Clearly, the enthusiasm of the spectators. An estimated 15 million people lined the streets for the Olympic Torch Relay through the UK, including 4.2 million in London alone. More than 7 million spectators visited venues in the first 10 days of the Games and 2.7 million spectators visited the Olympic Park. More than 5 million people attended Live Sites where events were displayed on big screens...

Modern languages have developed linguistic patterns that are often in consonance with the epistemic knowledge of the world. For the main part, epistemic knowledge is inferred from such linguistic patterns. In some situations however, dissonance occurs between linguistic inference and epistemic inference. When this happens, language compensates by utilizing certain linguistic patterns and rhetor...

The contact problem of elastic bodies, each consisting of a finite layer of uniform thickness rigidly adhering to a half-plane, is investigated on the basis of the two-dimensional theory of elasticity. The materials of the layer and the half-plane in the contact body are isotropic and homogeneous, yet each of them may have distinct elastic properties. The mixed boundary value problem is reduced...

Complex variable techniques are employed to characterize two-dimensional solutions u{x, y) of Laplace's equation which satisfy the boundary condition [fi(d2u/ dy2) + (du/dx)]x„0 = 0, where /? is referred to as the surface-stiffness parameter. Simple closed-form singular solutions are derived which satisfy this boundary condition and represent source and dislocation singularities. The former is ...

The paper is concerned with the existence of a classical solution of a mixed third boundary value problem on a sphere. The existence is proved by reducing the problem to a Fredholm integral equation that has a unique solution. Various consequences of the existence theorem are mentioned and some numerical results are given.

In the systems approach to human memory, the mind/brain is assumed to be multifaceted, with semi-autonomous specialized subsystems operating in parallel. The component subsystems function to highlight their own parts of the representational tableau, which includes the phenomenological experience, the actions, the preferences, and the memories of the person. A number of component systems have be...