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The FunWorlds project aims to combine and integrate ideas from functional programming, in particular functional reactive programming a la Fran, and virtual worlds, as exemplified by the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML’97). The goal of our research is the design of a concrete toolkit offering functional programmers access to this rich medium for communication and interaction while introd...

Using aggregate data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we analyze profitability in India’s organized manufacturing sector from 1982-83 to 2012-13. Over the whole period of analysis, the rate of profit grew at about 1 percent per annum, primarily driven by a rising share of profits. We use structural break tests to identify medium and short run regimes. We find two medium run regimes, one of...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to analyse changes in meal pattern among Norwegian children from 2001 to 2008 in general; to analyse associations between meal pattern and gender, parental educational level and number of parents in the household; and to analyse the association between intake of unhealthy snacks, meal pattern and the mentioned variables. DESIGN Within the Fruits and Vegetable...

The mechanism by which gauge and gravitational anomalies cancel in certain string theories is reviewed. The presentation is aimed at theorists who do not necessarily specialize in string theory. Talk presented at 2001: A Spacetime Odyssey – the inaugural conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics