AMERICAN ELECTION MEANDERS

American Decline in the Perspective of Democrats and Republicans: Otherization and Construction of American Identity in Election Speeches

American decline has received substantial attention from Iranian political and academic circles, with few analysts paying attention to the domestic debate on the concept. One of the overlooked aspects is the different ways that liberals and conservatives define and construct it. This difference is manifested in the perception of American identity and on the global role of the US, and intensifie...

Stamp Foldings, Semi-Meanders, and Open Meanders: Fast Generation Algorithms

By considering a permutation representation for stamp-foldings and semi-meanders we construct tree-like data structures that will allow us to generate these objects in constant amortized time. Additionally, by maintaining the wind-factor and applying an additional optimization, the algorithm for semi-meanders can be modified to produce the fastest known algorithm to generate open meanders.

Meanders and Motzkin Words

River Restoration and Meanders

Among the most visually striking river restoration projects are those that involve the creation of a new channel, often in a new alignment and generally with a form and dimensions that are different from those of the preproject channel. These channel reconstruction projects often have the objective of creating a stable, single-thread, meandering channel, even on rivers that were not historicall...

Cutting Degree of Meanders

We study the cutting problems of meanders using 2-Motzkin words. These words uniquely define elevated peakless Motzkin paths, which under specific conditions correspond to meanders. A procedure for the determination of the set of meanders with a given sequence of cutting degrees, or with a given cutting degree, is presented by using proper conditions.