In this paper we propose to model a simplified wood shop. Following the work of Demaine, Demaine and Kaplan in [4] we limit the cutting tools of our carpenter to a circular saw. We extend that previous work to include a model of basic rules of carpentry and joinery. This model is then applied to the problem of building a polygon P by joining together strips of wood and cutting them with a circu...

Kaplan et al (1989) present an approach to machine translation based on co-description. In this paper we show that the notation is not as natural and expressive as it appears. We first show that the most natural analysis proposed in Kaplan et al (1989) cannot in fact cover the range of data for the important translational phenomenon in question. This contribution extends the work reported on in...

In this paper, I begin by describing and assessing the different criteria simple criteria used by financial economists to evaluate merger success. I then discuss the empirical evidence on mergers and acquisitions in the corporate finance literature beginning with stock return studies, moving to accounting-based studies, and finishing with some discussion of clinical studies. Next, I discuss wha...

It is argued that a subject's evidence consists of all and only the propositions that the subject knows. I Tradition has it that the main problems of philosophy include the nature of knowledge. But, in recent decades, questions of knowledge seem to have been marginalized by questions of justification. Thus, according to Crispin Wright, … knowledge is not really the proper central concern of epi...

Kaplan–Meier analyses can be used in many disciplines, e.g., agricultural engineering. Agricultural machinery and vehicles regarded as objects that ‘die’ because, like living creatures, they failed, although after repair until scrapped. This article presents an example of using the estimator to plot reliability function curves five different models Zetor farm tractors. The research shows median...