Acquiring or losing European Union (EU) citizenship is contingent on the possession of one Member States. Since early 1990s, scholars have debated unique character EU citizenship. Remarkably, these debates paid scarcely any attention to how (un)recognised through different conceptions membership in 27 countries that make up its boundaries. This article argues understanding substance requires a ...

The mental representation of the self is a complex construct, comprising both conceptual information, and perceptual information regarding the body. Evidence suggests that both the conceptual self-representation and the bodily self-representation are malleable, and that these different aspects of the self are linked. Changes in bodily self-representation appear to affect how the self is concept...

This paper centers on generalization/specialization relation in the framework of conceptual graphs (this relation corresponds to the logical subsumption when considering the logical formulas associated with conceptual graphs). Results given here apply more generally to any model where knowledge is described by labelled graphs and reasoning is based on graph subsumption, like in semantic network...

One important focus for science education researchers over many years has been the attempts to replace students' commonsense and non-scientific explanations of various phenomena by scientific explanations. The approach we adopted almost three decades ago was conceptual mediation, and this was shown to have a considerable level of success with both conceptual and attitudinal change. However, sin...

Decision making in natural resource management requires that all stakeholders share a consistent and clear understanding of the system in question. Whilst this requirement seems logical enough, gaining consensus across scientists, resource managers from multiple levels of governance and landowners represents one of the greatest challenges in participatory modelling. One approach that has been w...

Ambiguity is an inherent property of natural language. Its most prominent manifestations comprise syntactic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, scope ambiguity and referential ambiguity. Considering the high frequency with which ambiguity occurs in unrestricted natural language, it is surprising how seldom ambiguity causes misunderstandings. Most linguistic ambiguities in inter-human communication ev...

Wireless network on chip (WiNoC) is one of the promising on-chip interconnection networks for on-chip system architectures. In addition to wired links, these architectures also use wireless links. Using these wireless links makes packets reach destination nodes faster and with less power consumption. These wireless links are provided by wireless interfaces in wireless routers. The WiNoC archite...