This paper describes how to analyze a timed system symbolically. That is, given a symbolic representation of a set of (timed) states (as an expression), we describe how to determine an expression that represents the set of states that can be reached either by firing a discrete transition or by advancing time. These operations are used to determine the set of reachable states symbolically. We al...

The greatest gap between the practices of Hall of Fame organizations occurs for organization alignment…and this indicates that alignment, much like the synchronism achieved by a high-performance rowing crew, produces dramatic benefits. Understanding how to create alignment in organizations is a big deal, one capable of significant payoffs for all types of enterprises (Kaplan and Norton 2006). C...

A method of reducing general quaternion functions of first degree, i.e., linear quaternion functions, to quaternary canonical form is given. Linear quaternion functions, once reduced to canonical form, can be maintained in this form under functional composition. Furthermore, the composition operation is symbolically identical to quaternion multiplication, making manipulation and reduction of sy...

Austen's extraordinary realism in depicting the dynamic internal processes which follow on the heroine's loss in Persuasion becomes clear in the light of a psychoanalytic understanding of mourning. Persuasion dramatizes the effects of a mother's death in adolescence as these come into play at the time of the heroine's separation from her fiancée and her later mourning. The thesis of this paper ...

An analysis of the photometric observations of the light curves of the five large amplitude, irregularly pulsating stars R UMi, RS Cyg, V CVn, UX Dra and SX Her is presented. First, multi-periodicity is eliminated for these pulsations, i.e., they are not caused by the excitation of a small number of pulsation modes with constant amplitudes. Next, on the basis of energetics we also eliminate sto...

this study is designed, aiming to detect changes in the composition and configuration of landscape in rasht township between 1989 and 2011. it has been conducted applying synoptic analysis. hence, landscape maps have been generated from three tm satellite images at 1987, 1999 and 2011 applying hybrid classification method. some composition and configuration-based metrics including np, pd, lsi, ...

Abstract The global movement of people is a growing feature contemporary life, and it essential that professionals providing support services know how to best engage with migrant families. However, despite globalisation the related processes de-bordering, borders continue remain significant and, in ways which immigration controlled surveilled—bureaucratically symbolically—are multiple. paper dr...

rabiʿa al-aʿdawiyya (717-801 a.d.) the first female sufi in the muslim world, who introduced the concept of ‘love’ into mysticism, was popular for her witticism, sharp reprimands of her contemporary male sufis and her gender-bending practices. in ʿattar’s tadhkirat al-awliya, rabiʿa is portrayed as a challenger of the established gender norms of her day. rabiʿa’s crossing of gender boundaries a...