bahman-nāme, a late 5th-century (a.h.) or early 6th-century (a.h.) epic poem, is one of those significant poems that used the shāh-nāme as a model. this story was composed by īrānshāh in four parts. the first part recounts the adventures of bahman, son of esfandīār, who, at the behest of rostam, marries katāyūn, the daughter of the king of kashmir. although generally this poem belongs to the ep...

Crafting satisfying narratives while preserving player freedom is a longstanding challenge for computer games. The quest structure used by many games allows players to experience content nonlinearly, but risks creating disjointed stories when side quests only minimally integrate with the main story. We propose a flexible, scene-based emergent story system that reacts to the player’s actions whi...

The hurricane remains one of the outstanding enigmas of fluid dynamics. This is so, in part, because the phenomenon is comparatively difficult to observe and because no laboratory analogue has been discovered. To this it must be added that hurricanes have received surprisingly little attention from the theoretically inclined fluid dynamicist, perhaps owing to an understandable tendency to avoid...

According to Hans Kamp and Frank Vlach, the two-dimensional tense operators “now” and “then” are ineliminable in quantified tense logic. This is often adduced as an argument against tense logic, and in favor of an extensional account that makes use of explicit quantification over times. The aim of this paper is to defend tense logic against this attack. It is shown that “now” and “then” are eli...

In this contribution we propose an analogue receiver that can perform turbo detection inMIMO systems. We present the case for a receiver that is built from nonlinear analogue devices, which perform detection in a “free-flow” network (no notion of iterations). This contribution can be viewed as an extension of analogue turbo decoder concepts to include MIMO detection. These first analogue implem...

In this account of the history of voting-power measurement, we confine ourselves to the concept of a priori voting power. We show how the concept was re-invented several times and how the circumstances in which it was reinvented led to conceptual confusion as to the true meaning of what is being measured. In particular, power-as-influence was conflated with value in the sense of transferable ut...

P often think of the human skeleton as a symbol of death. In one sense this is true: Bone resists decomposition better than flesh, so it has a greater chance of being preserved after death. However, bone is also a living tissue. The skeleton is remarkably dynamic during life—even in adults—and it responds to metabolic needs and mechanical requirements. When muscles grow stronger, the underlying...