Although Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869) promotes conventional gender expectations and traditional values, at the same time it depicts heterosexual marriage as mercenary dispassionate. It proposes women’s choice to become self-sustaining a positive alternative marriage. Thus, narrative seems destabilize conventionality promotes: “spinsterhood,” independent career women, same-ge...

Contrart-to-duty imperatives are those which tell us what we ought to do if we violate some of our obligations. In this work, we give an inconsistencyfriendly framework for contrary-to-duty imperatives and introduce three semantics for it: static, dynamic and topological. The static semantics uses the standard modal paraconsistent approach whereas the dynamic semantics views violations as dynam...

The dogma regarding the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes has evolved over the last decade to view the islet -cell as the final determinant of whether glucose tolerance is normal or abnormal (1). While obesity and insulin resistance have reached epidemic proportions around the world, the presence of an appropriate compensation of insulin secretion (“healthy -cells”) allows daylong glycemia to be ...

A minivan fire in a K-Mart parking lot i illustrates several pertinent points common to vehicle fires: • The pavement underneath the minivan is ablaze. • The car in the immediate vicinity of the minivan catches fire demonstrating how an entire parking lot or underground parking garage of cars parked close together, as is the case in NYC, can burn serially. • The driver-side front tire of the mi...

We present in this talk different techniques for quickly answer graph problems where some of the nodes may be turn off. Typical graph problems are such as connectivity or distances between pair of nodes but not only. Emergency planing for such problems is achieved by pre-processing the graphs and by virtually preventing all possible subsequent node removals. To obtain efficient data structures,...