My Lovely C-Section

Requiem for my lovely.

Thirty-five years ago, B.F. Skinner (1976) lamented a decreasing trend in the prevalence of cumulative records in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( JEAB). The editorial began with the two memorable lines, ‘‘Evidently we have not long to wait for an issue of JEAB without a single cumulative record! I shall not miss the records so much as the kinds of experiments that could s...

My father and mother My brothers and sisters My lovely son Ahmed My friends All paediatrician Our lovely children

To My Dear Parents , & To My Lovely Mahsa

Acknowledgement Although developing Aryan was my dissertation project, I had the advantage of having many people by my side without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Hereby, I would like to acknowledge each of their contributions in the process. Professor Cynthia Breazeal is the first person I owe my deepest appreciation to. She had a major role to get this project up and running. When I f...

To my dear parents and to my lovely wife

The research reported in this thesis proposes, designs and tests the Quality-Oriented Adaptation Scheme (QOAS), an application-level adaptive scheme that offers high quality multimedia services to home residences and business premises via local broadband IP-networks in the presence of other traffic of different types. QOAS uses a novel client-located grading scheme that maps some network-relate...

Lovely pairs of models

We introduce the notion of a lovely pair of models of a simple theory T , generalizing Poizat’s “belles paires” of models of a stable theory and the third author’s “generic pairs” of models of an SU -rank 1 theory. We characterise when a saturated model of the theory TP of lovely pairs is a lovely pair (that is when the notion of a lovely pair is “axiomatizable”), finding an analogue of the non...