ABSTRACT In “Eden’s Geography Erodes Flood Geology” (The Westminster Theological Journal, Spring, 1996, pp. 123-154), John C. Munday argues that a cataclysmic view of a world-wide flood cannot be supported after an analysis of the geography of Eden. Munday bases his argument on two unproven assumptions: 1) Moses was the author of Genesis two and 2) the account was written from the perspective o...

The cardinality constraint is one of the most important constraints that can be established in a conceptual model. Nevertheless, not all CASE tools for developing database support the validation of this constraint due to the complexity associated to the referential integrity rules. So that, the contribution of this work concerns to provide PANDORA CASE (a tool used for learning and developing d...

This document summarizes the proposals before the SQL3 committees to allow the addition of tables with valid-time and transaction-time support into SQL/Temporal, and explains how to use these facilities to migrate smoothly from a conventional relational system to one encompassing temporal support. Initially, important requirements to a temporal system that may facilitate such a transition are m...

Dynamics of supersymmetric monopoles are studied in the low energy approximation. A conjecture for the exact moduli space metric is given for all collections of fundamental monopoles of distinct type, and various partial confirmations of the conjecture are outlined. Upon the quantization of the resulting multi-monopole dynamics in the context of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theories, o...

SQL3 generalizes the relational model into an object model offering abstract data types, multiple inheritance, and dynamic polymorphism. Tables may then contain collections (multisets) of objects, and sets and lists are defined as closely related collection types. By specifying an SQL-Table type template to correspond to the existing Table concept, it is possible to treat sets and lists as subt...

Neurons and networks in the cerebral cortex must operate reliably despite multiple sources of noise. To evaluate the impact of both input and output noise, we determine the robustness of single-neuron stimulus selective responses, as well as the robustness of attractor states of networks of neurons performing memory tasks. We find that robustness to output noise requires synaptic connections to...

Business groups are a common type of enterprise in late-developing countries, yet their existence appears to be at odds with extant theory in strategic management. Drawing on Schumpeter, we suggest that entrepreneurs in late development build a business group by engaging in a distinct type of innovation. Instead of creating new products they leverage local and foreign contacts to combine foreig...

MIMO is a model that tries to integrate some of the main current object models (SQL3, ODMG-93, UML), covering all the database development phases. It is defined in the framework of the ENEASIBD project, that is being developed by the “Grupo de Bases de Datos Avanzadas ” at “Universidad Carlos III” (Madrid, Spain). An objective of ENEAYBD is to allow generation of ODMG-93 andor SQL3 schemata >om...

This study investigates knowledge contributors’ satisfaction with a distinct type of virtual communities (i.e., transactional virtual communities, TVCs), where knowledge sharing is guided mainly under the principle of economic exchange, and cost–benefit tradeoff is the primary motive for knowledge sharing. Drawing upon the goal attainment theory, we examine the effects of two types of benefits ...

Rainfall observations in the Sahel region of West Africa show significant variability at the timescale of decades. Here we explore the mechanisms of this lowfrequency variability using a coupled biosphere-atmosphere model which includes explicit representation of vegetation dynamics. By forcing the model with the observed sea surface temperature (SST) of the tropical Atlantic Ocean during the p...