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In the pre-Internet era there was a significant time lag between the creation of a work by an author and the time a consumer read that work. The Internet has allowed authors to create and publish their work and disseminate across the world quickly. There has been an explosion of online content and publishing over the last decade. Most people believe that this trend is going to continue on a ste...

This paper briefly describes a recent experience of using Jason for teaching Multi-Agent Systems. Jason is a Java-based interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak. The basic AgentSpeak programming language for BDI agents is rather simple, making Jason a suitable tool for students to put into practice some of the elements of the BDI theory covered in the lectures.

Diplopodia, or duplicated foot, is a rare congenital anomaly. It differs from polydactyly in that supernumerary metatarsal and tarsal bones are present as well as extra digits [1]. Only a few cases of this anomaly have been reported in the literature. Karchinov [1] reported six cases with associated hypoplasia or aplasia of the tibia. Hamanishi and colleagues [2] reported a case of diplopodia w...