Indexical beliefs pose a special problem for standard theories of bayesian updating. Sometimes we are uncertain about our location in time and space. How are we to update our beliefs in situations like these? In a stepwise fashion, I develop a constraint on the dynamics of indexical belief. As an application, the suggested constraint is brought to bear on the Sleeping Beauty problem.

In recent decades, necessity to protect environment has been a serious concern for all people and international communities. In appropriate development of human economic activities, subsistence dependence of the growing world population on nature decreases the natural diversity of ecosystems and habitats day by day and provides additional constraints for life and survival of wildlife. As a resu...

Potassium-argon analysis by stqwise dissolution provides a way to measure in detail the distribution of argon isotopes and potassium in rock salt. The method can be used for salt that contains only trace amounts of potassium, because the potassium and argon in detrital silicates within the salt are not released during the dissolution. Water may be used as the solvent when relatively large a...

Designing distributed databases is an issue of paramount importance for executing transactions eeciently. The distributed database design process consists of three phases namely, the initial design, redesign and materialization of the redesign. The initial design consists of a fragmentation and an allocation scheme which minimize the irrelevant data access cost and data transfer cost. Over a pe...

introduction: this study carried out to investigate the causes and motivations of older people residing in nursing home. methods: a qualitative description study was designed by choosing a sample of the elderly residing in a nursing home in tabriz, iran. based on purposive sampling, fifteen residents in the age range of 65-85 participated in the study. data was collected through unstructured in...

in this paper, the interface crack of two non-homogenous functionally graded materials is studied. subsequently, with employing the displacement method for fracture of mixed-mode stress intensity factors, the continuous variation of material properties are calculated. in this investigation, the displacements are derived with employing of the functional graded material programming and analysis o...

The transmission TrG(v) of a vertex v connected graph G is the sum distances between and all other vertices in G. stepwise irregular (STI) if |TrG(u) ? TrG(v)| = 1 holds for each edge uv E(G). In this paper, extremal results on STI graphs with respect to size different metric properties are proved. Two families appear cases, balanced complete bipartite odd order so called hatted cycles.