This thesis is created with the purpose to explore destructive nature of obsessive love from its reasonings, symptoms, and how it affects people around perpetrator. While a widely-known emotion that has been norm for everyone, many still do not know dark side too much love, which can be result mental illnesses such as disorder more. Obsessive itself where someone an overwhelming desire possess ...

This paper addresses the problem of determining the diagnosability of hybrid systems by abstracting hybrid models to a discrete event setting. From the continuous model the abstraction only remembers two pieces of information: indiscernability between modes (when they are guaranteed to generate different observations) and ephemerality (when the system cannot stay forever in a given set of modes...

Ivan Havel remembers when in the late 1970s the Czechoslovakian state police began watching his apartment. For months he had been hosting unofficial science seminars, and the police didn't like it. "It politicized me, says the soft-spoken computer scientist and brother of Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel. "The police would check the people who came and ask them to identify 'themselves. Th...

This article examines Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) through lens of materialist feminist affect theories as they intersect with critical Indigeneity. It investigates how produces two parallel conflicting reactions in viewer, for whom “ugly feelings” (Ngai, 2007), such failure, embarrassment, pity or shame, compete an over...

Many path planning algorithms leverage A* to determine optimal paths. However, when an actor deviates from the optimal path, a typical application of A* executes a new search from the deviation point to the goal. This approach redundantly calculates paths that may have been examined during the initial search, rather than leveraging previous information. We introduce Plan-B A* (PBA*), which uses...