This paper examines the relationship between disability and "queerness." I argue that the hostility frequently expressed against both disabled and queer individuals is a function of fear of the undecidability of the body. I draw on feminist, queer, and disability theory to help us understand this phenomenon and suggest that these different kinds of theories have a complementary relationship. Th...

This paper describes surge, a syntactic realization front-end for natural language generation systems. By gradually integrating complementary aspects of various linguistic theories within the computational framework of functional unii-cation, surge has evolved to be one of the most comprehensive grammars of English for language generation available today. It has been successfully re-used in a v...

The obvious advantages of prototyping and incremental development for interactive systems lead some people to believe that specifications of such systems are unnecessary or even harmful. I question whether there really is a conflict between specifications and prototypes. In fact the two schools have more in common than is usually supposed. Both specifications and prototypes can be understood as...

Rough Set theory has proved to be an adequate technique in imperfect data analysis, which has found interesting extensions and various applications. It can be regarded as complementary to other theories that deal with imperfect knowledge, such as Bayesian inference or fuzzy sets. The paper presents some Rough Set Theory applications in electrical power engineering. Index Terms — data management...

Cognitive and practice-based approaches to organisational knowledge and learning are typically portrayed as incommensurable, with the result that there has been little positive dialogue between the two traditions. This paper argues that the incompatibility of the two sets of approaches has been overstated and that there is actually much that each can learn from the other. Cognitive approaches, ...

This article analyzes the distribution of financial value from innovation in the global supply chains of iPods and notebook computers. We find that Apple has captured a great deal of value from the innovation embodied in the iPod, while notebook makers capture a more modest share of the value from PC innovation. In order to understand these differences, we employ concepts from theories of innov...

We study in the framework of R-parity violating supersymmetric theories the effect of R-parity violation due to the operator L i L j E k on the (V − A) structure of the muon decay. The precisely measured muon decay parameters can constrain a product of R-parity violating couplings: |λ 232 λ 131 | < 0.022 at the 90% CL, which is complementary to the previous limits obtained by the e-µ universali...

Total masking of a colored disk in the Werner disk-ring paradigm wus found to be a function of the interaction between its color and the color of the ring that followed it. Suppression occurred most frequently when disk and ring hues were identical, least often when complementary hues were paired, and with intermediate frequency when hues were different but noncomplementary. Results were consis...

This paper analyzes and makes explicit design principles that underline the software game The Return of The Incredible Machine: Contraptions,”. In order to do this it takes into account two complementary perspectives – educational software engineering and theories of learning through play and games. One goal of the analysis is to identify the specific design features that make edutainment softw...

Instead of the half-century old foundational feud between set theory and category theory, this paper argues that they are theories about two different complementary types of universals. The set-theoretic antinomies forced naïve set theory to be reformulated using some iterative notion of a set so that a set would always have higher type or rank than its members. Then the universal uF = {x | F (...