CouncilMARK™ Revisited: measuring the effectiveness of New Zealand’s local government once more

Limit complexities revisited [once more]

The main goal of this article is to put some known results in a common perspective and to simplify their proofs. We start with a simple proof of a result of Vereshchagin [13] saying that limsupnC(x|n) (here C(x|n) is conditional (plain) Kolmogorov complexity of x when n is known) equals C0 ′ (x), the plain Kolmogorov complexity with 0′-oracle. Then we use the same argument to prove similar resu...

Threshold Phenomena on Product Spaces: Bkkkl Revisited (once More)

The theory of threshold phenomena can be traced back to [Russo, 1982], who described it as an “approximate zero-one law”(see also [Margulis, 1974], [Kahn et al., 1988] and [Talagrand, 1994]). These phenomena occur on {0, 1} equipped with the probability measure μp which is the product of n Bernoulli measures with the same parameter p ∈ [0, 1]. We say that an event A ⊂ {0, 1} is increasing if th...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

The first issue of the World Journal of Critical Care Medicine (WJCCM), whose preparatory work was initiated on December 16, 2010, will be published on February 4, 2012. The WJCCM Editorial Board has now been established and consists of 105 distinguished experts from 27 countries. Our purpose of launching the WJCCM is to publish peer-reviewed, high-quality articles via an open-access online pub...

Measuring the Effects of Local Government Reform: A New Zealand Highway Maintenance Application

Paul Rouse and Martin Putterill Department of Accounting and Finance The University of Auckland New Zealand [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ Abstract In 1989 several hundred New Zealand local government authorities were amalgamated into less than one hundred larger entities. The interest in this research is on determining preand post-...

The Growth of Government Revisited