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There is an increasing interest in international relations to engage with religious actors for peacebuilding purposes. This development is an example of what is referred to as a restorative narrative, which responds to a current 'resurgence' of ...

An interesting, discrete simulation model tends to contain numerous nontrivial interactions among its components. When writing such a simulation in an event-based language (in this discussion, Simula), one must "engineer" these interactions by event ...

We define a knowledge representation and inference formalism that is well suited to natural language processing. In this formalism every subformula of a formula is closed. We motivate this by observing that any formal language with (potentially) open ...

The Weibull Field Defect model for commercial software is developed from initial stochastic equations, and then modified to account for the perturbation in field reporting of failures that occurs around the time of a next release. The major cause of the ...

Um dos problemas básicos fundamentais da discriminação de preços que uma empresa enfrenta é a questão da identificação do consumidor. A crescente transformação digital, veio alterar a estratégia de negócio das empresas que operam no ambiente ...

This dissertation project is a media archaeological inquiry into a long-term cultural dialectic between the rise of intelligent automata and the rise of Western discourses of Orientalism. I organize my analysis around the archetypal theme of the chess-...

Exploring video games with a communicative lens is a growing genre of research, one which this project aims to contribute to by examining Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 with an in-depth digital ethnography. By playing through the game and ...

Critics often deem John Ruskin's theory of the pathetic fallacy a prohibition on projections of human-like qualities onto nature, including animals. This supposed prohibition has seemed not only anthropocentric by denying real resemblances between ...

This study describes ways in which high school mathematics teachers in Erie County, NY were using computers and calculators in their mathematics teaching during the 1989-1990 school year, their attitudes toward such use, their level of knowledge about ...

Theatre scholars and practitioners alike recognize the contributions of Jerzy Grotowski. His avant-garde, experimental, site-specific, immersive, participatory, ritual, and laboratory theatre research, signal turning points in world theatre. In ...

The geometric surface model generated by common CAD tools is often “dirty” (cracks, small gaps, small holes, surface penetration, inconsistent surface orientation, bad edge-face connectivity, etc.). Also, problems of component overlapping, island ...

Acronyms are a significant and the most dynamic area of the lexicon of many languages. Building automated acronym systems poses two problems: acquisition and disambiguation. Acronym acquisition is based on the identification of anaphoric or cataphoric ...

For $n, k, d\in {\bf Z}\sp+$ such that n is a multiple of $d, \Pi\sbsp{n}{d,k}$ is the poset of partitions of $\lbrack n\rbrack = \{ 1, 2,\..., n\}$ whose block sizes are divisible by d and are at least dk, ordered by refinement, with bottom element $\ ...

Modern technology deals with complex problems which are often described in terms of discrete-valued variables. Furthermore, the values of these variables may be subject to important discontinuities. These systems, called discrete event systems (DES), ...