Interestingly, the next sentence in the introduction tells us that ‘ [t]he thematic organization of this volume reflects the major characteristics of Greek’ (). Unfortunately, the thematic organization of the volume fails to be reflected in the arrangement of the chapters, which turns out to be alphabetical. It may very well be that in the editors’ minds there is some thematic organization in ...

This thematic collection includes three failed replications of the initial rotating screen experiments with 41⁄2and 51⁄2-month-old infants (Baillargeon, 1987a; Baillargeon, Spelke, & Wasserman, 1985). Readers should be aware that Lécuyer in France (using computer-animated events) and Slater in England are currently conducting replications of these same experiments, with highly promising results...

Learning Management Systems or e-Learning systems have been typically deployed to provide a means for the deposition of content which students access in a browse mode. Often a discussion space is provided to facilitate some course relevant communication. In this article we argue that if the e-Learning system can be adapted to match the educational design of particular courses, both students and...

abstracts Sections: pp 2–5 Plenary Lecture Abstracts pp 6–47 Session Abstracs the abstracts in each section are displayed in alphabetical order according to (first) author

scalability by replicating identical packets at routers. However, since its initial proposal the IP-multicast has not been widely enabled due to the slow pace of its deployment. Hence, the application-level multicast concept emerged to solve this deployment issue by shifting the multicast support from routers to end-systems. The article reviews the most important facts of the Application-Level ...

predicates are words or groups of words which are considered as the most important semantic elements of the sentence. following manouilidou, almeida, schwartz and nair, this research investigates the nature of verb disorder in persian alzheimer patients. to this end, the property of thematic role assignment by three kinds of predicates has been focused upon. the first kind of predicates include...

Thematic map symbol is a basic component of thematic map language and it plays an important role in expressing the thematic content. However, the extensity of users leads to the diversity and complexity of the thematic symbols and expression methods, and most of the thematic maps do not have a fixed format and norms like topographic map. At the same time, we can not require all the users to be ...

To extract quantitative information from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper-Plus (ETM+) imagery accurately, atmospheric correction is a necessary step. After reviewing historical development of atmospheric correction of Landsat thematic mapper (TM) imagery, we present a new algorithm that can effectively estimate the spatial distribution of atmospheric aerosols and retrieve surface reflectance from E...