It often happens that several diierent regulations apply to a given organization. And sometimes, these regulations are connicting, that is, for instance, one regulation says that it is forbidden to do some action while another says it is permitted to do the same action. In this paper, we present a logic, called FUSION, to reason when several regulations are merged together. Our approach is to s...

Motivated by efficiency and equity concerns, public resource managers have increasingly utilized hybrid allocation mechanisms that combine features of commonly used price (e.g., auction) and non-price (e.g., lottery) mechanisms. This study serves as an initial investigation of these hybrid mechanisms, exploring theoretically and experimentally how the opportunity to obtain a homogeneous good in...

When there are huge volumes of information dispersing in the various machines, global directory services are required for the users. DSCloud Platform provides the global directory service , in which the directories are created and maintained by the users themselves. In this paper, we describe the DSCloud Platform directory service’s functions, authorization, mounting users’ local file systems ,...

22 The lantibiotic lacticin 3147 has been the focus of much research due to its broad spectrum of 23 activity against many microbial targets, including drug resistant pathogens. In order to protect 24 itself, a lacticin 3147 producer must possess a cognate immunity mechanism. Lacticin 3147 25 immunity is provided by an ABC transporter, LtnFE, and a dedicated immunity protein, LtnI, 26 both of w...

previous studies have suggested that ketamine, an n-methyl-d-aspartate (nmda) receptor antagonist, provides a pre-emptive analgesic effect and pre-emptive analgesia improves postoperative pain management. the aim of this study was to determine the effict of pre-incisional vs. post-incisional intravenous low dose of racemic ketamine in postoperative pain in children undergoing inguinal hernia re...

i try to show that richard rorty, although is not a moral philosopher like kant, nerveless, has moral philosophy that must be taken seriously. rorty was not engaged with moral philosophy in the systematic manner common among leading modern and contemporary moral philosophers. this paper has two parts: first part, in brief, is concerned with principles of his philosophy such as anti-essentialism...

t he holy religion of islam regards god as the real legislator. now the question is: does the holy prophet muhammad enjoys the right of legislation too? this is an issue of disagreement between the experts. the consequence of the viewpoint of those who recognize the above-mentioned right for the prophet and the imams is to hold that the religion is imperfect; that the theory of expansion of sha...

To assess the quality of the services provided at in-school Olympiads, and detect any possible gaps between expected and perceived quality, a sample of 420 students, principals, vice principals, teachers at participating schools, and the provincial general directors, their assistants, and the heads of provincial physical education departments was given a questionnaire of adequate validity and r...