The purpose of this study is to demonstrate briefly how Shusaku Endo, the noted Japanese author Silence, stresses his identity over Roman Catholic religion in novel Samurai. This preference has unfortunately been ignored by Western literary critics who have instead opted stress importance religious beliefs fiction.

This paper deals with two concepts of polynomial dichotomy for linear difference equations which are defined in a Banach space and whose norms can increase not faster than exponentially. Some illustrating examples clarify the relations between these concepts. Our approach is based on the extension of techniques for exponential dichotomy to the case of polynomial dichotomy. The obtained results ...

Holant problems are a framework for the analysis of counting complexity problems on graphs. This framework is simultaneously general enough to encompass many other counting problems on graphs and specific enough to allow the derivation of dichotomy results, partitioning all problem instances into those which can be solved in polynomial time and those which are #P-hard. The Holant framework is b...

Introduction: The two most striking surface features on Mars are the crustal dichotomy and the Tharsis Rise [1]. While it is generally accepted that the Tharsis Rise is formed as a result of plume related volcanism [2], the formation mechanism for the crustal dichotomy is controversial with two main competing proposals: endogenic (mantle convection and flow) [3-5] and exo-genic (mega-impact) me...