GEORGE VAUGHAN, aet. 36, whose occupation is that of an extra-tide waiter at the Custom House, in the month of July last, while making a sudden exertion with Ihis right arm, felt (as he expressed it) something snap below the collar bone, attended with a slight degree of pain. In a day or two afterwards, he perceived a small tumor on the fore part of the chest, about an inch and a half below the...

Successful legal action brings the defendant to account, and provides the opportunity for remedy, whether in the form of compensation to a person who has suffered, punishment of the wrongdoer, or the granting of injunctions (such as an order that a person or corporation refrain from certain conduct or that it undertake corrective action to set its wrongdoing right). Ultimately, it is litigation...

Robocode is a virtual environment in which in Java programmed bots compete. It is a perfect environment to apply and test Genetic Programming. This thesis describes an implementation which uses both grammar and trees to generate and mutate Java code. Populations, which evolve parallel, focus on different aspects of Robocode bots to refrain from converging to local maxima. The are mixed at the e...

Despite the fact that iterative solution techniques are recently gaining recognition among practitioners and finding their way into commercial software arena, the current state of the art in iterative methods remains unsatisfactory in many respects. Users of large production codes such as ANSYS, NASTRAN, ALGOR, SDRC, EMRC and ANSYS often observe many “bad” cases resulting from poorly conditione...

Scientific realists are committed to the claim that scientific discourse should be interpreted realistically, so that theoretical terms are understood as putatively referring expressions that have putative reference to empirical entities. In order to argue against realistic interpretation, I draw on an episode from the history of chemistry. One of the hypothetical entities of late 18th century ...

The principle of mutual trust underpins EU proceedings for the return child following abduction. On such a basis, courts Member State refuge shall where was habitually resident immediately before abduction being willing and capable to protect fundamental rights concerned. Therefore, they should not refrain from enforcing certified judgment requiring immediate child, even in situations there is ...

(for dissemination) Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) suggest that IT systems should be developed from coarse-grained, loosely coupled, business-aligned components, so called services. One way towards loose coupling is to refrain from hard-coding policies in the system and to represent them explicitly. In this deliverable we analyze where Web service policies fit within the big picture of S...

In this paper I compare two different the models of two-dimensional belief change, namely ‘revision by comparison’ (Fermé and Rott, Artificial Intelligence 157, 2004) and ‘bounded revision’ (Rott, in Hommage à Wlodek, Uppsala 2007). These revision operations are two-dimensional in the sense that they take as arguments pairs consisting of an input sentence and a reference sentence. Two-dimension...

Commitments to take or refrain from taking certain actions are indispensable elements in most forms of interaction and exchange. Even the purest form of spot-market transaction rests on commitments: the commitment of the state to value a piece of paper in future exchanges, and the commitment of the individual not to steal back what has been sold. As transactions spread out over time and become ...

How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage From an employer’s perspective a tournament should induce agents to exert productive activities but refrain from destructive ones. We experimentally test the predictive power of a tournament model which suggests that – within a reasonable framework – productive and destructive activities are not influenced neither by the number of ...