The Sculptured Tomb at Shefa ’Amar

Amar Bouali

We describe a set of modular extensions to our Auto/Graph veriication toolset for networks of communicating processes. These software additions operate from a common le exchange format for automata and networks, called fc2. Tool functionalities comprise graphical depiction of objects, global model construction from hierarchical descriptions, varr ious types of model reductions and of veriicatio...

GÜLDEN ÜLKÜMEN and AMAR CHEEMA

In four studies, the authors show that consumers’ savings can be increased or decreased merely by changing the way consumers think about their saving goals. Consumers can (1) either specify or not specify an exact amount to save (goal specificity) and (2) focus on either how to save or why to save (construal level). The results illustrate that specific goals help consumers save more when the sa...

Burglarizing Nietzsche’s Tomb

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...

Design for a Tomb

A design for a tomb does not ordinarily interest anyone but the designer and his client. There is, however, in the Museum Print Department a sixteenth-century tomb drawing of more than ordinary interest, since it presents a puzzle as rich in clues as a detective story. Once folded in half and bound in a scrapbook with the shop drawings of an unidentified atelier, this drawing shows an elaborate...

Etruscan women’s clothing and its decoration: the polychrome gypsum statue from the ‘Isis Tomb’ at Vulci