Revisiting Contextualism in Political Theory: Putting Principles into Context

Putting concepts into context.

At first glance, conceptual representations (e.g., our internal notion of the object "lemon") seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon "means" (a sour, yellow, football-shaped citrus fruit) and that this meaning does not vary. Research in semantic memory has traditionally taken this "static" perspective. Consequently, only effects demonstrated across a ...

Putting Cells into Context

CELLS LIVE IN A COMPLEX WORLD It may sound blatantly obvious, but we have to remind ourselves occasionally that in vivo cells experience an environment with a level of complexity far beyond experimental reach. The developing organism is a highly complex system, where each cell receives a multitude of cues of diverse nature at any given time point. Only the comprehensive integration of all these...

Putting Theory into Practice

Putting noninvasive lung mechanics into context.

Anyone who teaches medical students about how the lungs work meets an immediate problem. The best way to describe the mechanics of breathing is in terms of airways resistance and lung compliance but these measurements are not readily available in clinical practice. Instead clinicians focus on the indirect information available from spirometry. The great advantage that spirometry offers is its k...

Putting XML Query Algebras into Context

While the XML community appears to be converging on XQuery as a standard for querying XML documents, there is currently much less consensus about a standard algebra. In this paper, we describe the algebra we have implemented in our XML query evaluation system. Our goal was to specify an algebra that is powerful enough to handle the XQuery language, yet simple enough to be amenable to optimizati...