Keywords: A Prelude and an Appendix

A Prelude to Standard and Standardization in Educational Systems

education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings ineducational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education.Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the present article tries to address this matter, due to the fact that we are in a situ...

Prelude to a Kiss

We consider expanding maps of the circle with an almost neutral fixed point c. In this setting the ergodic averages of a smooth observable A satisfy the Central Limit Theorem. If A(c) = 0 we show that the expectation and the variance behave as the square root of the multiplier of c times rapidly oscillating functions of parameters.

Prelude, prophecy, and promise.

Transcription Prelude

A short music piece for solo piano, created from the synthesized output of an automatic transcription system developed by the authors, is presented in this paper. The piece was a result of a happy accident when attempting to port the Linuxbased automatic transcription system into the Windows OS. As an input, J.S. Bach’s Prelude in C Minor from the The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I was employed, ...

Cohabitation in Botswana: An Alternative or a Prelude to Marriage?

Given the recent increase in the prevalence of cohabiting unions in Botswana, this paper speculates on the role this type of union plays in contemporary Botswana family system. The analysis is based on the combination of qualitative and quantitative data from the 2001 Cohabitation Survey and the 1996 Botswana Family Health Survey respectively. The overall results reveal that cohabitation differ...