This paper seeks to explore where design might best focus its efforts with respect to contemporary concerns about sustainability, particularly in view of the magnitude and nature of change required. The discussion traces the long entrenchment, over several centuries, of assumptions, conventions and outlooks that resulted in a shift in worldview from traditional to modern/late-modern. This shift...

UNITY is a simple programming logic to reason about distributed systems. It is especially attractive because of its elegant axiomatical style. Since its power is limited, people introduce variants to extends it with various new functionalities. However, in the axiomatical style it is easy to make a mistake: a seemingly very logical new inference rule may turn out to be unsound. Formal verificat...

We propose the use of finite Fourier series as an alternative means of representing ovals in projective planes of even order. As an example to illustrate the method’s potential, we show that the set {w +w +w : 0 ≤ j ≤ 2} ⊂ GF(2) forms an oval if w is a primitive (2 +1) root of unity in GF(2) and GF(2) is viewed as an affine plane over GF(2). For the verification, we only need some elementary “t...

At any given time, a subject has a multiplicity of conscious experiences. A subject might simultaneously have visual experiences of a red book and a green tree, auditory experiences of birds singing, bodily sensations of a faint hunger and a sharp pain in the shoulder, the emotional experience of a certain melancholy, while having a stream of conscious thoughts about the nature of reality. Thes...

mulla sadra shirazi by his fundamentals like fundamentality of existence, existential gradation and the unity of being, believes that love equals being and explains how the love moves in all particles in the universe. he maintains that love is divine nature of human existence and it is full of wisdom and expediency sees. although the description of love by the theory of fundamentality of existe...

explanation of the multiplicity of the world and the way it was created from the beginning of existence is one the concerns of philosophers, including mullā ṣadrā. the discourse of the emanation of multiplicity from unity would be totally different with respect to the apparent words of ṣadrā, who believes in the gradational unity of existence and according to his specific viewpoint, believing i...

We present a reduction from the module learning with errors problem (MLWE) in dimension d and with modulus q to the ring learning with errors problem (RLWE) with modulus q. Our reduction increases the LWE error rate α by a quadratic factor in the ring dimension n and a square root in the module rank d for power-of-two cyclotomics. Since, on the other hand, MLWE is at least as hard as RLWE, we c...

It is argued that diverse complex adaptive systems, such as proteins, cells, organisms, organizations, societies and ecosystems, all together constitute one developing, multiscale continuum-economy composed of interacting and interdependent adaptive organizational forms that co-exist and co-evolve at different spatiotemporal scales, forming a nested set of interdependent organizational hierarch...

A strong argument can be mounted, on the basis of the available evidence, that besides offering an increasing amount of employment, mental health services are not doing a great deal of good. Lambert (2010) claims that 75% of people entering community mental health centres in the USA are either not responding to treatment, or worse, deteriorating whilst in care. The Centre for Social Justice (20...