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The economic and social thinking of Latin America was enriched by the Latin American Development School(LDS). That is the name given in this essay to the contributions from distinguished social scientists who, during fif...

"Successful utilization of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in the space sector implicates two aspects: First, an understanding of the process inherent characteristics has to be developed, where the anisotropic behavior of ma...

Institute of Medicine National Academy Press, $44.95, pp 364 ISBN 0 309 07280 8 See http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10027.html for ordering details Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] Even with cat...

Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theor...

This study analyzes Argentina’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) initiative, driven by IDERA a community of practice, through a system thinking approach. Using Soft Systems Methodology, it explores organizat...

Agents repesent a new paradigm for developing software applications. In spite of the interest of this particular way of looking at problems, there is considerable discrepancy on exactly what is an agent and which are the...

This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary un...

Abstract An individual has a theory of mind if he imputes mental states to himself and others. A system of inferences of this kind is properly viewed as a theory because such states are not directly observable, and the s...

Bartlett viewed thinking as a high level skill exhibiting ballistic properties that he called its “point of no return”. This paper explores one aspect of cognition through the use of a simple model task in which huma...

Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is, how...

"In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations - ones in ...

If we are eventually to understand the capability of higher organisms for perceptual recognition, generalization, recall, and thinking, we must first have answers to three fundamental questions: 1. How is information abo...