Freedom on the Frontier: Sharon Butala’s Novel <i>Wild Rose</i> as Existential Autofiction

Nowhere and Everywhere: the Electronic Freedom Frontier

Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains. The renowned first line of Rousseau's The Social Contract is hereby restated(1) as a classic phrase which can still be re-interpreted to describe the contemporary state of affairs. I will argue in this paper that it is the nation state that enslaves mankind, while the postmodern in general and cyberspace in particular provides an outlet of indivi...

How to Read Autofiction

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...

Metaorganisms as the new frontier.

Because it appears that almost all organisms are part of an interdependent metaorganism, an understanding of the underlying host-microbe species associations, and of evolution and molecular underpinnings, has become the new frontier in zoology. The availability of novel high-throughput sequencing methods, together with the conceptual understanding that advances mostly originate at the intersect...

Existential Quantification as Incremental SAT

This paper presents an elegant algorithm for existential quantifier elimination using incremental SAT solving. This approach contrasts with existing techniques in that it is based solely on manipulating the SAT instance rather than requiring any reengineering of the SAT solver or needing an auxiliary data-structure such as a BDD. The algorithm combines model enumeration with the generation of s...