P systems with symport/antiport rules of a minimal size (only one object passes in any direction in a communication step) were recently proven to be computationally universal. The proof from [2] uses systems with nine membranes. In this paper we improve this results, by showing that six membranes suffice. The optimality of this result remains open (we believe that the number of membranes can be...

Cochlear implants have provided the opportunity for many postIingually deafened adults to hear. Results from sophisticated multichannel implants show a very wide range of performance across patients. We review some of these findings and present a method for measuring lipreading enhancement by considering the percentage of possible enhancement. Prelingually deafened children with cochlear implan...

This study deals with the conflict of Nigerian Biafran War 6 July, 1960-15 January, 1967 as represented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The study attempts to address the following four questions: first, what are the causes-effects of Biafran/Civil war? Second, why Nigerians have been suffering during the wartime? Third, how does the representation of Nigerian hi...

That's it, a book to wait for in this month. Even you have wanted for long time for releasing this book shaping the future business design through information technology; you may not be able to get in some stress. Should you go around and seek fro the book until you really get it? Are you sure? Are you that free? This condition will force you to always end up to get a book. But now, we are comi...

Policy has become an important factor in network de-sign, and there is now a bewildering bevy of architec-tural proposals. Each one aims at a different set of policygoals, and we don’t know which one is right. This pa-per’s animating assumption is that we can’t predict thefuture policy requirements of the Internet so should in-stead seek the most general policy framework...

Background: The Far Future Argument Certain major global catastrophes could cause permanent harm to humanity. A large body of scholarship makes a moral argument for confronting the threat of these catastrophes based on a concern for far future generations. The far future can be defined as anything beyond the next several millennia, including millions or billions of years from now, or even longe...