The Frege-Russell view is that existence is a second-order property rather than a property of individuals. One of the most compelling arguments for this view is based on the premise that there is an especially close connection between existence and number. The most promising version of this argument is by C.J.F. Williams (1981, 1992). In what follows, I argue that this argument fails. I then de...

Surface samples have been collected from Kerala coast, Valapatanam-Azhikode deposit of northern Kerala coast. The average heavy minerals percentage shows 30.32 %. The heavy mineral assemblage of samples from area showed an appreciable percentage of opaque followed by sillimanite and zircon. The chemical analysis carried out for the present investigation, is detailed as Ferrian ilmenite. X-ray d...

A recent physiological finding of neural coding for border ownership (BO) that defines the direction of a figure with respect to the border has provided a possible basis for figure-ground segregation. To explore the underlying neural mechanisms of BO, we investigated stimulus configurations that activate BO circuitry through psychophysical investigation of the BO-dependent tilt aftereffect (BO-...

The time is generally a challenging task. All issues in relation to time can be better supported using temporal data models. Almost all enterprise database systems have implemented temporal data, partly according to the model specified in the SQL:2011 standard and partly according to other, older temporal models. In this article five temporal concepts will be used to investigate their implement...

[1] The rapid unloading of ice from the southeastern sector of the Greenland ice sheet between 2001 and 2006 caused an elastic uplift of 35 mm at a GPS site in Kulusuk. Most of the uplift results from ice dynamic-induced volume losses on two nearby outlet glaciers. Volume loss from Helheim Glacier, calculated from sequential digital elevation models, contributes about 16 mm of the observed upli...

[1] We use twenty-two monthly GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) gravity fields to recover nonsecular mass change in Greenland. The results show large seasonal variability. We compare with modeled precipitation, evaporation, and runoff derived from ERA40 (the 40-year ECMWF Re-Analysis of the global atmosphere). The model’s seasonal amplitude is controlled by runoff and agrees reaso...

We introduce a mixed-initiative approach for document reconstruction that can significantly reduce the amount of time and effort required to reassemble a document from shredded pieces or an artifact from broken fragments. We focus in particular on the hardest subproblem, which is the problem of identifying a matching neighbor for any given piece. Our approach, called hallucination, combines hum...

In this study the fish assemblages of the silted Aguas Claras stream (AC) was compared with that of a reference, the São Carlos stream (SC), so as to identify potential fish indicators of integrity or degradation. Both streams, located about 5 km from one another, are part of the Upper Paraná river basin, Brazil, and present similar physiographical features. Twenty-one species were collected in...

Zusammenfassung Die Soziologie der Bewertung fokussiert bislang vor allem die Perspektive Bewertenden und konzipiert als etwas, das Bewertende tun. Dieser Einseitigkeit stellt Aufsatz Ambivalenz Perspektivität seines Forschungsgegenstands gegenüber. Er untersucht Pflegebegutachtung durch den Medizinischen Dienst Krankenkassen (MDK). Das Verfahren knüpft ein begehrtes Gut (Versicherungsleistunge...

a Robot Manipulator Ramon Garcia-Hernandez,1,∗ Jose A. Ruz-Hernandez,1,† Edgar N. Sanchez,2,‡ Victor Santibañez,3,§ Miguel A. Llama3,¶ Universidad Autonoma del Carmen, Calle 56 # 4 Esq. Avenida Concordia, C.P. 24180, Colonia Aviacion, Cd. del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico CINVESTAV, Unidad Guadalajara, Apartado Postal 31-430, Plaza La Luna, C.P. 62490, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Instituto Tecnolog...