1. Solutions. When von Neumann and Morgenstern first defined the solution of a cooperative game, they did so in the context of characteristic function games with side payments. They defined a solution to be a set S of imputations such that: (a) " N o / contained in S is dominated by an x contained in S". (b) "Every/ not contained in S is dominated by some x contained in S". Condition (a) is cal...

belief in the lofty positions and excellences of the shi’īte imams (a.s.) and having faith in their miraculous acts and dominion over the world affairs underlies the authentic doctrine of unconditional guardianship (wilāya al-takwīnī). when the imams’ devotees try to maintain a demigod status for the imams in line with this – possibly loving and devotional – belief beyond the conventional limit...

A supervised classification method for temporal series, even multivariate, is presented. It is based on boosting very simple classifiers: clauses with one literal in the body. The background predicates are based on temporal intervals. Two types of predicates are used: i) relative predicates, such as “increases” and “stays”, and ii) region predicates, such as “always” and “sometime”, which opera...

Molecular characterization of aerosol-derived water soluble organic carbon using ultrahigh resolution electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry A. S. Wozniak, J. E. Bauer, R. L. Sleighter, R. M. Dickhut, and P. G. Hatcher School of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 1346, Gloucester Point, VA 2306...