Syntax: P 2 Program TD 2 Type-Declaration T, S, U 2 Type-Name MD 2 Method-Declaration F* 2 Formal-List F 2 Formal B 2 Body D 2 Declaration E 2 Expression g 2 Method-Name E* 2 Expression-List C 2 Command M 2 Main I 2 Identi er N 2 Numeric-literal P ::= TD MD M TD ::= j type I fields ( F* ) j TD1 ; TD2 FD ::= j I : T j FD1 ; FD2 T ::= I MD ::= j method I ( F* ) : T f B g j MD1 ; MD2 F* ::= j F F*...

This paper reviews the scholarship, primarily but not exclusively historical, concerning women and the U.S. welfare state, scholarship that considers both the impact of welfare programs on the gender system and the contributions of women's activism in the creation of welfare programs. A brief review of the traditional historical scholarship on U.S. welfare suggests the limitations that result f...

The paper argues that the last few decades have witnessed changes in how citizens are viewed in the UK and that these changes have implications for security risk governance. The paper identifies a shift from contract to tort law, and a related shift from a contract model of citizens to a tort model of citizens, or from a view of citizens as robust, rational risk-takers to vulnerable persons at ...

This essay examines the sociological contributions to anthrozoology, focusing on research from the United States that employs a symbolic interactionist perspective. In particular, the work of Arluke and Sanders highlights the importance of understanding the meanings that animals hold for people. Using a selective review of their research, this essay outlines how a focus on understanding meaning...

RECENT WORK ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY and knowledge growth has produced a variety of models to capture a process of bewildering complexity. Prominent among these are organic models, which compare knowledge growth to biological processes (e.g., hybridization), and spatial models, based on various suggestive geographical parallels. Part of the background of the dynamic formation, interaction, and di...

Only a few writers have attempted to construct a comprehensive philosophy of social science, and of these Weber is the most relevant to the present. The structure of his conception places him in a close relationship to Donald Davidson. The basic reasoning of Davidson on action explanation, anomalous monism, and the impossibility of a ‘serious science’ of psychology is paralleled in Weber. There...

It has been amply demonstrated in recent years that careful attention to the structure of systems software can lead to greater exibility, reliability, and ease of implementation, without incurring an undue penalty in performance. It is our contention that advanced programming languages| particularly languages with a mathematically rigorous semantics, and featuring higher-order functions, polymo...

Two studies provide evidence that, in work situations, Latins (Mexicans & Mexican-Americans) are guided by a concern with socioemotional aspects of workplace relations to a far greater degree than are Anglo-Americans. The focus on socioemotional considerations results in Latins having a relatively greater preference for workgroups having a strong interpersonal orientation. Preferred relational ...

ing away the details of message delivery across the network. The communication mechanism we assume is an asynchronous one, involving unbounded bu ers and allowing message overtaking. We assume a collection of names de ned as the union of pairwise disjoint sets RN [ AN [ LAN [DN [ CN , where: ri 2 RN Router Names ai 2 AN Agent Names li 2 LAN Local Agent Addresses di 2 DN Data Items c 2 CN Contro...