This paper examines the various representations of ‘nature’ present in Decoder (1984), a German experimental cyberpunk film that was inspired by William S. Burroughs’ thoughts on utilising tapes as revolutionary weapons. Though is not one would easily associate with labels, such ‘green’ or ‘environmental’, signs and images represent refer to non-human life are omitted. Through close reading fil...

I argue that linguistic meanings are instructions to build monadic concepts that lie between lexicalizable concepts and truth-evaluable judgments. In acquiring words, humans use concepts of various adicities to introduce concepts that can be fetched and systematically combined via certain conjunctive operations, which require monadic inputs. These concepts do not have Tarskian satisfaction cond...

This report presents a proof to support the correctness of the schedulability test for self-suspending real-time task systems proposed by Jane W. S. Liu in her book titled “Real-Time Systems” (Pages 164165). The same concept was also implicitly used by Rajkumar, Sha, and Lehoczky in RTSS 1988 (Page 267) for analyzing self-suspending behaviour due to synchronization protocols in multiprocessor s...

Interruptions are common in joint activities like conversations. Typically, interrupted participants suspend the activity, address the interruption, and then reinstate the activity. In conversation, people jointly commit to interact and to talk about a topic, establishing these commitments sequentially. When a commitment is suspended, face is threatened and grounding disrupted. This article pro...

In the paper "Timing Analysis of Fixed Priority Self-Suspending Sporadic Tasks" published in ECRTS 2015, a MILP formulation is provided to compute an upper-bound on the worst-case response time (WCRT) of one selfsuspending task running concurrently with a set of higher priority non-self-suspending tasks. Section VI of that paper extends the MILP formulation to the case where the higher priority...

two oriental and western symbols are recorded in the memory of the world. kamal al-din behzad (1460-1535.a.d./ 865-942 a.h.) is the painter of iran's golden era and leonardo da vinci (1452-1519.a.d./ 857-925 a.h.) is the verstile artist of italian renaissance. the life stories of these two artists are more or les similar. during childhood, both experienced a hard time and during youth and adult...

BACKGROUND Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a difficult to treat disorder characterized by ambivalence towards recovery and high mortality. Eating symptomatology has a sort of adaptive function for those who suffer from AN but no studies have to date investigated the relationship between the reported meanings of AN and patients' clinical characteristics. Therefore, we aimed to perform a factor analysis...