They also assessed their physical and neurological health, and carried out tests - including memory, language and abstract reasoning - to evaluate their condition.
The Cascalog system has combined the Cascading system for abstraction of advanced data processing on Hadoop and other systems, the Datalog declarative programming language that is well suited for expressing database queries in an abstract form, and the Clojure language to create a declarative language for queries that can be run on Apache Hadoop.
Superior mental faculties, such as language and the ability to engage in abstract problem solving, are the sort of explanations that are currently all the rage.
Many still do that, but as hip-hop has become a universal language of popular music, Brazilian rappers are broadening their themes, becoming more abstract and incorporating foreign musical influences.