After a long and exhausting war between the representatives of the symbolic and connectionist approaches (this war stimulated, however, the clarification of the limitations and advantages of both approaches) a growing group of peace-makers emerged who tried to integrate the advantages of both approaches and to fill in the gap between them (Hendler, 1989a, Hinton, 1990, Barnden & Pollack, 1991, ...

Sensing of electrical quantities e.g. current and charges at micro and nano level is a challenging task for the researchers. Most of the electrical quantities produced as a result of natural phenomenon are very small and need infinitesimally small sensors to be detected. The authors of this paper are developing an appropriate micro/nano array sensor that is capable of sensing ionic currents in ...

The demand for documenting outcomes of extension programs continues to increase. This study examined challenges to program evaluation and accountability. The challenges were categorized into two levels--macro level (national) and micro level (grass roots or state level). The findings indicated several challenges--five macro and six micro level challenges. Based on the review and personal experi...

The present study investigates how a high-tech-small-firm (HTSF) can carry out an inter-organizational search of actors located at universities. Responding to calls to study how firms navigate multiple institutional norms, this research examines the different strategies used by a HTSF to balance adopted academic norm-sets, commercial imperatives and formal regulations to support formation of ne...

We consider the following signaling game. Nature plays first from the set {1, 2}. Player 1 (the Sender) sees this and plays from the set {A,B}. Player 2 (the Receiver) sees only Player 1’s play and plays from the set {1, 2}. Both players win if Player 2’s play equals Nature’s play and lose otherwise. Players are told whether they have won or lost, and the game is repeated. An urn scheme for lea...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive performance evaluation of three high speed cluster interconnects: InfiniBand, Myrinet and Quadrics. We propose a set of microbenchmarks to characterize different performance aspects of these interconnects. Our micro-benchmark suite includes not only traditional tests and performance parameters, but also those specifically tailored to the interconnects’ ...

One major limitation to addressing child undernutrition is a lack of the information required to target resources. This article extends the small-area estimation technique of Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw (2002, 2003) to jointly estimate multiple equations while allowing for individual-specific random errors across equations (in addition to clusterand household-specific random errors). Estimates...

Online communities amass vast quantities of valuable knowledge and thus generate major value to their owners. Where these communities are incorporated in a business as the main means of sharing ideas and issues regarding products produced by the business, it is important that the value of this knowledge endures and is easily recognized. For good management of such a business, risk analysis of t...