My vintage cadillac sweeps through wrought iron gates and makes its way down the grand tree-lined avenue, a canopy of cool green above, with just a glimpse of golden stone in the distance. Then suddenly the building is revealed – a stunning Victorian Gothic façade, heavy oak doors, soaring towers and intricate gargoyles, all bathed in summer sunshine. I drive on past the original Jacobean Wing ...

Our primary medical training is second to none in the world and we leave our Alma Mater very well equipped medically, butwith no training in the administration of these services or of our personal life unless we have had an outside hobby which has filled this gap in our education. The College of General Practitioners has realized that this gap exists and over the years has been building up a se...

“O homes were very decorative, full of...pattern... color....The people used this as a means of brightening their life,” said Jacob Lawrence, attributing his love of vibrant color design to his youth in Harlem (1). When asked if anyone in his family was artistically inclined, he would say no, “It’s only in retrospect that I realized I was surrounded by art. You’d walk Seventh Avenue and look in...

The integration of EMST into the complete query-rewrite rule system enables us to eliminate the unnecessary complexity introduced by EMST in the query graph. EMST uses bcf adornments, can push equality and condition predicates, can push local and join predicates , adorns and transforms queries in one phase, can handle correlations, and is extensible. We have developed a cost-based heuristic to ...

BACKGROUND Subsistence hunting is a traditional practice providing food and many other goods for households in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. Economic, demographic, and cultural change in this region drive wildlife habitat loss and local extinctions. Improving our understanding about current practices of wildlife use may support better management strategies for conserving game species...

Philosophers often discuss the difference between theories that describe space as absolute (for example, Newton) or as relational (for example, Leibniz). Node and link hypertext creates a relational space, while most spatial hypertext either works with an absolute (background or container) space, or combines this with Leibnizian link networks. There is, however, a third sort of space, which we ...

In January 2017, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily barring entry of immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries to the United States. I am a U.S. citizen and do not belong to any of the banned countries. I was raised as a Muslim, but now identify as an atheist. In fact, many of my Muslim friends and family members who know about my apostasy think of me as a traitor and...

We present a method for deriving an Earley recognizer for multiple context-free grammars with the correct prefix property. This is done by representing an MCFG by a Datalog program and applying generalized supplementary magic-sets rewriting. To secure the correct prefix property, a simple extra rewriting must be performed before the magic-sets rewriting. The correctness of the method is easy to...