Executive Summary • Services dominate advanced economies, accounting for about three quarters of their gross value added and employment. Discounting government and other public services, private sector services account for about half of economic activity in advanced economies. Moreover services are the only part of advanced economies to have expanded in terms of employment in recent years, as m...

"In a sort of way, it is with man as with commodities. Since he comes into the world neither with a looking glass in his hand, nor as a Fichtian philosopher, to whom 'I am I' is sufficient, man first sees and recognizes himself in other men. Peter only establishes his own identity as a man by first comparing himself with Paul as being of like kind. And thereby Paul, just as he stands in his Pau...

Rupert Sheldrake (1994) has written a curious book, Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-ItYourself Guide to Revolutionary Science. Sheldrake proposes an Alice Through the Looking Glass vision of things that possibly could be so but, in all probability, are not. Doing science in a controlled and thoughtful manner is a challenging and tricky operation. This is especially true of r...

Numerous swelling parameters measured by magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) are found to correlate with cross-link density of the polymer network under investigation. Use of these parameters to assess the three-dimensional network structure of coal is discussed.

We view match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g., XML schemas) and produces a mapping between the nodes of these graphs that correspond semantically to each other. Semantic schema matching is based on the two ideas: (i) we discover mappings by computing semantic relations (e.g., equivalence, more general); (ii) we determine semantic relations by analyzing the meaning (con...