In this paper I present a partial formalisation of a normaliser for type theory in Agda[Nor07]; extending previous work on big-step normalisation[AC08,AC06]. The normaliser in written as an environment machine. Only the computational behaviour of the normaliser is presented omitting details of termination.

When I turned on my computer the other day, a notification greeted me to update my software. I clicked " okay " and marveled at the computer's capacity to improve itself. An hour or so later, my computer had improved its programs to run faster, cleaned up its layout to appear more modern, and deleted several useless programs. On many occasions, the brain has been compared to a computer in its v...

One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that caused the death of 146 garment workers, a garment fire on November 24, 2012 in Bangladesh resulted in 111 deaths under remarkably similar circumstances. The majority of these workers were also young women, economically disadvantaged, migrants, and, by any definition, vulnerable. Fires have been a persistent prob...