This paper addresses the role that novel concepts play in learning good theories. To concretize the discussion, I use Hinton’s kinship dataset as motivation throughout the paper. The standpoint taken in this paper is that the most compact theory that describes a set of examples is the preferred

, hence, the need for a reawakening of African cultural practices that are germane to global harmony. The paper intends to achieve this by cashing in on the numerous values in the practice of kinship in Africa that encourage shared values and discourage cultural prejudices as kinship is conceived

obvious "kinship" to the Deriche-filter the Shen-filter has been included in the investigations.

lme will not. The most obvious of these are models with a random genetic effect, e.g. a kinship matrix. The second class will be models

the feeling that something was wrong at home. For no obvious or explicable reason, instead of taking her intended train, she took a different one—travelling in the opposite direction—and went directly home. On arrival, she discovered that her brother, to whom she was extremely close, had just received a

The advent of IVF and advances in reproductive technolo-gies largely reflect the importance in our society ofbiological parenthood and genetic kinship. As illustrated in the controversy piece by Merle Spriggs,1 however, the same technology has confused our understanding of what makes a parent

, organized, transmitted, and politicized. Patterns of mental activity, rooted in the biology of brain functions and the contexts in which these develop, have direct effects on the elaboration of all domains of human culture. For instance, patterns of kinship organization are as much constrained

Knowledge Engineering (KE) and Software Engineering (SE) have similar goals: developing methods, techniques, and tools for the building process of either knowledge based systems (kbs) or (complex) traditional software. Due to this kinship it seems obvious to analyse to which extent both areas, KE

of human beings – has remained largely out of its field of view. Certainly, up until rather recently, anthropology offered rather few obvious connection points to adult education. Other than its important contribution of ethnographic research methodologies (Malinowski, 1922; Radcliffe-Brown, 1933; Risjord

linguistic thought. Knowledge of it would obviously make the under-standing of relations between words in the lexicon easier. The word stock of numerous languages throughout the world, just like the mythology of many peoples, bears witness to the importance of several funda-mental cognitive models