â â â â â  features of gibranian utopia in his literary works â  â sardar aslani * â  â abstractâ  every thinker and man of letters who pursues a goal in his or her works has a utopia. after introducing utopia by plato, farabi and st. augustine, gibran khalil gibran established the foundations of his own particular utopia. the features of his utopia are as follows: 1) freedom 2) kindness 3) jus...

In this paper, a load sharing problem involving the optimal load allocation of very long linear data files over N processors interconnected in a bus-oriented network is investigated. Two distinct types of bus networks are examined in the case when there is more than one such outstanding divisible job in the network. These are a network with load origination at a control processor and a network ...

The growth of a diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) cluster with mass M and radius of gyration R is described by a set of growth probabilities {pi}, where pi is the probability that the perimeter site i will be the next to grow. We introduce the joint distribution N(α, x,M), where N(α, x,M)dαdx is the number of perimeter sites with α-values in the range α ≤ αi ≤ α + dα (“αsites”) and located in...

The ratio of L- to K-shell electron captures in light nuclei is particularly sensitive to electron overlap and exchange effects. Calculations of these effects in (7)Be disagree by more than 20%. We report a measurement of the L/K ratio in (7)Be, using a cryogenic microcalorimeter which clearly separates L- and K-shell captures. The obtained L/K ratio of 0.040(6) is less than half that of existi...

This paper is concerned with optimal control of linear backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with a quadratic cost criteria, or backward linear-quadratic (BLQ) control. The solution of this problem is obtained completely and explicitly by using an approach which is based primarily on the completion-of-squares technique. Two alternative, though equivalent, expressions for the optima...

In this paper, we continue our study on a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear–quadratic (LQ) control problem originally formulated in [6]. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of forward– backward stochastic differential equations. When the state is one dimensional and the coefficients in the problem are all deterministic, we prove that the ...

Coverage has been a constant thorn in the side of deployed deep linguistic processing applications, largely because of the difficulty in constructing, maintaining and domaintuning the complex lexicons that they rely on. This paper reviews various strands of research on deep lexical acquisition (DLA), i.e. the (semi-)automatic creation of linguistically-rich language resources, particularly from...

The results of numerical simulations of diffusion-limited aggregation on the torus are presented. The usual random walk was generalised by allowing the particle to perform jumps of length equal to s lattice spacings, s 3 1. Patterns with periodic structure were obtained. Recently there has been an increasing interest in the study of irreversible kinetic processes leading to the formation of fra...