooting…

In chapter one, I describe the different conceptions of self that Murdoch and Nussbaum have, and I show how these affect their depictions of human good. And I relate how each one defends the internal logic of her claims against…