asking about the place of religion in a democratic society refers straightforwardly to the kind of pluralism we adopt. given that intra-societal tensions mark out a democratic pluralistic society, then it seems that there is no doubt that there should be a place for religion and religious people in it. what is crucial for a democratic society is taking a suitable view on pluralism. there could ...

The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...

Finding a pattern which separates two sets is a critical task in discovery. Given two sets of strings, consider the problem to find a subsequence that is common to one set but never appears in the other set. The problem is known to be NP-complete. Episode pattern is a generalized concept of subsequence pattern where the length of substring containing the subsequence is bounded. We generalize th...

The current government policy is that scholars do not look for work anymore, but create jobs. Furthermore, the Minister of Education and Culture launched an independent campus carried four policies. second right students to study outside program, example become entrepreneurs. From government's Culture, entrepreneurship-based basic chemistry teaching materials are needed. purpose this research d...

’The two foundational methods, namely sequencebased software specification and Markov chain usage-based statistical testing, were developed in the 1990s by Jesse Poore and his colleagues at the University of Tennessee’s Software Quality Research Laboratory. Since their inception they have been successfully combined and applied to a variety of industry and government projects. Field applications...

In order to analyze what can plausibly be said about the relationship between dignity, human rights, and democracy, I will propose a basic assumption about human dignity (I) and then formulate five theses concerning the justification of democracy (II) which will allow me to conclude (III) that only when human rights are constitutionally established and effectively implemented democracy can be t...

The Whelk logic has been proposed as a foundation for logic program synthesis. Here, I interpret the rules of Whelk as rules of rst-order logic and derive them in Isabelle. Theoretically, this provides a means to understand the meta-theory behind Whelk, and its correctness. The interpretation suggests simpliications, corrections, and extensions. Practically, it provides a way to construct logic...

Sometimes, though rarely, we find symptoms of opium poisoning, specially in children who have lived for a few days, and theoretically it is possible to find symptoms of any other poison, but practically we see that these things are rarely used for infanticide, as almost all of them produce a certain amount of torture which the unhappy mothers do not wish to see. It is very rare also to find inj...

In this paper, we explore the use of over-complete spherical wavelets in shape analysis of closed 2D surfaces. Previous work has demonstrated, theoretically and practically, the advantages of overcomplete over bi-orthogonal spherical wavelets. Here we present a detailed formulation of over-complete wavelets, as well as shape analysis experiments of cortical folding development using them. Our e...