New upper and lower bounds are presented for a multi-dimensional generalization of bin pa king alled box pa king. Several variants of this problem, in luding bounded spa e box pa king, square pa king, variable sized box pa king and resour e augmented box pa king are also studied. The main results, stated for d = 2, are as follows: A new upper bound of 2.66013 for online box pa king, a new 14=9 ...

To many people, philosophy seems to be a difficult and daunting subject. Our research seeks to make the esoteric philosophical ideas and concepts more accessible to people in the modern world, and make philosophy learning an entertaining activity by allowing people to directly interact with virtual philosophers from the past. With Artificial Intelligence technology, we have created a virtual ph...

According to a view implicit in much of twentieth-century philosophy of language, linguistic communication conforms to the following model: a speaker has a thought—say, a belief that Fichte was a philosopher—which she would like to convey to her audience. This thought has a certain proposition as its content, a proposition which we might specify using the ‘that’-clause ‘that Fichte was a philos...

Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), Infection Prevention and Control, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Saudi Arabia; Infection Prevention and Control, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi ...