We consider a certain combinatorial game on a digraph for two cases of the price function. For one case the game in question extends the cyclical game studied in [1,2] which, in its turn, is a generalization of the well-known problem of finding a minimum mean cycle in an edge-weighted digraph. We prove the existence of optimal uniform stationary strategies for both cases and give algorithms to ...

Explanations based in attribution theory claim that strong external controls such as parental restrictiveness and punishment undermine moral internalization. In contrast, 3 studies provide evidence that parental punishment does socialize morality, but of a particular sort: a morality focused on prohibitions (i.e., proscriptive orientation) rather than positive obligations (i.e., prescriptive or...

Traditional access controls have evolved from being static and coarse-grained to being dynamic and very fine-grained. However, a balance still must be struck: too little access inhibits usefulness, effectively creating a denial of service for people trying to do their jobs; and too much access invites breaches of security. “Break-the-glass’ techniques and adaptive access control have previously...

We introduced the notation of a set of prohibitions and give definitions of a complete set and a crucial word with respect to a given set of prohibitions. We consider 3 particular sets which appear in different areas of mathematics and for each of them examine the length of a crucial word. One of these sets is proved to be incomplete. The problem of determining lengths of words that are free fr...

Harmony is one of three major elements in the music. Harmonics are the basic theory of composition. There are several kinds of prohibitions in relation to the chord progression in the rules of Harmonics. When composers compose music pieces, they pay attention not to contain these prohibitions. The prohibitions are empiricallydefined with giving the musical expressions to melody processes by try...

Islamic financial jurisprudence has always had the stated aim of enhancing human welfare, and therefore prohibitions must be seen through the lens of welfare-enhancing regulation of financial practices. In today’s age of financial engineering, utilizing many of the legal and financial advances of the past two decades, it is quite easy to synthesize the contracts that classical and contemporary ...