General Relativity is a background independent theory which identify the gravitational interaction into the metric properties of the space-time and this peculiar nature makes very subtle even simple questions about its quantization. To deal with a canonical method for the fields dynamics necessarily involves the notion of a physical time variable, whose conjugate momentum fixes the Hamiltonian ...

lthough they are concepts with long psychoanalytic pedigrees, A narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder only recently have become topics of concern not just for psychoanalysis but for empirical research in psychology and psychiatry as well. For the most part, research in this area has comprised essentially descriptive or atheoretical attempts to identify and measure these constructs,' ...

Despite its unpopularity, the rectal route of paediatric drug administration remains interest especially in pre-school children as it can overcome some delivery challenges with oral and parenteral routes. Few studies have been conducted on use acceptability traditional dosage forms (i.e., suppositories, enemas gels) different parts world. It showed that barrier to adoption could be linked poor ...

This paper presents a genetic relevance optimisation process performed in an information retrieval system. The process uses genetic techniques for solving multimodal problems (niching) and query reformulation techniques commonly used in information retrieval. The niching technique allows the process to reach different relevance regions of the document space. Query reformulation techniques repre...

We describe and evaluate how a generalized natural language based reformulation resource in our TextMap question answering system improves web exploitation and answer pinpointing. The reformulation resource, which can be viewed as a clausal extension of WordNet, supports high-precision syntactic and semantic reformulations of questions and other sentences, as well as inferencing and answer gene...

We consider the possibility of using the hierarchical approximation to understand the continuum limit of a reformulation of the 3D Ising model initiated by Polyakov. We introduce several new formulations of the hierarchical model using dual or fermionic variables. We discuss several aspects of the renormalization group transformation in terms of these new variables. We mention a reformulation o...

We introduce a collection of polynomials FN , associated to each positive integer N , whose divisibility properties yield a reformulation of the Goldbach conjecture. While this reformulation certainly does not lead to a resolution of the conjecture, it does suggest two natural generalizations for which we provide some numerical evidence. As these polynomials FN are independently interesting, we...