Tomasello and colleagues have offered various arguments to explain why apes find the comprehension of pointing difficult. They have argued that: (i) apes fail to understand communicative intentions; (ii) they fail to understand informative, cooperative communication, and (iii) they fail to track the common ground that pointing comprehension requires. In the course of a review of the literature ...

Executive Summary: Amidst the intensified global focus on the ongoing conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian people, internal issues exist within each group. Cleavages exist within Israeli society both on a religious, socioeconomic, and even an ethnic level. These internal rifts play a role in preventing a peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. A case study evaluation of the Israeli...

In existing asynchronous distributed systems it is impossible to implement failure detectors which are perfect, i.e. they only suspect crashed processes and eventually suspect all crashed processes. Some recent research has however proposed that any “reasonable” failure detector for solving the election problem must be perfect. We address this problem by introducing two new classes of fail-awar...

Though the technique introduced by E. Kansa [7, 8] is very successful in engineering applications, there were no proven results so far on the unsymmetric meshless collocation method for solving PDE boundary value problems in strong form. While the original method cannot be proven to be fail–safe in general, we prove asymptotic feasibility for a generalized variant using separated trial and test...

As Internet services rapidly become an essential part of the global infrastructure, it is necessary for the protocols underlying these services to be robust and failsafe. To achieve this goal, protocol developers should be able to design, implement, simulate, visualize, and validate their work in a protocol development environment before deployment in the field. In this paper we describe the EN...

Does the Internet provide a failsafe against media consolidation in the wake of an easing of media ownership rules? This paper posits a model of news outlet selection on the Internet in which consumers experience cognitive costs that increase with the number of options faced. Consistent with psychological evidence, these costs may be reduced by constraining one’s choice set to “safe bets” famil...

The integrity of bonded structures is of paramount importance in the safe and reliable operation of aircraft equipment. Fuselages, helicopter rotor blades and nose cones are multilayered composite structures bonded together. The operational readiness and security of these units depend to a large extent on the integrity of the interfacial bonds. Adhesive and cohesive strength studies do not appe...

The Interface Description Language (IDL) is a notation for describing the characteristics of data structures passed among collections of cooperating processes in a programming environment. In this paper we discuss a mapping from IDL to C data structures and macro definitions that supports the full language and is type safe and runtime efficient, but is not particularly compile-time efficient no...

We present a sharing analysis for the functional language Safe. This is a first-order eager language with facilities for programmer-controlled destruction and copying of data structures. It provides also regions, i.e. disjoint parts of the heap where the programmer may allocate data structures. The analysis gives upper approximations to the sets of variables respectively sharing a recursive sub...