CONNECTING NATIONAL SAFETY NETS: THE DIALECTICS OF THE BASEL II CONTRACTING PROCESS Edward J. Kane Boston College Dialectics is the art or practice of trying to reconcile contradictory ideas. Contracting is a sequential process that employs the dialectics of multiparty give and take to fashion a deal that -to a mutually acceptable degree -can accommodate the contradictory interests of the dealm...

The discovery of selective associability of cues in classical (Pavlovian) conditioning has often been treated as an embarrassment to Pavlov, because he has been represented as a proponent of the “equivalence of associability of cues.” According to that doctrine, except for the influence of differences in stimulus intensity, all environmental stimuli are equally susceptible to becoming condition...

In this article we consider the evolution of vortex sheets in the plane both as a weak solution of the two dimensional incompressible Euler equations and as a (weak) solution of the Birkhoff-Rott equations. We begin by discussing the classical Birkhoff-Rott equations with respect to arbitrary parametrizations of the sheet. We introduce a notion of weak solution to the Birkhoff-Rott system and w...

Reactive systems are interactive programs that react continuously to sequences of activations coming from the external world. Reactive programming leads to a new programming style where one programs in terms of reactions to activations and reasons in a logic of instants. This paper describes an extension of the C programming language called RC (for ‘Reactive C’) to program reactive systems. The...

In this article we consider the evolution of vortex sheets in the plane both as a weak solution of the two dimensional incompressible Euler equations and as a (weak) solution of the Birkhoff-Rott equations. We begin by discussing the classical Birkhoff-Rott equations with respect to arbitrary parametrizations of the sheet. We introduce a notion of weak solution to the Birkhoff-Rott system, and ...

background: selection of an appropriate leadership style coordinated with external motivation can improve job performance, job promotion and job satisfaction and consequently lead to achieving both individual and organizational goals. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction of staff working in health care networks in kerman university o...

Many morphogenetic processes are accomplished by coordinated cell rearrangements. These rearrangements are accompanied by substantial shifts in the neighbor relationships between cells. Here we propose a model for studying morphogenesis in epithelial sheets by directed cell neighbor change. Our model describes cell rearrangements by accounting for the balance of forces between neighboring cells...

Patrick Thompson is Director of Architecture at Rogue Wave Software, where he has been involved with SOAP bridging products and in exploring the uses of SOAP and XML protocols for the past year and a half. He is on the W3C XML Protocols working group and is involved in the OMG ́s CORBA/SOAP mapping work. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and is coauthor of the popular book The Elements...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between identity styles and commitment with quality of friendship among the students in third grade of high school. 400 participants from nineteen educational districts were chosen randomly. three quesnonnaires were used: identity style inventory, the quality of friendship, the reciprocity of friendship . the results indicated that inform...

This paper discusses the suitability of the Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology for storage performance tuning. The DOE estimates the main and interaction effects of three major storage factors viz, Cache Partition Size (CPS),LUN Strip Size (LSS) and Cache Segment Size (CSS) settings of an enterprise level storage system on the overall storage performance. Other factors influencing performa...