The main purpose of the essay is to evaluate present situation and eventual prospectives development comparative literature in context relationship between humanities law. Firstly, some considerations by R. A. Posner on connections law Borowski’s reflections his own loss faith identity discipline as far observations M. Korytowska about subject organisation studies are analysed. Moreover, conten...

The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social scie...

Purpose: To provide some insight to the sharp increase in the scientific publications originating from Turkish academic and research institutions in the last few years. The underlying reasons, widespread access to literature through electronic databases being the most important, are also investigated. Design/methodology/approach: Although it is difficult to gauge national scientific productivit...

This paper gives a detailed description of how adaptivity is realized in e-learning systems, with a focus on adaptivity of courseware. The review aims to answer three basic questions on adaptive courseware: what has been adapted, how and why. Researchers have tried to adapt according to these different elements: student knowledge, behaviour, interests, preferences, learning style, cognitive sty...

The Quæro program has organized a set of evaluations for terminology extraction systems in 2010 and 2011. Three objectives were targeted in this initiative: the first one was to evaluate the behavior and scalability of term extractors regarding the size of corpora, the second goal was to assess progress between different versions of the same systems, the last one was to measure the influence of...

This paper provides a comparative institutional analysis between ENSO forecasting systems in the Pacific and southern Africa with a focus on how scientific information is connected to the decision making process. With billions of dollars in infrastructure and private property, and human health and well-being at risk during ENSO events, forecasting systems have begun to be embraced by managers a...

Relation extraction typically involves the extraction of relations between two or more entities occurring within a single or multiple sentences. In this study, we investigated the significance of extracting information from multiple sentences specifically in the context of drug-disease relation discovery. We used multiple resources such as Semantic Medline, a literature based resource, and Medl...

As a member of the PLOS family, PLOS Computational Biology promotes open and unrestricted access to scientific publications and the research products that support them. For PLOS Computational Biology, this specifically includes computational methods and the software that implements them. To foster a culture of open exchange and reuse of software, we created a new category of manuscripts called ...

In her article, "Is Comparative Literature Ready for the Twenty-First Century?" Eva Kushner observes that throughout its history, comparative literature has internalized as part of its own objectives and directives a major challenge: The need to renew its problematics and curriculums in response to the inherent diversity of literature within culture. She emphasizes that the vitality of the disc...

Background and purpose: National forest programs have been promoted by the international forest policy sphere as a preferred form of policy process by which the sustainable forest management should be reached on national level. As such, it has received a lot of attention in the international legislation and has been important part of the forest policy dialogue. This paper examines the national ...