In times past in a country far away, passengers on intercity buses were all assigned seat numbers, and the buses were always full. There were many casual people, and there were a few people who were real sticklers for the rules. This is where our problem begins. Adam is the first person to enter an n seat intercity bus, and, since he is a casual person, he takes a seat at random. Subsequently, ...

Abstract For centuries, Christians have understood some of the texts included in New Testament as ‘Jewish,’ sense them being written by (converted) Jews for other Jews. From a historical perspective, new development academy suggests that such approaches do not justice to nature these texts. Indeed, even more recent attempts at understanding against background Judaism are also found wanting. Ins...

Life is evolving fast (at least in the first world) and the latest technological gadget becomes outdated even before we have learnt how to use it. In this respect, science is no exception. The new buzzword ‘Systems Biology’ entered the vocabulary of the scientific community only a few years ago. Now that every biologist is aware of it and almost everyone seems to be doing it, an even newer buzz...

This is a survey paper on various weak systems of Feferman’s explicit mathematics and their proof theory. The strength of the systems considered in measured in terms of their provably terminating operations typically belonging to some natural classes of computational time or space complexity.

William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people himself. For Craig, goodness, best conceived terms righteousness, must also include retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve punishment they receive. My response is Craig’s argument rests on two assumptions about value, neither which, argue, Christian theists have go...

You need not look far to find a slew of articles, white papers, and research reports describing the vulnerability of voice over IP systems. VoIP systems are vulnerable, but currently, the threat of actual attack to these systems is moderate. New vulnerabilities are being reported at an accelerating rate, such as the one that recently affected Cisco’s Call Manager (http://www.techweb.com/wire/ s...

BACKGROUND Abuse of older people is a serious issue and is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, and professionals will encounter elderly victims of abuse in all areas of the health care system. An important health determinant is behavioral factors, including coping style, which will impact on how older people manage stress and maintain control in their lives, and thereb...