meena alexander, a contemporary indian-american writer and a professor of english literature and women’s studies. the criticism of dr. alexander’s poetry and prose brings in many issues that draws upon poststructuralism and postcolonialism. to mention a few, the negotiation of fragmented identity, the problem of belonging, and the challenge of living in a female body are among her concerns. wha...

The Murphy operators in the Hecke algebra Hn of type A are explicit commuting elements, whose symmetric functions are central in Hn. In [8] I defined geometrically a homomorphism from the Homfly skein C of the annulus to the centre of each algebra Hn, and found an element Pm in C, independent of n, whose image, up to an explicit linear combination with the identity of Hn, is the mth power sum o...

intellect is a fundamental topic of concern in the peripatetic philosophy. a comparison of al-farabi’s approach to ‘intellect’ (an iranian muslim philosopher with an oriental background) with that of alexander of aphrodisias’ (a greek philosopher with an occidental background) may reveal the contrasting features of aristotelian peripatetic philosophy and the islamic philosophy. basing itself on...

We present a twisted version of the Alexander polynomial associated with a matrix representation of the knot group. Examples of two knots with the same Alexander module but different twisted Alexander polynomials are given.

Taiwanese species of the crane fly subgenus Antocha (Antocha) Osten Sacken, 1860, are reviewed. Antocha (Antocha) taiwanensis, new species, is described and figured. Previously known species, Antocha (A.) bifida Alexander, 1924a and Antocha (A.) styx Alexander, 1930 are redescribed and illustrated. Antocha (A.) javanensis Alexander, 1915 is removed from the list of Taiwanese crane flies. Antoch...

Coalgebras When I started my PhD, the idea that the theory of coalgebras might serve as a general theory of systems had emerged. But there were only a few ad hoc descriptions of speci cation languages for coalgebras which were built, in analogy with logics for algebras, on equational logic and extensions. [2] was one of the rst papers to put forward the idea that modal logics should be used as ...