The process of writing large parallel programs is complicated by the need to specify both the parallel behaviour of the program and the algorithm that is to be used to compute its result This paper introduces evaluation strategies lazy higher order functions that control the parallel evaluation of non strict functional languages Using evaluation strategies it is possible to achieve a clean sepa...

F ascination with fl ora and fauna usually starts early in life as an all-encompassing childhood pastime. Growing up in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, I developed an affi nity for natural history as a child, inspired by famous television naturalists, such as Jacques Cousteau and Bernhard Grzimek, as well as by role models closer to home. As a child, it seemed quite natural to observe, experime...

While the supply of child pornography through the World Wide Web has been frequently speculated upon, the demand has not adequately been explored. Quantification and qualification of the demand provides forensic examiners a behavioral basis for determining the sophistication of an individual seeking child pornography. Additionally, the research assists an examiner in searching for and presentin...

El nombre Juan le venía muy bien al doctor Cárdenas dado que su significado: "el Señor es misericordioso", bien puede describir la principal virtud de este hombre que hoy recordamos con cariño, por haber sido un buen hombre, un buen amigo y un buen médico. En cuanto a su apellido derivado de la palabra cardo que es una planta con espinas y también con flores, esasímismo descriptivo de esa perso...

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

I grew up in Africa, the younger of two sons of Indian parents who taught college physics. Around the time that my brother’s precocious ability with numbers was revealing itself, I discovered that I had no head for math — or for any other subject in the school curriculum. Middle-class Indian parents worshipped the professions, and only three existed for them: medicine, engineering, and law. Whe...

WITHT H E RAPID GROWTH OF DIGITAL INFORMATION RESOURCES, information extraction (1E)-the process of automatically extracting information from natural language texts-is becoming more important. A number of IE systems, particularly in the areas of news/fact retrieval and in domain-specific areas, such as in chemical and patent information retrieval, have been developed in the recent past using th...

Seafloor magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected at seven sites across the Hawaiian hot spot swell, spread approximately evenly between 120 and 800 km southwest of the HawaiianEmperor Island chain. All data are consistent with an electrical strike direction of 300◦, aligned along the seamount chain, and are well fit using two dimensional (2D) inversion. The major features of the 2D electrical ...

This article is an attempt at analysing several aspects of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove from a point of view which includes concepts of both narratology and post-structuralist analysis. I study the level of the fábula and the characters (at the level of the story) in order to prove the existence in the film of a tendency to discard its apparently satiric aim and privilege a logic of spectacle. The...