Preface. Conditional: Conceptual and Historical Analysis

Medical Thinking. A historical preface

LESTER S. KING, Medical Thinking. A historicalpreface, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 336, £13.80. This is an interesting and a very readable book, which no doubt owes some of its interest to the author, in addition to having practised pathology, having studied philosophy before his medical studies, and having maintained a life-long interest in medical history. The leitmotiv of t...

A Conceptual Analysis and Historical Overview of Information Literacy

A conceptual analysis is undertaken of information literacy by investigating some leading definitions and delineations of the concept. These are analyzed with the intention of exploring chronological extensions in the meaning of the concept. The range of skills and knowledge required for information literacy has . expanded over the last two decades in order to accommodate the continually develo...

Renaissance in Rewards: A Historical Preface and Comparative Analysis Of Contemporary Pay Practices

Preface Section 1: Conceptual Design and Ontology-based Integration

For the past fifteen years, data warehousing and on line analysis (OLAP) technologies have shown their effectiveness in managing and analyzing a large amount of disparate data. Today, these technologies are confronted with new applications (mobile environments, data integration, data flow, personalization, stream data, sensor network applications, etc.) and new challenges as shown by the increa...

Preface: semantic and conceptual issues in geographic information systems

Recent advances in information technologies have increased the production, collection, and diffusion of geographical data, thus favoring the design and development of geographic information systems (GIS). Nowadays, GIS are emerging as a common information infrastructure that penetrate into more and more aspects of our society. This has given rise to new methodological and data engineering chall...