From computational geometry comes the notion of a Gabriel graph of a point set in the plane. The Gabriel graph consists of those edges connecting two points of the point set such that the circle whose diameter is the edge does not contain any point of the point set in its interior. We define a generalization of the Gabriel graph to n dimensions: the Morse poset. Using Morse theory we prove that...

AND VAGUE LANGUAGE? Today most conservative originalists agree with me that we are not bound by original expected applications, only by original meaning. But the way they cash out original meaning often leads them to model it fairly closely on original expected applications—which includes not only how specific cases would be decided, but also how people at the time of adoption would have articu...

Caring for very important persons (VIPs), including celebrities and royalty, presents medical, organizational, and administrative challenges, often referred to collectively as the "VIP syndrome." The situation often pressures the health care team to bend the rules by which they usually practice medicine. Caring for VIP patients requires innovative solutions so that their VIP status does not adv...

We examine whether the existing ’Database in the Cloud’ service SimpleDB can be used as a back end to quickly and reliably store RDF data for massive parallel access. Towards this end we have implemented ’Stratustore’, an RDF store which acts as a back end for the Jena Semantic Web framework and stores its data within the SimpleDB. We used the Berlin SPARQL Benchmark to evaluate our solution an...

Recently, a new printing process in effect rather like the double images of early stereography appeared, through which fixed concentration on a certain point apparently produced a powerful holographic illusion. A display of posters featuring this process attracted fl‰neurs to a well-known Melbourne bookshop window; the crowd was divided into those muttering "I don't see anything", broken every ...

“That’s likely because “cloud computing” isn’t a “thing”, it’s an architecture; it’s an operational model, a deployment model, even a financial model, but it’s not a tangible “thing” with a specific “secret ingredient” that makes it work. Cloudness is, in fact, very much like DNA: it’s the way in which the individual strands of genetic material (infrastructure) are intertwined (processes) and t...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, always fatal brain disorder that involves quickly progressing dementia. We retrospective reviewed nine patients suffering CJD who’s clinical or neuropathological diagnoses were done. From 2006-2013, the copies of patients’ records and all available test results were taken. Additionally, analyses of CSF parameters, EEG, MRI following routine standard me...

A program has been written which recently generated all the (unlabelled) nine-point graphs. Written in MACRO-10 assembly language and run on a 165K PDP10, it generates the complete set of 274,668 graphs in less than six hours. The algorithm on which this program is based is discussed with an emphasis on coding of graphs and various programming techniques designed to save space and time during e...

This paper introduces a framework of nine sources of product-evoked emotions, which each can be considered to be the outcome of a unique pattern of eliciting conditions. Three main theories of product affect served as the fundament for this framework that combines the two key variables ‘stimulus’ (related to the product) and ‘concern’ (related to the person). The framework of nine sources of pr...