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In this thesis we demonstrate the algorithmic usefulness of the so-called Mal'cev correspondence for computations with infinite polycyclic groups. This correspondence between Q-powered nilpotent groups and rational nilpotent Lie algebras was discovered by Anatoly Mal'cev in 1951…

As an academic discipline, the earth sciences generate, use, and retain vast quantities of objects. This ‘material archive’ exists, first and foremost, as a functional scientific resource; the objects that it contains were never intended to express culture. Since the earth scien…

This dissertation argues that religion is an integral component of the practice of intelligence—i.e., overt and covert state information gathering—both historically and theoretically. To do so, it proposes five definitions or theories of intelligence. It draws each theory from s…