Many philosophers take it for granted that epiphenomenalism is obviously a dead end for an understanding of the human mind and its relation to the physical world and nothing but a counterintuitive theory of last resort. Others, by contrast, think that epiphenomenalism might be the way out of some of the severest problems discussed in the philosophy of mind during the past decades. Traditionally...

While current view technology assumes that the ISs do not change their schema, our Evolvable View Environment (EVE) project addresses this problem by evolving the view deenitions aaected by IS schema changes, which we coin view synchronization. In EVE, the view synchronizer rewrites the view deenitions by replacing view components with suitable components from other ISs. However, after such a v...

Diffusion in a comb-like structure, formed by a main cylindrical tube with identical periodic dead ends of cylindrical shape, occurs slower than that in the same system without dead ends. The reason is that the particle, entering a dead end, interrupts its propagation along the tube axis. The slowdown becomes stronger and stronger as the dead end length increases, since the particle spends more...

1Pee Dee Research and Education Center, Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences, Clemson University, 2200 Pocket Road, Florence, SC 29506-9706, USA; 2Soils and Crops Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2560 Hochelaga Blvd., Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada G1V 2J3; 3Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6420, USA. Technical C...

In this paper we present an algebraic model for the description of probabilistic and nondeterministic processes: PNAL (Probabilistic and Nondeterministic Algebraic Language), an extension of EPL, dee-ned by Matthew Hennessy, including a probabilistic choice operator. An operational semantics and a testing semantics for the language are presented. A denotational semantics for the nite subset of ...

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Let G be a group generated by a finite set A. An element g ∈ G is a strict dead end of depth k (with respect to A) if |g| > |ga1| > |ga1a2| > · · · > |ga1a2 · · · ak| for any a1, a2, . . . , ak ∈ A such that the word a1a2 · · ·ak is freely irreducible. (Here |g| is the distance from g to the identity in the Cayley graph of G.) We show that in finitely generated free soluble groups of degree d ≥...