Directed Multicut with linearly ordered terminals

Motivated by an application in network security, we investigate the following "linear" case of Directed Mutlicut. Let $G$ be a directed graph which includes some distinguished vertices $t_1, \ldots, t_k$. What is the size of the smallest edge cut which eliminates all paths from $t_i$ to $t_j$ for all $i < j$? We show that this problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parametrized in the cutset size $p$ via an algorithm running in $O(4^p p n^4)$ time.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur

Payments by a Cash Basis Federal Savings and Loan Association to the FSLIC: Are They Deductible

The author is an attorney in a Kansas City, Missouri law firm. His topic is the deductibility for federal income tax purposes of certain premium payments made by federally chartered savings and loan associations to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). Recently his firm was successful in establishing this point before a federal district court, and more recently the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, re- versing the Tax Court, reached a similar conclusion involving a savings and loan institution chartered under the laws of the state of California. In this article the author urges the correctness of the result in these recent cases while arguing against the reasoning of a published ruling of the Internal Revenue Service which reaches a different conclusion

Glossary of two plays from Ludus Coventriae

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1926

Obesity and the right to sue: would you like fries with that?

There is little chance that obese customers in Australia would fare any better in a claim against fast food companies than their counterparts in the US.<br /

On Continuity: Rush Rhees on Outer and InnerSurfaces of Bodies

This article presents an edited excerpt from a hitherto unknown fragmentary treatise by Rush Rhees. In the treatise, Rhees gives his account of the problem of continuity that he had started elaborating before he became acquainted with Wittgenstein. The excerpt, which contains Rhees' original distinction between outer and inner surfaces of bodies, builds on Brentano's theory of the continuum and his doctrine of plerosis. This treatment of continuity sheds light on Rhees' early philosophical development and confirms that even though he and Wittgenstein discussed the problem of continuity, Rhees' own approach remained distinct from that of Wittgenstein.publishedVersio