This chapter enquires into the nature of university teaching. I consider whether Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of a practice, together with some of his related ideas, is useful to us here. My argument is that MacIntyre’s talk of incommensurable rationalities tells in the end against the fragmentation of higher education and rather points to one distinctive and important role for the university: t...

Recent interest in renewable energy production has exponentially increased the utilization of ethanol, a biofuel produced largely from corn in the United States. Increased production of ethanol has redistributed corn from livestock production to ethanol production. In 2002, 11% of the US corn crop was used in ethanol production; with the increase in production as much as 30% of US corn was bein...

In this paper, we aim to investigate the coordination of interlocutors behavior in different emotional segments. Conversational coordination between the interlocutors is the tendency of speakers to predict and adjust each other accordingly on an ongoing conversation. In order to find such a coordination, we investigated 1) lexical similarities between the speakers in each emotional segments, 2)...

Communications networks require increasingly complex resource management to stay up and running. This is particularly true in networks which aim to provide some guaranteed quality of service (either explicitly as in ATM and other connection-oriented architectures or implicitly as in a smoothly running IP network). The resulting increased complexity of routing procedures needs to be handled in a...