CONVERGENCE THEORIES OF THE 196OS AND I97OS PREDICTED THAT THE two rival political-economic systems would more or less rapidly assimilate each other and inevitably move toward one another. The East was to be enriched with market elements, while the "mixed" economic order of Westem capitalism had already adopted elements of state intervention into production and distribution processes. The probl...

Payments architectures are on the verge of a great bifurcation that must be documented in order to be debated. Google is moving towards a quasi bank while Apple and Google disseminate payment systems over smartphones. At the same time, block chain might become a distributed ledger introducing a radical new model of trusted third-party. The detailed history of credit card systems helps understan...

A 19 year female came with the complaints of rectal bleeding, constipation, griping abdominal pain and mucous discharge per rectum. Abdomen was tender on examination. Digital rectal examination in the squatting position revealed unterior rectal wall prolapse to the anal verge. Sigmoidoscopy and biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of Solitary Rectal Ulcer (S.R.U.) Syndrome.

Jokes, ethnic slurs and parodies often occur in Internet comments, as the general feeling of anonymity allows for and even favours balancing on the verge of the acceptable and the unacceptable. Thus, a humorously intended comment can be perceived as aggressive by other Internet users. This possibility is further enhanced by the fact that the electronic media in general and computer mediated com...

in Rwanda two years earlier, a major humanitarian crisis erupted in Central Africa on the border between Zaïre and Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of refugees — this time Hutus — fled into the jungles of the region and appeared on the verge of starvation. Canada took a leading role in forming a UN multinational force to provide aid and protection to the refugees. This proved to be a major challen...

We are on the verge of developing artificial intelligences that may dwarf the capabilities of human intelligence. How we will interact and thrive alongside such intelligence will be a pressing societal problem. This paper addresses the question of the intelligence of “artificial persons” (organisations of people) that already exist in our modern world. A particular issue – social exclusion from...

ion starts from an initial, simple, undeveloped first form, which need not be internally and externally consistent. The development of abstraction proceeds from analysis, at the initial stage of the abstraction, to synthesis. It ends with a consistent and elaborate final form. It does not lead from concrete to abstract but from an undeveloped to a developed form of abstract in which new feature...

This paper provides conditions under which evo lutionary algorithms with an elitist selection rule will con verge to the global optimum of some function whose do main may be an arbitrary space These results generalize the previously developed convergence theory for binary and Euclidean search spaces to general search spaces

Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic disease characterized by painful recurrent abscesses, fistulas and scarring lesions in axilla, groin, perineum and rarely mass lesions at the affected site. Here we present a case of hidradenitis suppurativa that presented as a polypoidal growth at the anal verge.