Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

A defense of Immanuel Kant's notion of practical reason" (1993). CUNY Academic Works. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Schwarzenbach, for her assistance in this project. I am especially grateful for the content of her instruction and the work ethic she has instilled in me; each of which I am confident will have a significant influence in much of...

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr.Sartaj K. Sahni, my supervisory committee members, Dr.Sanjay Ranka and Dr.Zuofeng Li, for giving me an opportunity to work on this challenging topic and for providing continuous guidance and feedback during the course of this work and thesis writing. I also wish to take this opportunity to thank my parents for th...

B. At least one course will be taken in each of the following areas: social science, humanities, and history. C. At least four courses will be taken in one of the following disciplines as a field of specialization: literature, music, history, political science, sociology, and economics. A candidate may elect a five-course interdisciplinary focus on Africa or Afro-American affairs as a specializ...

Procrastinationhasbeenreportedasaprevalentphenomenoninthegeneralpopulation,affecting anumberofadults.Procrastinationinacademiamayhaveparticularlyseriouseffectsforstudents intertiaryeducation,whoseacademiclivesarecharacterisedbyfrequentdeadlines.Indeed,ithas beenshownthatuniversitystudentswhoratedhighonprocrastinationreceivedlowgrades(Tice &...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...

This paper gives an overv iew of the na tu ra l language problems addressed in the Traffic In format ion CoHator /Condenscr (TICC) p ro jeer, and describes in some deta i l the "interest ing-corner parser" used in the TICC's Na tura l Language Summariser . The TICC is designed to take free text input describing local traffic incidents, and au tomat i ca l ly ou t put local traffic in fo rmat io...