... with our approach are given with the examples below In general, however, in neither of these approaches has enough attention been paid to other interacting phenomena to explain the facts at the level ... m In some cases, the elements involved ina sloppy reading may not be contained inthe minimal clause containing the ellipsis (13) John told a man that Mary likes him, and Bill told a boy that ... addition to straightforward examples of parallelism like the above, there are also contrasts, exemplifications, and generalizations, which are defined ina similar manner The interpretation ofa number...
... Part I Part III contains advanced material; it is appropriate for a graduate course Chapter shows the application of network calculus tothe determination of optimal playback delays in guaranteed ... bypassed by restricting the input signal ina small range around the operating point This allows to use a linearized model whose accuracy is sufficient to evaluate performance measures of interest, ... of data admitted inthe network in such a way that the total amount of data in transit inthe network is always less than some positive number (the window size) We not know the exact mapping...
... such a way that the obligation is fulfilled This is not to say that if you have reason to act inacertain way you have an obligation to act in this way One may have reason to act inacertain way ... then, have reason to act inacertain way by virtue ofthe character or consequences of that act One may also have reason to act inacertain way by virtue of other considerations I have deliberately ... this point about obligation in terms of ‘having reason to act’ as opposed to ‘having a reason to act’ Philosophers tend to think ofa reason for acting inacertain way as something that is securely...
... this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by Laserwords Private ... can be said ofthe students in my graduate seminars on virtue at Yale inthe spring of 2000 and the fall of 2001, and at Oxford inthe fall of 2004 As the preceding narrative may suggest, the number ... for the value of non-human creatures and ofthe natural relations among them seems to many a mark of virtue One ofthe attractions ofa broad conception of moral virtue is that it tends to make...
... important to alleviate suffering initiated by human beings than to alleviate that caused by natural catastrophes Rather, human failure to respond can turn a natural catastrophe into an atrocity ... not have the same impact on victims and their families as broad rankings 16 The Atrocity Paradigm Laurence Thomas likewise is at pains to explain, in his examination of American slavery and the ... “Against Marriage and Motherhood” (11, [1996]), “Rape as a Weapon of War” (11, [1996]), and “Addendum to ‘Rape as a Weapon of War,’” (12, [1997]) An ancestor of part of chapter 10 appeared in...
... for instance, an insect, standing at the head ofthe articulated animals, is, inthe larva state, a true annelid, or worm, the annelida being the lowest inthe same class The embryo ofa crab ... vegetables and animals; though we may not be able to range all the species, as constantly advancing ina single line, there is certainly the general appearance ofa scale, beginning with the most ... as the huge saurians and the frogs Deprive these latter animals, intheir lower stage, of all access tothe light, and they will not advance totheir higher stage Put a tadpole into a perforated...
... the mainstay ofthe orthodoxy approach tothe human-capital based firm we discuss them in detail as a spring-board to developing a more satisfactory model ofthe human-capital based firm inthe ... neoclassical model is as lacking in substance as the firm Kenneth Boulding made the point that “[t]his type of analysis [the theoryofthe firm] is exactly analogous tothe analysis ofthe reactions ofa ... range of behaviours that has characterized their pre-glacial ancestors and also the Neanderthals The main difference, and one that was to become increasingly evident as time went by, was that as...
... with their checking accounts For each account the bank wants a list showingthe balance at the beginning of t1~e period, the number of deposits and withdrawals, and the final balance." Organization ... rare to find the following complex nominals inthe same programming problem all of them referring tothe same concept: "the previous balance," "the starting balance," "the old balance" "the balance ... termed "passive frames" contain what the system remembers ofa given topic At the beginning ofthe parsing process, the active frames contain nothing At the end ofthe process, the meaning of the...
... as affirming that the blind cannot imagine According to Diderot, images require colour, and colour being totally wanting tothe blind the nature oftheir imagination was to him inconceivable The ... numerical ratios has led totheir being all regarded as actual manifestations of transmutations proceeding in one real thing, occasionally there is a seeming break inthe catena; no phenomenon can ... undergoes the change and sustains the flow To understand a thing is to discover how it operates The eternal forms of things are laws of natural action Such are the law of gravitation, the laws of optics...
... Federal Reserve Chari and Jagannathan (1988), Jacklin and Bhattacharya (1988) also model information-based bank runs Intheir models, a depositor’s decision to run on a bank leads to an information ... correlation, and their interactions Liability side contagion arises when the failure ofa bank leads tothe failure of other banks due toa run by their depositors or a liquidation oftheir liabilities ... Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation inaTheoryof Systemic Risk Abstract Two aspects of systemic risk, the risk that banks fail together, are modeled and their interaction examined:...
