We would like to thank Eva Dobler, Marc Garellek, Michelle St-Amour and Eva Sokol for their help in conducting the experiments. We also thank the children, administrators and parents at Children’s Corner, CPE McGill, Playskool, SSMU and YMCA Westmount daycares in Montreal and at the Scuola Materna S.Benedetto in Siena, where the experiments have been conducted. The research reported in this pap...

This paper oescribes our oesi9n and implementation of ;m expert system for computer performance evaluation (CPR). We explain objectives in designing an expert system for CPE •. 6xplain why a specific expert system development shell was selected, describe the structure of the expert system that resulted f>::om the design. ano provide examples of the rules comprising the expert system. An operati...

in Case-Based Reasoning Alain MILLE, B eatrice FUCHS and Olivier HERBEAUX CPE-Lyon, LISA , 31 place Bellecour, 69 002 Lyon, France. e-mail : fam,bf,[email protected]

We study collections of identical, connected modules which may relocate relative to each other; such a collection is called a modular metamorphic system (see [CPE], [MKK], [PEC], [RV], [YMK]). While such a system must always remain connected, it is possible for such a system to reconfigure its shape through successive motions of individual modules, either by rotation and sliding (e.g., [MKK]) o...

On the occasion of the thirty-first anniversary of the publication of The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development by Hymer, the paper seeks to assess the relevance of Hymer’s prediction to our current understanding of the multinational company (MNC) and its role in world economic development. It argues that the largely ethnocentric type of MNC portrayed by Hymer is descripti...

The DNA sequence determinants which direct RNA Pol-II to the correct transcription start site (TSS) are only partly understood. Conserved DNA motifs (core promoter elements) or a conserved nucleosome architecture may play a role in TSS selection. A complicating factor is that promoters are quite variable in many respects. Some have very focused while others have highly dispersed initiation site...

The introduction of a ‡at tax is supposed to have several advantages. Administration and compliance costs are reduced, as well as incentives for tax evasion. Furthermore, positive employment and growth e¤ects are expected. Despite these advantages, a ‡at rate tax is not very popular in most Western European countries. The most important objection against a ‡at tax states that a ‡at rate tax wou...

5 Running title: Role of SigF and SigG in sporulation and CPE synthesis 6 * To Whom Correspondence Should be Addressed: 7 Bruce A. McClane 8 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics 9 447 Bridgeside Point II Building 10 450 Technology Drive 11 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 12 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 13 Phone: 412-648-9022 14 Fax: 412-624-1401 15 Email: [email protected] 16 Copy...

Educational reform is a dynamic process that continues to haunt small island developments. After the two bold steps taken recently in Mauritius, namely regionalisation and the abolition of ranking at CPE level, there now seems to be a pause except for continued construction of schools. Whilst these developments seemed to be initially welcomed by the population in general, it has raised a number...

Differential capacitance versus frequency curves simulated for different equivalent circuits representing different cases of anion adsorption have been analyzed. The analysis showed that in all cases with an ideal, homogeneous electrode surface, the real value of the differential capacitance, representing the sum of the double layer and adsorption capacitances (independent of frequency) could b...