This is an attempt at reviving Kneale's version of the description theory of names, which says that a proper name is synonymous with a definite description of the form 'the individual named so-and-so'. To begin with, I adduce a wide range of observations to show that names and overt definites are alike in all relevant respects. I then turn to Kripke's main objection against Kneale's proposal, a...

o bjective: to describe the clinical characteristics, presentation and management of pardah pin inhalation in female teenagers of single center in northern india. m e thods: this was a prospective cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery of sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences located in northern india from january 2009 to december 2012....

We present an approach to personal disaster recovery, e.g. after a hard-disk crash, based not on an explicitly ex-ante defined recovery plan with a rigid backup regime, but rather on naturally accumulated and distributed sources of personal data, such as e-mails and their attachments. We aim to restore as much data as possible, and to provide means to organise it in a meaningful folder structur...

In this brief study, the stress is averaged over a two-dimensional rigid particle (disk) that is in contact with other objects via localized (point) contacts. In contrast to previous studies, the rotation dynamics of the particles is also taken into account here The stress contains four terms, (i) the static stress due to forces, (ii) the dynamic stress due to translational velocity fluctuation...

This paper aims to provide support for the view that individual concepts are basic to natural language semantics. First, the use of constant individual concepts allows us to maintain Kripke’s view of proper names as nondescriptional rigid designators in the face of problems created by so-called “empty names.” And second, the distinction between constant and variable individual concepts can func...

We give a partial positive answer to a conjecture of Tyurin ([28]). Indeed we prove that on a general quintic hypersurface of P every arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay rank 2 vector bundle is infinitesimally rigid.

We consider a single disk moving under the influence of a 2D viscous fluid and we study the asymptotic as the size of the solid tends to zero. If the density of the solid is independent of ε, the energy equality is not sufficient to obtain a uniform estimate for the solid velocity. This will be achieved thanks to the optimal Lp − Lq decay estimates of the semigroup associated to the fluid-rigid...