Breaking the chains

Breaking the chains.

M. Christopher Boyer 5/16/2010 1 This is one of those wonderful and beloved old stories that many of us learned in our earliest days in Sunday School, at least in part. The image of Paul and Silas, bravely and joyfully singing hymns while chained in a dreadful dungeon, awaiting who knows what kind of awful fate, is one that has inspired artists and songwriters over the ages. You can’t for examp...

Breaking the Chains: A Dissection of the Caribbean's Tourism Mirage

e - commerce and supply chains – breaking down the boundaries

Many companies learned the expensive way that supply chains are complex beasts. More effective approaches to improving supply chains through e-commerce are now emerging. Internet technologies have already had a dramatic impact on the way that people around the world think and act. In the six or so years since the World Wide Web’s inception, its speed of acceptance has been unprecedented. The fi...

On the tutte polynomial of benzenoid chains

The Tutte polynomial of a graph G, T(G, x,y) is a polynomial in two variables defined for every undirected graph contains information about how the graph is connected. In this paper a simple formula for computing Tutte polynomial of a benzenoid chain is presented.

Breaking the Chains: On Declarative Analysis and Independence in the Big Data Era

Data management research, systems, and technologies have drastically improved the availability of data analysis capabilities, particularly for non-experts, due in part to low-entry barriers and reduced ownership costs (e.g., for data management infrastructures and applications). Major reasons for the widespread success of database systems and today’s multi-billion dollar data management market ...