As a Prelude: Bringing Melancholia to Book

Bringing PowerPC Book E to Linux

The PowerPC Book E 1 architecture introduced the first major change to the PowerPC architecture since the original Green Book 2 PowerPC processors were introduced. Central to the Book E architectural changes is the MMU which is always in translation mode, even during exception processing. This presented some unique challenges for cleanly integrating the architecture into the Linux/PPC kernel. I...

Prelude: the arguments of this book

Institutional Christianity is in crisis about ‘sexuality’. Its detractors in the supposedly secularized and liberal climes of Northern Europe, who nonetheless yearn for what they call a satisfying ‘spirituality’, see this crisis as a sign of its failure to engage the contemporary world. Its conservative defenders, to be found mainly in religiously observant parts of North America and throughout...

Prelude to a Kiss

We consider expanding maps of the circle with an almost neutral fixed point c. In this setting the ergodic averages of a smooth observable A satisfy the Central Limit Theorem. If A(c) = 0 we show that the expectation and the variance behave as the square root of the multiplier of c times rapidly oscillating functions of parameters.

Backlash as prelude to managing managed care.

A Prelude to Standard and Standardization in Educational Systems

education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings ineducational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education.Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the present article tries to address this matter, due to the fact that we are in a situ...