China’s Pledge to Civilise “All Under Heaven”

Rethinking Empire from a Chinese Concept ‘All-under-Heaven’ (Tian-xia, )

In this paper the author argues that the Chinese theory of All-under-Heaven is the best philosophy for world governance. All-under-Heaven is a deep world concept with a trinity of meanings: the earth, people’s hearts and a world institution. And it introduces a political principle, ‘world-ness’, that arguably transcends the principle of ‘internationality’. The author argues that the theory of A...

The Pledge Algorithm Reconsidered under Errors in Sensors and Motion

We consider the problem of escaping from an unknown polygonal maze under limited resources and under errors in sensors and motion. It is well-known that the pledge algorithm always finds a path out of an unknown maze without any means of orientation, provided that such a path exists. The pledge algorithm sums up the turning angles along the boundary of the obstacles and plans its way by using a...

The ISIS Bandwagon: Under What Conditions Do Groups Pledge Support?

From pigsties to hog heaven?

In the continuing transformation of U.S. agriculture, North Carolina finds itself on the front edge of change. Between 1989 and 1998, the number of hogs in the state's pork industry quintupled---and so has the amount of hog waste that must be disposed of. Now the state has engaged private and public resources in a rapid search for better ways for handling hog waste. A technology review panel ha...

Candidates pledge to offer more activities

T he N oha ElGanzouri/M elissa Peters ticket an d th e D eb o rah Sheedy/Angela McNulty ticket sh are many of the sam e goals for the upcoming year but hold d iffe ren t ideas reg a rd in g the im plem entation of these goals, a c c o rd in g to S tu d e n t Body President candidate Sheedy. These goals include increas­ ing s tu d e n t in v o lv e m e n t a t campus wide events, expanding servi...