Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: INVESTIGATING CHARACTER FOCALIZATION IN CHILDREN’S NOVELS -- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Character Focalization -- Chapter 3: Focalizing Structures -- Chapter 4: Character Focalization Selection and Development -- PART II: PERCEPTUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 5: Perceptual Facet Developments: Seeing and Hearing Experiences -- Chapter 6: Psychol…
Chapter 1: Peer Review in Academic Settings -- Chapter 2: The Genre of Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 3: Pragmatics and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 4: Politeness and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 5: Evaluation and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 6: Learning to Do Peer Review -- Chapter 7: Implications for Reviewer Training -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book examines reports that are wri…
Invited Papers -- Coordinating Teams in Uncertain Environments: A Hybrid BDI-POMDP Approach -- Agents – The Challenge of Relevance to the IT Mainstream -- Agent-Oriented Programming -- Goal Representation for BDI Agent Systems -- AF-APL – Bridging Principles and Practice in Agent Oriented Languages -- Agent Platforms and Tools -- A Toolkit for the Realization of Constraint-Based Multiagent …
Foundations of Dialogues -- Some Preliminary Steps Towards a Meta-theory for Formal Inter-agent Dialogues -- Towards a Formal and Implemented Model of Argumentation Schemes in Agent Communication -- Formal Dialectic Specification -- A Modal Semantics for an Argumentation-Based Pragmatics for Agent Communication -- Layered Strategies and Protocols for Argumentation-Based Agent Interaction -- Bel…
Ontologies for the Semantic Web -- Web Services Overview for Net-Centric Operations -- Metadata Concepts to Support a Net-Centric Data Environment -- Distributed Geospatial Intelligence Integration and Interoperability Through the Gidb® Portal System -- Analyzing Intelligence Data -- Linking Military Systems with Simulations and Intelligent Agents Through Web Services to Support Courses of Act…
Origins and Education -- Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory -- Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators -- Properties of Pi Mesons -- Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers -- Neutrinos I -- CP Violation -- Neutrinos, II -- Experiments with the LEP e+e? Collider.Embedded in an autobiographic framework, this book retraces vividly and in some depth the golden years of particle physics as…
Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary -- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys -- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller -- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands -- Botkin: Letters on Spain -- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy -- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions -- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border.Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian wri…
The Enigma of Good and Evil -- A Question of Interest? Between Good and Evil in Instinto de Ines by Carlos Fuentes -- Being’s Wound: Evil and Explanation in the Killer Inside Me -- A Paradox of Love: The Manifestation of Life and the Moral Sentiment in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Her Son’s Wife -- Levinas’s Language -- Sympathy for the Devil? A Historical Tour of Literature and Cultural R…
Introduction -- 1: Segregation and space -- 2: Turmoil and unrest -- 3: Identity politics and change -- 4: Resistance and transgression -- 5: Benevolence and malevolence -- 6: Fantasy and comedy -- 7: Trends and Directions .This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity. A particularly attractive aspect of this study is the f…
Introduction by Rachel Schiff and R. Malatesha Joshi -- Critical Components of Phonemic Awareness Instruction and Intervention: Recommendations for Teacher Training and for Future Research by Stephanie Al Otaiba, Jill Allor, Krystal Werfel, and Nathan Clemens -- Word Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties and Disabilities by Carolyn A. Denton and Keri M. Madsen -- A cognit…