We study a class of examples of minimizing automata with respect to branching bisimulation in the context of the Span(Graph) model. Compositional minimization is particularly efficient for the class which includes the classical dining philospher problem and variants. The reason for the efficiency is that finite subsets of the class generate finite submonoids of the bisimulation monoid. We indic...

The master economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. ... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher to some degree.

1 2 3 4 Dopamine exerts activation dependent modulation of spinal locomotor circuits in the 5 neonatal mouse 6 7 8 Jennifer M Humphreys and Patrick J Whelan 9 10 Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Departments of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, 11 Physiology and Pharmacology and Clinical Neurosciences. University of Calgary, Calgary, 12 Alberta, Canada. 13 14 15 16 Running Head: Dopaminer...

This paper discusses the pedagogical and technological aspects of assessing wiki-based collaborative learning activities. The first part of the paper presents a general framework of collaborative learning assessment. The framework is based on four aspects of assessment, characterized by four questions: who, what, how and by whom. The second part of the paper concentrates on the analysis of the ...

that Gadamer associates with "health". Gaiger and Walker have translated Gadamer's critique of modem medicine in elegant and eminendly quotable language. Anyone interested in Gadamer, and anyone seeking quotable quotes from a famous and influential philosopher who is sceptical of the claims of modernism in medicine, would do well to peruse this book. Anyone interested in important new ideas abo...

Referring to Christian Wolff’s letters to the Count of Manteuffel, his maecenas, I want to show how the philosopher Wolff had to present himself (dependant on the expectations of his addressee) as a specific social or intellectual type in order to propagate reliably what he and his adherents called the ‘truth’ of his philosophical worldview.1 Based on my analysis of Wolff’s correspondence with ...

Professor Goldworth takes up the cudgels in defence of the contemporary moral philosopher, who, he says, should indeed have a role in helping doctors to make clinical decisions based on philosophical theory; Mr. Thompson in his reply says that Professor Goldworth has misinterpreted his earlier argument. Mr. Thompson reiterates his view that the practice of medical ethics must begin with the pro...

Imagine the following dialogue between a Religious Minister and a Philosopher who are paying a visit to the Vatican in Rome, and are standing in the center of the Room of the Signature, where are displayed the two great frescos of Raphael Sanzio, The School of Athens and The Dispute of the Holy Sacrament. As if he were standing in the center of a sphere, the Minister begins to realize the natur...