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We discuss spacetime singularity resolution in the context of the gravity / gauge correspondence, for brane systems which give rise to gauge theories with eight supercharges and no hypermultiplets. The discussion is aimed at non-experts. Writeup of talk on [1] for proceedings of PASCOS-99 (10 16 Dec 1999, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe); also relevant to Way Beyond the Standard Models Conference (31 ...

The role of written corrective feedback (WCF) in the process of acquiring a second language (L2) has been an issue of considerable controversies over past decades. This article intends to provide a critical review of the increasing number of WCF studies thus far and to inspire new perspectives for future research. It starts by briefly tracing the theoretical positions on the role of WCF in L2 i...

Let L ∗ M denote the coproduct of the bounded distributive lattices L and M . At the 1981 Banff Conference on Ordered Sets, the following question was posed: What is the largest class L of finite distributive lattices such that, for every non-trivial Boolean lattice B and every L ∈ L, B ∗ L = B ∗ L′ implies L = L′? In this note, the problem is solved.

The nature and scope of festival studies is examined by compiling and analyzing a large-scale literature review of 423 research articles published in the English-language scholarly press. These have been annotated and their themes classified by reference to a pre-determined framework. Identification and discussion of three major discourses was enabled by this method, namely the roles, meanings ...

This paper investigates the techno-cultural issues surrounding Virtual Reality on the present-day Web, or 'Web3D', over the Internet by developing as its illustration a particularly UK (United Kingdom) cultural event, the St Albans Virtual Beer Festival, which mimicked the actual, real beer festival that ran in September 2000. Given the planned cultural focus and the short turnaround of time av...

Mathematics and science more usualy reach the general public through journalism, popularizations, fiction, biographies, plays, poems, and other forms of literary writing. Our workshop series, Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science, aims to create a critical yet supportive community of writers who share this goal. Like the first four highly successful BIRS workshops of this title, we brough...

Landscape is an important object for research on local culture from a cultural geographical perspective. It is the spatial nature of memory that has seen the integrative study of memory and landscape receive increased attention from human geographers. The Qiqiao Festival is a traditional folk festival in the Lingnan region of Southern China. After half a century of suppression, the Qiqiao Festi...

Within the event management literature relating to network development and festival sustainability there is a paucity of research that analyzes the perception of festival sustainability by festival leaders. After an initial review of the context of sustainability, network theory, and an identification of the changing set of competencies for effective leadership, an exploratory and explanatory i...