Competitive behavior has often been presented as the ultimate engine of economic, technological, and scientific progress. Since all such progress is likely to imply some measure of social benefit, competition has been widely praised in modern western culture. However, competition can have very negative effects on social wellbeing. An early example is known as the "tragedy of the commons." The c...

Authors of articles published in medical journals are often busy researchers who cannot afford time devoted to writing. Though they are experts in their own therapeutic area, more often than not, researchers find it difficult to actually write and publish their research. Professional medical writers with their expertise in writing clear, concise, comprehensible, and coherent content are often a...

Quantitative measures of the syntactic and lexical complexity of natural language text – such as type-token ratio (TTR), Yule’s K (1944) or Yngve depth (Yngve, 1960) – play a central role in stylometric analysis. They have been used to investigate stylometric differences between writers and settle questions of disputed authorship (Stamatatos, 2009), to explore the characteristics of translated ...

The current study focused mainly on the role of linguistic complexity IELTS writing Task 2. In other words, it investigated differential effects two interrelated complexiti...

This paper presents the online handwriting recognition for Indian scripts. The primary concern of the approach is the modeling of human motor functionality while writing characters. This is achieved by looking at the whole pen trajectory where the time evaluation of the pen coordinates plays a crucial role. A low complexity classifier has been designed and the proposed similarity measure appear...

Minimization of a deterministic finite automaton(DFA) is a well-studied problem of formal language. An efficient algorithm for this problem is proposed by Hopcroft in 1970 and we have already learned this algorithm in the course. The goal of this writing is to discuss how this algorithm is carried out in time complexity O(MNlog2N)(where M is the size of alphabet and N is the number of states). ...

I suggest a revised hypothesis for future testing. The revised hypothesis assumes a threshold effect for bafflegab. That is, prestige is related to complexity up to a certain level, beyond which there is no gain. One possible reason is that simple writing is not representative of what readers perceive as scientific writing. Alternatively, it may be that the reader's inability to understand the ...

Traditional recovery mechanisms are not adequate in protecting databases from malicious attacks. A malicious transaction by virtue of writing on to the database can corrupt one or more data items; benign transactions reading these data items and writing on other data items can help spread the damage. To prevent the damage from spreading, it is important to assess the damage and confine it as qu...

Bad writing prospers in the humanities and social sciences, so we are spoilt for examples. In one famous case, Martha Nussbaum rounded on Judith Butler for her obscurity, arguing it was an insidious form of stylistic collaboration with the power structures targeted by her writings. Nussbaum’s review, ‘The Professor of Parody,’ raised the profile of a sentence already legendary as a result of Bu...