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2006, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
In this article we consider three different kinds of domain-dependent control knowledge (temporal, procedural and HTN-based) that are useful in planning. Our approach is declarative and relies on the language of logic programming with answer set semantics (AnsProlog*). AnsProlog* is designed to plan without control knowledge. We show how temporal, procedural and HTN-based control knowledge can be incorporated into AnsProlog* by the modular addition of a small number of domain-dependent rules, ...
2001 •
In this paper we present a declarative approach to adding domain-dependent control knowledge for Answer Set Planning (ASP). Our approach allows different types of domain-dependent control knowledge such as hierarchical, temporal, or procedural knowledge to be represented and exploited in parallel, thus combining the ideas of control knowledge in HTN-planning, GOLOG-programming, and planning with temporal knowledge into ASP. To do so, we view domain-dependent control knowledge as sets of independent constraints.
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2022 •
Cattle traction was a technological innovation that made a significant impact on production, individual and household wealth, and social organisation. Despite ongoing debates regarding the origins and extent of the harnessing of cattle power among early agropastoral societies, only a few studies have attempted at addressing this matter systematically. In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, several studies have explored the symbolism and domestication of aurochs and cattle, while the systematic investigation of Bos skeletal remains regarding the presence of cattle traction has been missing. This study focuses on Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia, renowned for its cattle symbolism, to explore the possibility of cattle traction in the 7th and 6th millennium BCE. We studied the palaeopathological traces on the lower limbs of Bos from Çatalhöyük East (Early, Middle, and Late) and West Mounds. Our results suggest that arthropathies are present on the Bos lower limbs (particularly anterior elements) in all phases of Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Pathological and sub-pathological changes are on average more severe among the small cattle of Çatalhöyük West than in the preceding periods at Çatalhöyük East, a result affected by a few rather deformed specimens in Çatalhöyük West. We did not observe any clear correlation between cattle survivorship, size, and pathology severity. Although an unequivocal association between pathologies and traction in prehistoric cattle remains challenging, we discuss plausible explanations for the changing nature and intensity of cattle pathologies at Çatalhöyük throughout time. Furthermore, we discuss the implications of possible draught use of cattle for the socioeconomic shifts Çatalhöyük experienced in the 6th millennium BC.
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World
Understanding Uniform: An Introduction from Tynan and Godson (eds.) Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2019)2019 •
In Hermann Broch's e Sleepwalkers (1932), the protagonist Joachim von Pasenow ponders the qualities of military uniform:. .. it is the uniform's true function to manifest and ordain order in the world, to arrest the confusion and fl ux of life, just as it conceals whatever in the human body is so and fl owing, covering up the soldier's underclothes and skin. .. Closed up in his hard casing, braced in with straps and belts, he begins to forget his own undergarments, and the uncertainty of life. .. 1
Frontiers of History in China
Of Palaces and Pagodas: Palatial Symbolism in the Buddhist Architecture of Early Medieval China2015 •
This paper is an inquiry into possible motivations for representing timber-frame architecture in the Buddhist context. By comparing the architectural language of early Buddhist narrative panels and cave temples rendered in stone, I suggest that architectural representation was employed in both masonry and timber to create symbolically charged worship spaces. The replication and multiplication of palace forms on cave walls, in “pagodas” (futu 浮圖, fotu 佛圖, or ta 塔), and as the crowning element of free-standing pillars reflect a common desire to express and harness divine power, a desire that resulted in a wide variety of mountainous monuments in China. Finally, I provide evidence to suggest that the towering Buddhist monuments of early medieval China are linked morphologically and symbolically to the towering temples of South Asia through the use of both palace forms and sacred maṇḍalas as a means to express the divine power and expansive presence of the Buddha.
The Balkans are considered a major glacial refugium where flora and fauna survived glacial periods and repopulated the rest of Europe during interglacials. While it is also thought to have harboured Pleistocene human populations, evidence linking human activity, paleoenvironmental indicators and a secure temporal placement to glacial periods is scant. Here, we present the first intra-tooth multi-isotope analysis for the European straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, on an adult male individual excavated in association with lithic artefacts at the MIS 12 site Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis basin, Greece). The studied find also exhibits anthropogenic modifications, providing direct evidence of hominin presence. We employed strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope analysis on enamel bioapatite to investigate its foraging and mobility behaviour, using a sequential sampling strategy along the tooth growth axis of the third upper molar, to assess ecological changes during the last decade of life. We found a geographically restricted range, in a C 3-dominated open woodland environment, and relatively stable conditions over the examined timeframe. Our results show that, despite the severity of the MIS 12 glacial, the Megalopolis basin sustained a mesic habitat, sufficient plant cover and limited seasonal fluctuations in resource availability, pointing to its role as a glacial refugium for both fauna and hominins.
Energy Procedia
The effect of using diesel-biodiesel-bioethanol blends on the fuel feed pump of a small-scale internal combustion engine2019 •
Homeland Security Today
The ISIS Spy Who Saved Baghdad from 30 Bombing Missions and Fortune Teller who Helped Trap an ISIS Leader2019 •
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
TeV scale leptogenesis with dark matter in non-standard cosmology2020 •
Research Square (Research Square)
Use of potentially inappropriate medication and polypharmacy in older adults: a repeated cross-sectional study2019 •
Future of Europe in Ankara Avrupa Çalışmaları Dergisi
DIGITAL EUROPE PROGRAM: NURTURING TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY FOR A RESILIENT EUROPEAN DIGITAL ECOSPHERE2024 •
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
Combining Ricoeur and Bultmann on myth and demythologising2016 •
Social Science & Medicine
Stability of elderly persons' expressed preferences regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments1999 •
Uludag Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi
XIX. Yüzyıl Ortalarında Bursa Medreseleri ve Müderrislerine Yapılan Yıllık Ödemelere Dair Bir Belge2011 •