It is conjectured that there exist only finitely many isomorphism classes of endomorphism algebras of abelian varieties of bounded dimension over a number field of bounded degree. We explore this conjecture when restricted to quaternion endomorphism algebras of abelian surfaces of GL2type over Q by giving a moduli interpretation which translates the question into the diophantine arithmetic of S...

The choice calculus provides a language for representing and transforming variation in software and other structured documents. Variability is captured in localized choices between alternatives. The space of all variations is organized by dimensions, which provide scoping and structure to choices. The variation space can be reduced through a process of selection, which eliminates a dimension an...

Despite parallels between the structure of poetry composition tasks and design tasks, there appears to be no previous research exploring the consequences of these correspondences for an understanding of skilled behaviour in these two domains. In the present study we interviewed five expert poets about their creative practices and conducted a thematic analysis comparing these practices to key fi...

1Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group, Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research, University of Stirling, Scotland, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK 2 Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK 3Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, Scotland, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK 4 Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Sco...

Disaster management and disaster medicine are well-established disciplines for responding to disasters and providing care for individuals whose health and wellbeing has been affected. However, these disciplines have different origins, development, and priorities so that communication and coordination across them during disasters is often lacking, leading to delayed, sub-standard, inappropriate,...

Due to the recency and relatively limited adoption of Semantic Web technologies, practical issues related to technology scaling have received less attention than foundational issues. Nonetheless, these issues must be addressed if the Semantic Web is to realize its full potential. In particular, we concentrate on the lack of scoping methods that reduce the size of semantic information spaces so ...

Mixin-based inheritance is an inheritance technique that has been shown to subsume a variety of different inheritance mechanisms. It is based directly upon an incremental modification model of inheritance. This paper addresses the question of how mixins can be seen as named attributes of classes the same way that objects, methods, and also classes in their own right, are seen as named attribute...

This paper seeks modeling guidelines by which project teams may respond confidently to the client’s urgency while simultaneously assuring valuable and valid analyses. We conclude that “de-scoping” is the only reliable approach for accelerating a business process simulation project in response to client pressures. A thought experiment supports this conclusion.

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (?), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantiier scoping and ellipsis resolution. It is argued that the order-independence results from viewing semantic interpretation as building a description of a semantic composition, instead of the more common view of interpretation as ac...