Just how different are objects and agents? Some developers consider agents to be objects, but with more bells and whistles. This approach tends to define agents beginning with the phrase, "An agent is an object that ..."—where the definers add their favorite discriminating features. Then, there are those who see agents and objects as different even though they share many things in common. Both ...

"IA7E can truly say that Sherlock Holmes lived * * in Baker Street, and that he liked to show off his mental powers. We cannot truly say that he was a devoted family man, or that he worked in close cooperation with the police. It would be nice if we could take such descrip? tions of fictional characters at their face value, ascribing to them the same subject-predicate form as parallel descripti...

the family of najaf ali isfahani were unique in safawid and qajar periods. no family has played a more prominent role in the painting of court life as more as najaf ali’s family. najaf ali in recognition of his work in lacquer painting was foremost among the lacquer painters. under afsharid and  zand  periods, lacquer works further developed and ali ashraf was one of prominent painters in this ...

In the context of in-hospital care management, need for infusion therapies involves choice appropriate devices. Historically, there is no consensus about preference vascular accesses, although data present in literature would seem to favor peripheral ones due fearful complications and a non-negligible rate bloodstream infections. It also true decision central routes sometimes dictated by patien...

In this paper we show how to construct several infinite families of polynomials D(x̄, k), such that p D(x̄, k) has a regular continued fraction expansion with arbitrarily long period, the length of this period being controlled by the positive integer parameter k. We also describe how to quickly compute the fundamental units in the corresponding real quadratic fields.