The paper begins with an objection to the DesireBased Reasons Model. The argument from reason-based desires holds that since desires are based on reasons (first premise), which they transmit but to which they cannot add (second premise), they cannot themselves provide reasons for action. In the paper I investigate an attack that has recently been launched against the first premise of this argum...

*Correspondence: Sasha R. X. Dall, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ, Exeter, UK e-mail: [email protected] The study of animal personality variation promises to provide significant new insight into the way that behavior evolves in animals, along with its ecological and evolutio...

Most non-economists would question whether economists know anything about culture. Indeed, given some faculty meetings I’ve been through, I imagine they might go so far as to say economists are uncultured. Although the second sentiment probably does go too far, there is certainly merit to the first. In particular, with a few exceptions (notably Kreps, 1990; Crémer, 1993; Lazear, 1995; Hodgson, ...

Abstract The use of sequential time integration schemes becomes more and the bottleneck within large-scale computations due to a stagnation processor’s clock speeds. In this study, we combine parallel-in-time Multigrid Reduction in Time method with p -multigrid obtain scalable solver specifically designed for Isogeometric Analysis. Numerical results obtained two- three-dimensional benchmark pro...

In this paper, by presenting some notions and theorems, we obtaindifferent types of fuzzy topologies. In fact, we obtain someLowen-type  and Chang-type fuzzy topologies on general fuzzyautomata. To this end, first we define a Kuratowski fuzzy interioroperator which induces a  Lowen-type  fuzzy topology on the  set ofstates of a max- min general   fuzzy automaton. Also by  provingsome theorems, ...

Timothy Williamson’s Modal Logic as Metaphysics is, among much else, a detailed and complex defense of the metaphysical view he calls necessitism, the view that necessarily everything necessarily exists (is something), that although it may be a contingent matter how things are, what things there are is entirely a matter of necessity. The majority of contemporary modal metaphysicians reject this...

in this paper, we investigate infinite product representation of the solution of a sturm-liouville equation with an indefinite weight function which has two zeros and/or singularitiesin a finite interval. first, by using of the asymptotic estimates provided in [w. eberhard, g.freiling, k. wilcken-stoeber, indefinite eigenvalue problems with several singular pointsand turning points, math. nachr...

In this paper, we obtain some upper and lower bounds for the general extended energy of a graph. As an application, we obtain few bounds for the (edge) Zagreb energy of a graph. Also, we deduce a relation between Zagreb energy and edge-Zagreb energy of a graph $G$ with minimum degree $delta ge2$. A lower and upper bound for the spectral radius of the edge-Zagreb matrix is obtained. Finally, we ...

the concept of the bipartite divisor graph for integer subsets has been considered in [‎graph combinator., ‎ 26 (2010) 95--105‎.]. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we will consider this graph for the set of character degrees of a finite group $g$ and obtain some properties of this graph‎. ‎we show that if $g$ is a solvable group‎, ‎then the number of connected components of this graph is at most $2$ and if $g...