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Nearly all listeners consider the subjective aspects of music, such as its emotional tone, to have primary importance. But contemporary philosophers often downplay, ignore, or even deny such aspects of experience. Moreover, traditional philosophies of music try to decontextualize it. Using music as an example, this paper explores the structure of qualitative experience, demonstrating that it is multi-layer emergent, non-compositional, enacted, and situation dependent, among other non-Cartesian properties.

this paper, I have adopted as a starting point the distinction between informational and computational equivalence promulgated by Larkin and Simon (though reservations emerged regarding the use of the word "computational"). There is also a need to look at the models themselves. The arguments in this paper imply that existing modelling techniques can only be fully successful in capturing the informational aspects of graphical representations, while the true power and uniqueness of graphical representations resides in their computational aspects.

In Thinking Together, [Burke 2000], the notion of Thought Warfare and Anti-Warfare (TWAW) is introduced as a way of thinking about military conflict and its avoidance; it is foreseen as an increasingly important Defence issue in the twenty-first century. TWAW involves the dynamic interaction of allies ’ and adversaries ’ Thought Systems. Current Thought Systems involve entities capable of cognition, emotion and volition- typically (groups of) people- interacting via networks of information and data systems. This paper summarises the conceptualisation, ie the system of ideas, of the domain of Thought Systems presented in Thinking Together. Simple architectural techniques are used to assist the reader to develop an understanding of the distinguishing features of the concepts involved that is sufficient to grasp the nature of the arguments relating to Thought Systems and TWAW developed elsewhere. The relationship between TWAW and Network Centric Warfare (NCW) is explained: TWAW encompasses NCW. Unlike NCW, TWAW explicitly considers the interaction of will and feelings as well as knowledge, information and data in networked systems of people and machines in both the conduct of war and in the maintenance of peace. This affords

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Product data exchange is the precondition of business interoperation between Web-based firms. However, millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) encode their Web product data in ad hoc formats for electronic product catalogues. This prevents product data exchange between business partners for business interoperation. To solve this problem, this paper has proposed a novel concept-centric catalogue engineering approach for representing, transforming and comparing semantic contexts in ad hoc product data exchange. In this approach, concepts and contexts of product data are specified along data exchange chain and are mapped onto several novel XML product map (XPM) documents by utilizing XML hierarchical structure and its syntax. The designed XPM has overcome the semantic limitations of XML markup and has achieved the semantic interoperation for ad hoc product data exchange.

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The spread of the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is one of the biggest hurdles facing Tanzanian socio-economic development in the 21 st century (Kessy, Mashindano, Kiria, 2008). According to the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), there are an estimated 1.5 million Tanzanians living with HIV/AIDS today, with higher infection rates among women-- 7.7 percent compared to men at 6.3 percent (TACAIDS, 2009). The Tanzanian government in collaboration with international donors and non-profit organizations and other stakeholders has committed resources to educate people and construct suitable responses to fight the epidemic 1. While public knowledge about HIV/AIDS has remained high in Tanzania, the information is rudimentary and associated with stigma (Kessy et al, 2008; p. 151). Media gather information and construct particular narratives about HIV/AIDS. Public understanding of the disease is shaped by these narratives, which in turn influence future media representations. Media narratives employ a series of literary and symbolic devices including metaphors in order to engage audiences. Cultural representations and metaphors that are embodied and experiential allow media narratives to cognitively create cultural references in the

If you are asked whether technology influences human behaviour, do not hasten to answer in the affirmative. You may be accused of being determinist, and you could attract a swarm of other, rather derogatory, adjectives. If you express the belief that technology is a distinct realm of social life marked by its own specific rules, practices, and conventions, then you may be looked

Abstract: The use of computer mediated interaction systems worldwide has created not only a culture of usage, but also an entirely new mode of social interaction and thought. We argue that computer mediated interaction should be understood as neither oral nor written language, but rather as a post literate technological change of language itself. Following SHANK’s (1993) notion of the multilogue as a form of communication, and ONG’s (1982) pioneering work on examining orality and literacy in light of emerging understandings toward communication in these more technologically sophisticated times, we propose that systems of computer mediated interactions, especially those used for educational purposes, can only be understood using the combination of the logic and tools of qualitative research along with a semiotic understanding of the process itself. To explore these claims, the article examines computer mediated interaction within an educational online environment known as Teaching as Intentional Learning, or TIL (MOSS, 1998). Extensive use of patterns of data from TIL demonstrates that fundamental qualitative procedures are required to capture critical changes in teacher beliefs over time. These procedures align with notions of post literate communication, and the realization that both the modes of communication and the qualitative procedures used to capture them, are required to understand computer mediated learning and to build better modes for such interactions in the future. Key words: computer-mediated communication, online learning environment, mulitlogue, orality and literacy, situated cognition, semiotics, instructional design