... inthe Standing Hypotheses at the beginning of Part II; they define an open set inthe space of C embeddings of X into itself Inthe next group are λ and α, two constants that appear in (A2 ) and ... formula ofthe H´non e maps In going from the second tothe third box, our aim is to take this mathematics toa more general setting, so that it can be leveraged inthe analysis of attractors ... b-horizontal A proof of Lemma 3.10 is given in Appendix A. 11 3.9 Attractors arising from interval maps We explain how to deal with the endpoints of I inthe case where I is an interval Let f ∈ M By assumption,...
... with data, and that has come at the expense of judgment Rather than maintaining the ideal of speaking truth to power, intelligence has focused on gathering information In many ways, this is a function ... mathematical theory might quantify intelligence and so make it more precise and amenable to testable prediction The mathematician and engineer Claude Shannon, in his pathbreaking The Mathematical Theory ... Newsday Theories of intelligence may be explored in three main ways—historical, mathematical, and psychological A historical theory looks at intelligence inthe past, the present, and the future Intelligence...
... identified as the judicial capital ofthe world, as the Peace Palace and affiliated institutions are located there One mental map in Luo (2009) indicates the dichotomy of day and night and of water and ... such as the Relief celebrations in Leiden and the legend of Dami- etta in Haarlem, or periods, like the apartheid in Cape Town and the colonial era in Jakarta All in all, history, in multiple layers, ... between the Singhalese and Tamils have escalated This was the beginning ofa civil war.6 The Tamil population inthe north-east of Sri Lanka aims to get their own state The Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
... behavior The actual timing and shape of trading patterns in financial markets are determined by a number of factors and parameters that are exogenous tothe model, such as the rate of arrival of ... that the daily patterns in trading volume and returns are quite profound In particular, there is heavier trading at the beginning and end ofthe trading day than there is inthe middle ofthe ... , T, are independently distributed random variables, each having a mean of zero The payoff can be thought of as the liquidation value ofthe asset: any trader holding a share ofthe asset in period...
... well in his current position as secretary of an agricultural association Diana was the last to arrive, an hour later than any ofthe others, which hardly surprised anyone Diana had always been a ... Plato and his contemporaries described Athenian democracy was seen as a warning against democracy Democracy was the ‘belly’ taking over the ‘head’, a state of direct popular in uence that, if anything, ... many years.’ ‘And just for appearances’ sake,’ Harry interpolated ‘People cast their vote inthe ballot box and then have to wait and see what their vote does in terms of policy-making Not a...
... section, at taboos inthe Neotropics, I tried to demonstrate that the valuation ofcertain animals as food varied according to various material factors that affected the costs involved in obtaining them, ... has worked ina diversity of ways, as the Achuara case suggests The Achuara today tend to regard such animals as tapir, deer, 14 Overview of Trends in Dietary Variation and capybara as inedible ... ofthe American diet With the increasing centralization ofthe U S food industry, a process that dates back tothe late 19th century, there came about an increasing amalgamation of political and...
... 1994) Another reason why stratificational grammar was important was that it aimed to be a model of human language processing - a cognitive model The 1970s Seeing the attractions of both valency theory ... sociolinguistic information into the grammar, by indicating the kind of person who is a typical speaker or addressee, or the typical situation of use Treating utterances as part ofthe grammar has ... of meaning All these elements, including the words themselves, are 'concepts' inthe standard sense; thus a WG diagram is an attempt to model a small part ofthe total conceptual network of a...
... mechanism Again we may say ofthe receptors, the effectors, ofthe intellect and the other capacities that they are primarily safety-seeking tools Again, as inthe hungry man, we find that the ... gratified cease to exist as active determinants or organizers of behavior They now exist only ina potential fashion inthe sense that they may emerge again to dominate the organism if they are ... retains his childish attitudes toward the world That is to say, a neurotic adult may be said to behave 'as if' he were actually afraid ofa spanking, or of his mother's disapproval, or of being...
... particular, many standard results in semigroup theory are proved here ina novel way, often using transformation monoid ideas and in particular an analogue of Schur’s lemma The first part ofthe ... representations of groups via Green’s theory [33, 31] and thetheoryof Munn and Ponizovsky [22, Chapter 5] The tools of orbitals and orbital digraphs are introduced, generalizing the classical theory ... powerful, and in particular has been very successful in dealing with problems in automata theory, especially those involving classes of languages However, the philosophy of Krohn-Rhodes is that the task...