Compositionality is a property that a language may have and may lack, namely the property that the meaning of any complex expression is determined by the meanings of its parts and the way they are put together. The language can be natural or formal, but it has to be interpreted. That is, meanings, or more generally, semantic values of some sort must be assigned to linguistic expressions, and co...

in Minnesota who were covered by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) received life-saving thrombolytic treatments at least as often as those covered by traditional fee-for-service (FFS) plans. In addition, they were slightly more likely to have received emergency transportation and aspirin therapy, according to a recent study funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (HS07357...

ducators who understand that schools are complex interdependent social systems can move their organizations forward. Unfortunately, many education leaders today fail to grasp the interconnectedness of these components, resulting in little or no progress. As such, many planned changes address only symptoms, not the underlying root causes, of the problems. Subsequently, meaningful improvements do...

conceptualization (AC) mode,230, 231; accommodators, 231; activeexperimentation (AE) mode, 230, 231;assimilators, 231, 232; concreteexperience (CE) mode, 230, 231;convergers, 231, 232; derived learningstyles, 231; divergers, 231; learningcycle, 230–231; reflective observation(RO) mode, 230, 231Krathwohl, D. R. See Anderson andKrathwohl’s hybrid taxonomy<l...