the purpose of this paper is to apply ibn-khaldun’s dialectic of asabiyya to explain the nature of relationship between war and the world order in the modern era via ‘macro structural change’. it is argued here that these changes in the world order in the modern times have a dialectical relationship with war. here, ibn-khaldun’s approach to historical change is applied for the explication of th...

Global climate change is projected to produce warmer, longer, and more frequent droughts, referred to here as “global change-type droughts”, which have the potential to trigger widespread tree die-off. However, droughtinduced tree mortality cannot be predicted with confidence, because long-term field observations of plant water stress prior to, and culminating in, mortality are rare, precluding...

Health information systems, such as Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), are suggested to be used as an intervention for addressing errors that arise in the medication process. Nurses are involved in all stages of the medication process; however, little is known about the impact of using CPOE on nursing practice. A grounded theory approach was employed to answer the question of "How do nur...

We consider the congruence a P s i=1 b i h i mod I where h 1 ; : : : ; hs are given modulo a zero dimensional ideal I. We give two polynomial time algorithms for determining a Grr obner basis, relative to an arbitrary term order, of the module M of solutions of the congruence, and, in particular, for nding its minimal element. These are based on a generalization of an algorithm of Faug ere et a...

Systems of rst-order theory change are motivated, developed, and shown to be strongly connected to revisable systems of dynamic semantics. Such systems are applicable in the analysis of dialogue contributions in a full account of information exchange. They remedy the following problem; \our approach to information change is eliminative rather than constructive. And we don't know yet how to do b...

We present a probabilistic method for change detection in text documents based on the biologically motivated principle of negative selection. Compared to standard checksumbased analysis, our statistical approach is able to locate and approximate the magnitude of changes. Further, the detection process can be distributed to any number of independent nodes resulting in a fault tolerant system. Th...