A pragmatic phenomenological approach in environmental planning Preface This thesis is the result of a year of research into the philosophical backgrounds of the design of our landscape. The main challenge was the integration of philosophical theories and ideas with concrete issues of environmental planning. My interest in both abstract theorising and concrete changes in the landscape led to a ...

A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic savings is not the primary constraint on growth in these economies, as implicitly assumed in the benchmark neoclassical framework. We explore em...

The age cut-off of 65 years has long been an arbitrary and illogical criterion for accessing older adult mental health services, and the introduction of the Equality Act (2010) in England andWales (http://www.homeoffice. gov.uk/equalities/equality-act) has probably made it unlawful. However, the ongoing absence of a robust definition of ‘Old Age Psychiatry’ is leading to a fragmentation of serv...

Licensing is a topic of increasing importance for software publishers and users. More and more, software licensing is performed electronically by mechanisms running on the system on which the licensed software operates. In order to facilitate the use and management of such licensing systems and to enable economic software usage in enterprise-wide computer systems, various organizations are form...

We present an approach for designing a literate programming tool that, in addition to covering the technical issues, especially targets the acceptance of the documentation system by the program developer. We then describe the DosfOp documentation system for the Opal language, which was developed in line with these design principles. Finally, we discuss experiences with the system from a user's ...

Creativity is recognizable only in a given context thereby making its definition elusive. In design, creativity in a domain may depend on characteristics of the process or the product, or both. In this paper, we argue that a better understanding of creativity can occur by focusing on the conditions that allow for creative acts. With respect to design research, we believe that it would be most p...

We describe an approach to regression based on building a probabilistic model with the aid of visualization. The “stereopsis” data set in the predictive uncertainty challenge is used as a case study, for which we constructed a mixture of neural network experts model. We describe both the ideal Bayesian approach and computational shortcuts required to obtain timely results.

The VMS operating system's CPU-dependent support of the VAX 6000 family of computers implements a complex and sophisticated set of error-handling routines. At the start of a VMS session, these routines help construct the necessary framework to support the I/O subsystem as the system begins to emerge. For much of a VMS session, these routines then lay dormant within the SYSLOA image. Periodicall...

Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently during information-seeking dialogs in task domains. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances. Discourse expectations and focusing heuristics are used to facilitate recognition of an information-seeker's intent in uttering an elliptical fragment. The ellipsis is comprehended by identifying both the as...