Two, seemingly different modular techniques for concurrent system development are investigated from a categorical perspective. A novel approach is presented in which they turn out to be merely special instances of pullback, a general categorical limit construction. Interestingly, the approach is based on truly concurrent semantics of systems. 1 Mathematical Preliminaries A transition system is ...

The need for progressive change in people’s attitudes and behaviors is essential for a communitywide acceptance of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals. This article examines our role as library and information science (LIS) professionals working in an academic environment to promote equality of sexual minorities by taking community action and creating so...

A simple and reliable protocol for plant regeneration from petioles of micropropagated plants of kiwifruit [Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev) Liang and Ferguson, var. deliciosa ‘Hayward’] is described. Morphogenic callus was initiated by culturing petioles taken from in vitro-propagated plants. From the media tested, Cheng’s K(h) medium plus 0.1 μM IAA, 4.5 μM zeatin, and 2% sucrose was the best fo...

The rise of the knowledge economy challenges coordinated models capitalism by requiring their skill formation systems to produce a workforce with higher skills. This paper examines how adapts upskilling pressures jointly studying general education and vocational training (VET) at both upper-secondary tertiary levels. Employing comparative research design covering German Swiss efforts over past ...

Bruce Wardhaugh, Competition, Effects and Predictability: Rule of Law the Economic Approach to Oxford: Hart, 2020, 272 pp, hb £70.00 Competition law scholarship tends be preoccupied with questions substance. ‘More’ or ‘less’ intervention? Contentment concern concentrated markets? Which business practices should prohibited? These are key issues significant consequences for enforcement. But subst...

Conceived within an input–output metaphor of language processing, many traditional assumptions regarding the task-based teaching (TBLT) approach are finding English to learners with special education needs (SENs) difficult. In this concept-based article, I retrace process conceiving a “task-supported ecology” for group intellectual disabilities by balancing viewpoints TBLT theorists, ecological...

Zajonc and I differ greatly in our conceptualization of emotion and its relations with cognition, as well as in our evaluation of the evidence. My reply is in two parts. First, I discuss the boundaries of emotion as a phenomenon and whether sensory preferences can be regarded as emotions; second, I make an analysis of the evidence Zajonc regards as supporting his claims for the independence of ...

It is a surprise to see how, as years go by, two activities so germane to our discipline, (1) the creation of quality software, and (2) the quality teaching of software construction, and more generally of Computer Science, are surrounded or covered, little by little, by beliefs, attitudes, “schools of thought,” superstitions and fetishes rarely seen in a scientific endeavor. Each day, more peop...

THISARTICLE OFFERS A FORMAL READING of a classification scheme of international scope and long duration: the International Classijication ofDiseases (ID). The argument is made that this classification scheme retains many traces of its own administrative and organizational past in its current form. Further, it is argued that such traces operate normatively to favor certain kinds of narrative of ...

Science and technology are undoubtedly an important part in the growth of many western nations. However, the idea that these two result in an overall better quality of life is not necessarily exportable to other regions of the world with other cultural backgrounds. Considerable evidence shows that the incorporation of this idea to the developmental policies of less developed countries is unfrui...