i try to show that richard rorty, although is not a moral philosopher like kant, nerveless, has moral philosophy that must be taken seriously. rorty was not engaged with moral philosophy in the systematic manner common among leading modern and contemporary moral philosophers. this paper has two parts: first part, in brief, is concerned with principles of his philosophy such as anti-essentialism...

Mapping mean and variance of runoff in a river basin L. Gottschalk, I. Krasovskaia, E. Leblois, and E. Sauquet Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1022 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway Cemagref, 3 bis quai Chauveau, CP 220, 69336 Lyon Cedex 09, France Received: 8 December 2005 – Accepted: 19 January 2006 – Published: 9 March 2006 Correspondence to: L. Gottschalk (lars.gottschalk@...

In 1998 Crandall introduced a method based on coding theory to secretly embed a message in a digital support such as an image. Later Fridrich et al. improved this method to minimize the distortion introduced by the embedding; a process called wet paper. However, as previously emphasized in the literature, this method can fail during the embedding step. Here we find sufficient and necessary cond...

Marc Benhamou, Vladimir Fonov, Manuel Taso, Arnaud Le Troter, Michaël Sdika, Louis Collins, Virginie Callot, and Julien Cohen-Adad Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada, AixMarseille Université, CNRS, CRMBM UMR 7339, Marseille, France, APHM, Hôpital de la Timone, CEMEREM, Marseill...

Building on work of Tyagi (2005), we present expressions for calculating the corner ion, edge-center ion, and face-center ion Madelung constants for bulk sodium chloride crystals. In [1], Crandall gives a historical overview of attempts to evaluate the Madelung constant for bulk ionic crystals. For sodium chloride he gave an expression for this in terms of the following series.

California’s failure in restructuring its electricity market has been interpreted to mean that “deregulation will not work.” A number of studies have pointed to flaws in the California experience that -if corrected -should allow restructuring to be successful. This study compares the California experience with the actual, successful experience of several other states/countries to identify what ...

It is of interest in cryptographic applications to obtain practical performance improvements for the discrete logarithm problem over prime fields Fp with p of size ≤ 500 bits. The linear sieve and the cubic sieve methods described in Coppersmith, Odlyzko and Schroeppel’s paper [3] are two practical algorithms for computing discrete logarithms over prime fields. The cubic sieve algorithm is asym...

where 0< T <∞, A(u) is a linear operator in X for each u in an open subset W of Y , G is a nonlinear Volterra operator defined from C([0,T ];X) into itself, and the nonlinear map f is defined from [0,T ]×Y ×Y into Y . By a strong solution to (1.1) on [0,T ′], 0< T ′ ≤ T , we mean an absolutely continuous function u from [0,T ′] into X such that u(t)∈W for almost every t ∈ [0,T ′] and satisfies ...