For many years the economies of South East Asia were regarded as models for economic development. The four tigers, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, grew from low levels of income per head to among the highest in the world in a few decades. The newly industrializing economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had also started to grow at an extremely rapid rate. The Philippines had...

The times when music is played can indicate context for listeners. From the peaceful song for waking up each morning to the traditional song for celebrating a holiday to an up-beat song for enjoying the summer, the relationship between the music and the temporal context is clearly important. For music search and recommendation systems, an understanding of these relationships provides a richer e...

For several years, the University of Poitiers has gradually realized the strategic value, inescapable and irreversible, of the use of information processing. The mass of information dealt with and the number of users relying daily on this support require a reliable and performing infrastructure. Although they were the object of a moderate interest at the start, the problems resulting from how t...

Trend of Pakistani English Fiction Since Partition to 1970; is a multidimensional effort to not only to highlight the prevalent themes and trends of the fiction , but also to bring into limelight those legends of Pakistani English Fiction, who can be considered the founders of English fiction in Pakistan. The phenomenon includes a lot of names, which are now completely forgotten or are taken fo...

Infrared spectroscopy has been widely applied for the characterisation of various substances. Due to its sensitivity to the chemical information and architecture of the molecule, infrared spectroscopy can play an important role in new applications such as in the life-science field and not only in the traditional fields of physics and chemistry. Spectroscopic techniques are simple, reproducible,...

consider the random walk among n places with n(n - 1)/2 transports. we attach an exponential random variable xij to each transport between places pi and pj and take these random variables mutually independent. if transports are possible or impossible independently with probability p and 1-p, respectively, then we give a lower bound for the distribution function of the smallest path at point log...

We propose a new approach for implementing P-log using XASP, the interface of XSB with Smodels. By using the tabling mechanism of XSB, our system is most of the times faster than P-log. In addition, our implementation has query features not supported by P-log, as well as new set operations for domain definition.

Philosophers divide their "love of wisdom" in various ways. Three common sectors are, (1) what we know as real and important (ontology), (2) the way we get that knowledge (epistemology), and (3) how in the light of knowledge we conduct ourselves (ethics). The three are connected like the points of a triangle; they reinforce one another so that cultural foolishness or wisdom shifts with the time...