as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

The purpose of this issue of Hazard is to provide an overview of injury deaths in Victoria based on the Victorian Coroner’s Facilitation System. Although these data are not timely, they highlight outstanding causes and identify trends and changes over time to an extent unavailable from other current sources. It updates Hazard 11, June 1992 and provides an insight into the depth of timely data s...

play provides opportunities for exploration, experimentation, and manipulation that are essential for constructing knowledge and contributes to the development of representational thought. during play, children examine and refine their learning in light of the feedback they receive from the environment and other people. it is through play that children develop their imaginations and creativity....

Verification of logic programs with dynamic scheduling. My first work in this area was on programs using delay declarations, in particular, proving termination and absence of runtime errors for such programs [5, 6, 1, 28, 33]. I have developed a more abstract view of dynamic scheduling by defining the so-called input-consuming derivations [8, 28, 32, 34]. More powerful termination conditions we...

This chapter presents several classes of fusion problems which cannot be directly approached by the classical mathematical theory of evidence, also known as Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST), either because Shafer’s model for the frame of discernment is impossible to obtain, or just because Dempster’s rule of combination fails to provide coherent results (or no result at all). We present and discuss...

We investigate the supersymmetric index of N=2, 3 SU(n) supersymmetric Yang-Mills Chern Simons theories at level k by using the brane configuration with a (p, q)5-brane. We can explain that the supersymmetry breaking occurs when k < n in terms of the s-rule for Type IIB branes. The supersymmetric index coincides with the number of the possible supersymmetric brane configurations. We also discus...

This article gives an algorithm for the exact implementation of Dempster’s rule in the case of hierarchical evidence. This algorithm is computationally efficient, and it makes the approximation suggested by Gordon and Shortliffe unnecessary. The algorithm itself is simple, but its derivation depends on a detailed understanding of the interaction of hierarchical evidence.

America’s electricity generation industry has historically been almost entirely dependent on the burning of coal. This necessity to burn coal so as to provide vital energy for our nation will likely continue for several decades into the future. Due to the large volumes of ash generated by the burning of coal and the toxins associated with coal ash, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ...