S-I-6. Pain and C-Fiber

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D E C I S I O N S a N D I N D E C I S I O N S

In 1989 jürgen habermas opined that Carl Schmitt was unlikely to have the same ‘power of contagion in the Anglo-Saxon world’ as had Nietzsche and Heidegger. Too deep and unbridgeable was the spiritual gulf that separated the disgraced éminence grise of the ascending Axis power—publicly, at least, a virtual taboo figure within the Federal Republic—from the more liberal climes and political sensi...

S Ecurity F or S Oftware - D Efined ( C Loud , Sdn and Nfv ) I Nfrastructures – I Ssues and C Hallenges

Cloud computing has transformed a large portion of the IT industry through its ability to provision infrastructure resources – computing, networking, storage, and software as services. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has transformed the physical underlying network infrastructure into programmable and virtualized networks. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has transformed physical telecom...

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F a S C I C U L I M a T H E M a T I C I

In 1996, Dontchev [14] introduced and investigated a new notion of non-continuity called contra-continuity. Recently, Baker et al. [6] offered a new generalization of contra-continuous functions via λ-closed sets, called almost contra λ-continuous functions. It is the objective of this paper to further study some more properties of such functions.