When considering plasticity, the central nervous system can be viewed as a building block house. After damage, building components might be lost or loosened and may be rearranged by renovation, analogous to neuroplasticity that occurs after central nervous system injury. In both scenarios, the location and severity of damage will determine the efficacy of renovation/rehabilitation and thus the ...

Abstract Teacher self- and collective efficacy are important motivational factors in determining teachers’ effort their professional practice. Teachers’ higher levels of positively associated with student achievement specific domains, enhanced wellbeing commitment to profession. This qualitative study explores primary own views about naturalistic characteristic experiences influences that have ...

Biocide contamination of receiving waters is generally linked with agriculture. However, recent studies have shown that urban contributions should be also considered [1,2]. One of the suspected biocide sources in the urban environment is building paint. Biocides like diuron, irgarol, terbutryn, carbendazim, etc., are conventionally used in paint to control fungi, algae, bacteria and other micro...

This paper describes WIT, a toolkit for building spoken dialogue systems. WIT features an incremental understanding mechanism that enables robust utterance understanding and realtime responses. WIT’s ability to compile domain-dependent system specifications into internal knowledge sources makes building spoken dialogue systems much easier than it is from scratch.

This Ontologies are widely used as a means for solving the information heterogeneity problems on the web because of their capability to provide explicit meaning to the information. They become an efficient tool for knowledge representation in a structured manner. There is always more than one ontology for the same domain. Furthermore, there is no standard method for building ontologies, and the...

We shall present our approach for knowledge Management, based on materialization of organizational memories through organizational semantic webs. Such an approach relies on building and reasoning on ontologies describing the main concepts shared in a domain knowledge. Such ontologies enable to associate semantic annotations to resources (persons, documents, software, services) constituting the ...