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The State Of Play: A Notional Machine for Learning Programming
Comprehension of programming and programs is known to be a difficult task for many beginning students, with many computing courses showing significant drop out and failure rates. In this paper, we present a new notional machine de- sign and implementation to help with understanding of pro- gramming and its dynamics for beginning learners. The no- tional machine offers an abstraction of the physical machine designed for comprehension and learning purposes. We in- troduce the notional machine and a graphical notation for its representation. We also present Novis, an implementation of a dynamic real-time visualiser of this notional machine, integrated into BlueJ
Vector product and composition algebras in braided monoidal additive categories
This is an account of some work of Markus Rost and his students Dominik Boos
and Susanne Maurer. We adapt it to the braided monoidal setting.Comment: 23 page
On The Presence of Christ
On the Presence of Christ is a musical work for septet (three strings, three winds, percussion) exploring Christ’s presence throughout all time as described in Scripture, wherein the individual movements are thematically grounded and arranged from ancient past to coming future. “In the Beginning” is based on Genesis 1:1-2 and John 1:1-5; “At the Throne” is based on Revelation 4:2-11; and “With His Saints Forever” is based in Revelation 21:1-5a and 22-23. I use these chosen Scriptures to guide my musical exploration, allowing my reflections and perspectives on them to give this music its substance and form My hope is that this works points beyond my limited perspective concerning these Scriptures, and even the Scriptures themselves, to their divine source, and the goodness, beauty, and truth therein
Bifid Throats for Axion Monodromy Inflation
We construct a simple explicit local geometry providing a `bifid throat' for
5-brane axion monodromy. A bifid throat is a throat that splits into two
daughter throats in the IR, containing a homologous 2-cycle family reaching
down into each daughter throat. Our example consists of a deformed
orbifold of the conifold, which provides us
with an explicit holographic dual of the bifid throat including D3-branes and
fractional 5-branes at the toric singularities of our setup. Having the
holographic description in terms of the dual gauge theory allows us to address
the effect of 5-brane-antibrane pair backreaction including the warping
effects. This leads to the size of the backreaction being small and
controllable after imposing proper normalization of the inflaton potential and
hence the warping scales.Comment: 35 pages, 22 figures. JHEP accepted version with typos corrected and
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