Knowledge of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has varied in response to past climates can inform prediction future AIS behaviour. Water stable isotope records from ice cores tradi...

I am grateful to the editors of Journal Legal Pluralism for asking me offer some reflections on contributions Sally Engle Merry anthropology law. Rather than a more tradi...

Leaders of today's Catholic ministries are entrusted with an organizational responsibility to promote, sustain and remain true to Christ's healing ministry and the Catholic tradi- tion of caring for and nurturing people in need. Mission integration is a dynamic pro- cess that sets the context for the ministry of service, embedding mission into organizational practices, policies, structures and ...

ABSTRACf Most of the other chapters in this volume are devoted to various parametric models arising in the classical sequential analysis pertaining to statistical decision theory including sequential testing as well as {point and interval} estimation problems. Though of relatively recent origins, various nonparametric models have also been worked out for these tradi tional problems in sequentia...

Following recent technological changes, the archival profession will reach moment of surpassing previously dominant mediaspheres, in which sounds and images were stored traditionally located archives. This is not to say that tradi?tional archives are needed anymore - on contrary. In this article, I try bring out possibilities upgrading traditional with help blockchain technology analyse complex...

We investigate the combination of Augmented Reality (AR) with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) to assist with training for manual assembly tasks. Our approach combines AR graphics with adaptive guidance from the ITS to provide a more effective learning experience. We have developed a modular software framework for intelligent AR training systems, and a prototype based on this framework that t...

To what extent is distr ibution beneficial to the search quali ty and computational resources used by a genetic algori thm execution? Most distr ibuted genetic algorithms rely on communicating genetic informat ion, in the form of individual solutions, between concurrently evolving populations. Another way of effectively using the additional information generated by the parallel executions is th...

Evaluation of educational systems is a difficult an d often subjectiveprocess.Moreandmorecomputerized educational systems are being proposed, many find t heir ways into the classrooms and already are forming ne w generations of pupils. However, it is risky to leav e the actual validation of these new systems to a trial-a nd-error technique, especially when the involved target are humans. We pro...