Alchemical scrolls associated with George Ripley are unusual documents which illustrate the pursuit of the Philosophers Stone. Scrolls vary from about 5 feet in length by 5 inches wide to over 20 feet long and about 3 feet wide. There are 16 scrolls in libraries in the UK and 4 in the USA. Ripley whose name is attached to the scrolls was a Canon of Bridlington in Yorkshire and lived from about ...

Rich Internet applications are becoming increasingly distributed, as demonstrated by the popularity of AJAX/Web 2.0 applications such as Hotmail, Google Maps, Facebook, and many others. A typical multi-tier AJAX application consists of a server component implemented in Java J2EE, PHP or ASP.NET and a client-side component executing in JavaScript. The resulting application is more performant and...

Page 146ff. Section 3.1.2.1 Different Strategies for Deriving Edge Correction Weights Both, “Stoyan edge correction” and “Ohser edge correction” were published by Ohser and Stoyan (1981). The Stoyan edge correction is also called “translation edge correction”, and the “Ripley edge correction” is also called “Isotropic edge correction”. An early summary of edge correction methods is given in Rip...

Overview In this very interesting paper, David Ripley brings together formal work on the semantics of vague predicates with experimental work on speakers’ reactions to statements involving such predicates. Working within a broadly Kaplanian framework—in which predicate expressions have characters, which together with contexts determine contents, which together with circumstances determine exten...