Bishop's Move

Advocacy: bishops press for immigration reform.

A q - QUEENS PROBLEM V . THE BISHOPS ’ PERIOD

Part I showed that the number of ways to place q nonattacking queens or similar chess pieces on an n× n square chessboard is a quasipolynomial function of n. We prove the previously empirically observed period of the bishops quasipolynomial, which is exactly 2 for three or more bishops. The proof depends on signed graphs and the Ehrhart theory of inside-out polytopes.

The Effect of Teachers' Follow-up Move Approach (F-move) on Iranian EFL Learners' Conversation Quality

The present paper investigated the effect of teacher’s follow‐up move approach on Iranian EFL learners’ conversation quality. Ninety students were selected in a senior high school in Poldokhtar, Iran. Through an oral test sixty out of ninety students whose scores were between one standard deviation (SD) above and below the mean were selected as the participants of the study. Then they were divi...

Phylogeny and Signal Diversity in Widowbirds and Bishops

Although sexual selection for elaborate signals is well documented in numerous species, the extreme diversity in signal design and expression in many taxa is largely unexplained. This thesis explores phylogenetic, mechanistic and ontogenetic explanations of divergence in two classic condition-dependent signal traits in the African widowbirds and bishops (Euplectes spp.); elongated black tails (...

S2-MOVE: Smart and Social Move

In this position paper we present S-MOVE (Smart and Social Move), a social innovation project funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University). SMOVE is based on a new conception of urban community, that allows citizens to share data and decisions in a smart and innovative way. In order to implement this new vision of urban mobility, called smart mobility, a deep integrat...