Bees... by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought... know that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material. Abstract. This paper presents an eclectic approach for compressing weighted nite-state automata and transducers, with minimal impact on performance. The approach is eclectic in the sense that various complement...

The point of departure of this essay is the notable lack of theory application to the study of TNCs, environment and development. In order to compensate for this problem, it is proposed that economic theories of international production could provide a suitable starting point for the generation of hypotheses regarding the environmental implications of FDI in LDCs. The main advantage of these th...

In order to train distance learning students the discernment abilio, teachers often suggest to them web courseware on some specific topics, such as a controversial social issues, with different view points. Traditional discriminating strategies based on simple keyword matching often lead to low accuracy of discrimination. This paper proposes a method called DRSA (Discriminating via Representati...

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...