sick, and so forth. Much effort has been devoted to the editing of the text, for which six manuscripts have been examined and collated. There are, however, numerous other copies in Arab and Western libraries (Khalfa seems not to know of these), and the history of the text's composition and transmission does not lend itself to editing simply by opting for the more frequently attested variants. I...

In previous lectures, we had discussed the problem of searching for relevant results on the WWW by exploiting the link structure. Nowadays, there are already multiple search engines giving quite good results. However, given that there are so many search engines already, employing different techniques, we may be interested in combining their positive features, and constructing a meta-search engi...

The general purpose of this thesis is to inve8tigate the design of compilers for procedu­ ralla.nguagea, based on the algebraic la.ws which these langua.ges sa.tisfy. The particular stra.tegy adopted is to reduce an arbitrary source progrQlIl to a nonna! form which de­ scribes precisely the beha.viour of the ta.rget machine. This is achieved by a. series of algebraic transformations which are p...

This is the first part of a two-part article describing the effects of The addition of polymers to a cement matrix can add adding poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) to a cement based matrix to irasignificantly to the magnitude of the "adhesion" comprove the bond at the fiber-matrix interface. Two types of fibers were ponent of bond at the fiber-matrix interface. For examused, steel and brass fibers (sim...

Human behavioral data often shows patterns of sudden change over time. Sometimes the causes of these step changes are internal, such as learning curves that change abruptly when a learner implements a new rule. Sometimes the cause is external, such as when people’s opinions about a topic change in response to a new relevant event. Detecting change points in sequences of binary data is basic sta...

In the framework of Palaeography, the use of digital image processing techniques has received increasing attention in recent years, resulting in a new research field commonly denoted as “digital palaeography”. In such a field, a key role is played by both pattern recognition and feature extraction methods, which provide quantitative arguments for supporting expert deductions. In this paper, we ...

ABSTRACT This article explores the contentious issue of oral and written transmission in thirteenth-century French song by looking at a selection early jeux-partis that share their melodies with other songs. It argues acts contrafacture were sometimes carried out using exemplars, or when was occurring. First, it is asserted melodic variance could result from both transmission. Second, evidence ...