Article history: Available online 3 April 2010

• Each table in the database has one column and stores the possible values for a ground fluent term. •Whenever there is complete knowledge about the term, the corresponding table has exactly one row. E.g., the ground fluent term door has only one possible value (Closed ) and so the table for door has exactly one row: Closed. •Whenever there is incomplete knowledge, the table has more than one r...

paper, we attempt to reconstruct the sitcalculus on a dense flow of time. The

The tropical semi-ring is the triplet (R,⊕, ) with x⊕ y := min(x,y) and x y := x+ y . Its algebraic properties are somewhat modest, if one compares it with rings and fields, which are more common in most areas of mathematics. Still the distributive laws hold, and as an additional catch the addition is idempotent, that is, x⊕ x = x holds for all x ∈ R. As defined our tropical semi-ring is lackin...

Branded in 2005, "neglected tropical diseases" have gained traction in terms of advocacy, interest for research, enhanced funding and political will for their control and eventual elimination. Starting with an initial set of 13 neglected tropical diseases--seven helminth, three bacterial and three protozoal infections--the list considerably expanded to more than 40 diseases that now also includ...

Emergence and resurgence of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, Japanese encephalitis and filariasis both in tropical and subtropical regions are well known. It is estimated that 500 million – one in every ten persons suffer from one or more tropical diseases and the global situation of lymphatic filariasis is reported as the 4th rank1.. The geo-climatic conditions in India are con...