In the Half-Earth vision, conservationists, scientists, and policymakers work together with local communities without compromising interests of wildlife ecosystems. The vision requires decolonizing nonhuman species through marshaling ecocentric philosophy, animal sentience science, and, crucially, communities' support. While studies community attitudes to are accumulating, in context human-wild...

abstract despite the existence of long-standing ties between poetry and music, sanāyi, the famous poet of the sixth century, was a serious opponent unlike many other poets. he overtly blamed music as erotic art and composed poems blaming music. the author describes sanāyi’s opinion about music in this paper and explores the terms of his disagreement. in the meantime, social backgrounds of his o...

We demonstrate F, a system for building regression models over database views. At its core lies the observation that the computation and representation of materialized views, and in particular of joins, entail non-trivial redundancy that is not necessary for the efficient computation of aggregates used for building regression models. F avoids this redundancy by factorizing data and computation ...

We consider a variant of the view maintenance problem: How does one keep a materialized view up-todate when the view definition itself changes? Can one do better than recomputing the view from the base relations? Traditional view maintenance tries to maintain the materialized view in response to modifications to the base relations; we try to “adapt” the view in response to changes in the view d...

This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...