Killing time

Killing begets killing: evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing fuels subsequent killing.

Killing appears to perpetuate itself even in the absence of retaliation. This phenomenon may occur in part as a means to justify prior killing and so ease the threat of prior killing. In addition, this effect should arise particularly when a killer perceives similarity to the victims because similarity should exacerbate threat from killing. To examine these ideas, the authors developed a bug-ki...

Killing Tensors and Conformal Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Vectors

Koutras has proposed some methods to construct reducible proper conformal Killing tensors and Killing tensors (which are, in general, irreducible) when a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors exist in a given space. We give the completely general result demonstrating that this severe restriction of orthogonality is unnecessary. In addition we correct and extend some results concerning Ki...

Macroeconomic planning in Vanautu: paramount or time-killing activity?

Welfare of animals at the time of killing regulations.

2.1 The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing Regulations 2014 (“the WATOK Regulations”) were due to come into force in England on 20th May 2014 with the purpose of replacing the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/731) (“the 1995 Regulations”) in order to make provision for the administration and enforcement in England of Council Regulation (EC) 1099/2009 ...

Internal time formalism for spacetimes with two Killing vectors.

The Hamiltonian structure of spacetimes with two commuting Killing vector fields is analyzed for the purpose of addressing the various problems of time that arise in canonical gravity. Two specific models are considered: (i) cylindrically symmetric spacetimes, and (ii) toroidally symmetric spacetimes, which respectively involve open and closed universe boundary conditions. For each model canoni...