In this account of the Obedience to Authority experiments, we offer a richer and more dynamic depiction of the subjects’ acts and reactions. To paraphrase Milgram, our account tries to examine the central elements of the situation as perceived by its research subjects. We describe a model of the experimenter–subject system that moves beyond experimentalism and humanism, positing instead a model...

In this work, we study the collective behaviour of fish shoals in annular domains. Shoal mates are modelled as self-propelled particles moving on a discrete lattice. Collective decision-making is determined by information exchange among neighbours. Neighbourhoods are specified using the perceptual limit and numerosity of fish. Fish self-propulsion and obedience to group decisions are described ...

Many applications require that nodes be scattered locally quasi-uniformly within 2-D regions or on curved surfaces in 3-D space, while obeying some prescribed spatially varying density function. This study focuses on creating variable density node layouts that are suitable for meshfree discretizations of PDEs. Another application is ‘dithering’ to simulate half-tone images. The method is an ’ad...

The relation between law and morality is a point of contention amongst legal philosophers. There are several issues: first, the extent to which law should incorporate moral standards; second, the effect of moral status on legal validity (the "validity question"); third, the effect of legal validity on the obligation created by the law (the "obedience question"). Because most positivists concede...

Cardinal polysplines of order p on annuli are functions in C2p−2 (Rn \ {0}) which are piecewise polyharmonic of order p such that ∆p−1S may have discontinuities on spheres in Rn, centered at the origin and having radii of the form ej , j ∈ Z. The main result is an interpolation theorem for cardinal polysplines where the data are given by sufficiently smooth functions on the spheres of radius ej...