A justification of some statement is an argument which has that statement as its conclusion, but not every such argument is a justification. Consider the argument shown in Fig. 1 (based on one found in Moser’s book Empirical Justification (1985), p. 23). What would make this a justification of the statement, ‘Swimming is going to be dangerous today’? For it to be a justification the argument wo...

The cohomology ring of the moduli space M(n, d) of semistable bundles of coprime rank n and degree d over a Riemann surface M of genus g ≥ 2 has again proven a rich source of interest in recent years. The rank two, odd degree case is now largely understood. In 1991 Kirwan [8] proved two long standing conjectures due to Mumford and to Newstead and Ramanan. Mumford conjectured that a certain set ...

Tonga’s constitution was originally a liberal, 19th century document that economically combined popular representation and aristocratic direction in a unicameral vehicle instead of the conventional bicameral legislature. Subsequent amendments strengthened the executive, and the greatest of all, in 1914, significantly reduced representation of both nobles and people. The configuration of power s...

This paper describes an efficient yet accurate methodology for estimating system damping. The proposed technique is based on linear dynamic system theory and the Hilbert damping analysis. The proposed technique requires capacitor switching waveforms only. The detected envelope of the intrinsic transient portion of the voltage waveform after capacitor bank energizing and its decay rate along wit...