The stories we tell about our lives unveil their content just as much as the lexical choices we make index a certain worldview, attitude, positionality, and relationship to reality. In essence, in narratives, individuals construct the self and denote personal identities. The available narrative identity studies have largely ignored the language employed by the bewitched while narrating their ex...

Measuring individual talent is a prerequisite of talent management. In order to do so, there are methods which have been established such as intelligence tests, general and individual tests, ratings scale and the literature of educational performance. Applying these methods are effective, if measurement error is low and validity is high. All current available methods are faced with issues relat...

In this paper we describe the distribution problems faced by one of the largest retailers in the distribution and sale of fast moving consumer goods in the U.K. The paper describes an initial solution method, which is then improved by a novel form of simulated annealing. A computational experiment for the improvement algorithm has been also carried out in order to illustrate the flexibility of ...

A signed graph is a graph whose edges are signed. In a vertex-signed graph the vertices are signed. The latter is called consistent if the product of signs in every circle is positive. The line graph of a signed graph is naturally vertexsigned. Based on a characterization by Acharya, Acharya, and Sinha in 2009, we give constructions for the signed simple graphs whose naturally vertex-signed lin...

The transfer of council estates into housing association (HA) ownership has transformed the structure of social housing provision across Britain; in half of English local authorities council housing is a thing of the past. From 1997, stock transfer extended beyond rural shire districts, with urban estates accounting for the majority of properties being handed to new social landlords. This study...

We introduce a meta-model based on formal languages, dubbed choreographic to study message-passing systems. Our framework allows us generalise standard constructions from the literature and compare them. In particular, we consider notions such as global view, local projections former latter. The correctness of views projected is characterised in terms closure property. number communication prop...

this paper deals with the philosophical aspects of nationalism and pan-islamism in view of dr. muhammad iqbal, a great poet and philosopher of sub-continent. the paper examines in an analytical way, how iqbal’s concept of nationalism is different from western brand of nationalism and coincided with jamal-u-din afghani’s ideal of pan-islamism. the paper discusses how iqbal reconciled his ideal w...

The classical bankruptcy problem (O’Neill, 1982) is extended by assuming that there are multiple estates to be divided. In the finite case, there are finitely many estates and the agents have homogenous preferences, i.e., constant utilities, per estate, but preferences may differ across estates. In the general case, i.e., the infinite estate problem, players have arbitrary preferences over an i...