There have often been complaints about the lack of implementation of basic research findings from cognitive science into curricula. We are conducting a large research study to examine whether systematic modification of middle school science curricula using general cognitive science principles can significantly improve student learning in large urban school districts. A team of cognitive scienti...

1 A preliminary version of this paper appeared in ‘‘Proceedings of 5th International Ž . Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel IRREGULAR’98 ,’’ Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1457, pp. 298 309, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. 2 Supported in part by Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed. ...

the paper first addresses the confilict between religion and science, together with some solutions proposed. it then proposes religious knowledge as an epistimological field which obey the laws of empirical sciences. the solution put forward addresses a deep_rooted confilict,as it is in reference to one concerning scientific and religious propositions. moreover, it does not ignore the confilict...

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The notion of a strong sufficient statistic was introduced in [N. Vereshchagin, Algorithmic Minimal Sufficient Statistic Revisited. Proc. 5th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2009, LNCS 5635, pp. 478-487]. In this paper, we give a survey of fine properties of strong sufficient statistics and show that there are strings for which complexity of every strong sufficient statistic is much ...