Abstract We give explicit blowups of the projective plane in positive characteristic that contain smooth rational curves arbitrarily negative self-intersection, showing Bounded Negativity Conjecture fails even for surfaces characteristic. As a consequence, we show any surface admits birational model failing Conjecture.

The structural view of rational acceptance is a commitment to developing a logical calculus to express rationally accepted propositions sufficient to represent valid argument forms constructed from rationally accepted formulas. This essay argues for this project by observing that a satisfactory solution to the lottery paradox and the paradox of the preface calls for a theory that both (i.) offe...

Extended abstract The purpose of the lecture associated with this paper is to present problems, concepts, and theorems of control and system theory for a subclass of the rational positive systems of which examples have been published as models of biochemical cell reaction networks. The recent advances in knowledge for the genome of plants, animals, and humans now lead to increased interest in c...

A piecewise rational cubic spline has been introduced to visualize the positive data in its natural form. It is attempted that the spline method preserves the shape of the data when it is positive. The spline representation is interpolatory and applicable to the scalar valued data. The shape parameters, in the description of the rational cubic, have been constrained in such a way that they cont...

Introduction Rational Chebyshev approximation to reciprocals of certain entire functions by reciprocals of polynomials on the positive real axis has recently attracted the attention of many mathematicians . By developing certain new methods of approach we successfully attacked ([3]-[6]) some of the related problems . This paper is a continuation of our earlier papers ([3]-[6] ) . The results of...

Among most economists, political scientists, and sociologists, it is taken for granted that the rational choice approach is a predictive methodology, and its strengths and weaknesses are judged in relation to that purpose. However, the rational choice model of action is found in a far wider range of disciplines across academia, and the purpose for which it is adopted varies greatly, with predic...

In wireless ad hoc networks, nodes communicate with far off destinations using intermediate nodes as relays. Since wireless nodes are energy constrained, it may not be in the best interest of a node to always accept relay requests. On the other hand, if all nodes decide not to expend energy in relaying, then network throughput will drop dramatically. Both these extreme scenarios (complete coope...