This introduction to the themed section 'Beyond Binaries of Nationalism' critically reviews use binaries in nationalism studies. It identifies a lack precision ideal types as key failing, and points new conceptions types. The contributions question reification binaries, most especially western/eastern civic/ethnic their attendant biases, instead emphasize certain ideological fluidity character ...

The signs and symptoms of disease do something more than signify the functioning of our bodies: they also signify critically sensitive and contradictory components of our culture and social relations. Yet, in our standard medical practices this social “language” emanating from our bodies is manipulated by concealing it within the realm of biological signs. I try to show this by means of a patie...

Motivated by the close relation between real-time and fault tolerance, we investigate the foundations of a forma! framework to specify and verify real-time distributed systems that incorporate fault tolerance techniques. Therefore a denotational semantics is presented to describe the real-time behaviour of distributed programs in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous messa.ge pa...

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard for representing information that can be identified using a Universal Resource Identifier. In particular, it is intended for representing metadata about Web resources. RDF is being used in numerous application areas, including Life Sciences, Digital Libraries, and Intelligence. The RDF data structure is a directed graph or network. Current solu...

The heterogeneity of clinical syndromes subsumed by diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) is regarded by some as a reason to abandon or modify the criteria. However, heterogeneity may be unavoidable because of the biopsychosocial complexity of depression. MDD may be characterised by complexities that cannot be distilled down to any brief set of diagnostic criteria. Psychiatris...

Motivated by the close relation between real-time and fault tolerance, we investigate the foundations of a forma! framework to specify and verify real-time distributed systems that incorporate fault tolerance techniques. Therefore a denotational semantics is presented to describe the real-time behaviour of distributed programs in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous messa.ge pa...

Motivated by the close relation between real-time and fault tolerance, we investigate the foundations of a forma! framework to specify and verify real-time distributed systems that incorporate fault tolerance techniques. Therefore a denotational semantics is presented to describe the real-time behaviour of distributed programs in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous messa.ge pa...

Motivated by the close relation between real-time and fault tolerance, we investigate the foundations of a forma! framework to specify and verify real-time distributed systems that incorporate fault tolerance techniques. Therefore a denotational semantics is presented to describe the real-time behaviour of distributed programs in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous messa.ge pa...

Motivated by the close relation between real-time and fault tolerance, we investigate the foundations of a forma! framework to specify and verify real-time distributed systems that incorporate fault tolerance techniques. Therefore a denotational semantics is presented to describe the real-time behaviour of distributed programs in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous messa.ge pa...

Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve. These properties include believability, correctness, appropriateness, concreteness, integrity, tangibility, objectivity and authority. The information becomes reified. We describe a case study through which we were able to observe at close hand the reification of a demonstrably incorrect and inappropr...