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THEORY OF VALUE AND MONEY. In Defence of the Endogeneity of Money

The Marxian notion of value is a complex theoretical construct, which replaces the Classical semi-empirical category of “labour expended” with an inherently monetary economic theory: Value discloses a historically specific social relation (the “market economy” or capitalism) which manifests itself in money. The value of a commodity cannot be determined as such, but only through its form of appe...

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION DSTO Genetically Optimised Feedforward Neural Networks for Speaker Identification

The problem of establishing the identity of a speaker from a given utterance has been conventionally addressed using techniques such as Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) that model the characteristics of a known speaker via means and covariances. In this paper we pose the task as a binary classification problem, and whilst in principle any one of a number of classifiers could be applied, this work...

Performance Indicators in the Dutch Department of Defence

Since the 1980s throughout the Western world, attempts have been made to introduce more decentralized types of management control in government bureaucracies. Decentralization of competences and responsibilities within government organizations should improve efficiency in the public sector specifically in ‘core business’ activities, where access to the market mechanism or transfer to independen...

Which Interventions Offer Best Value for Money in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease?

BACKGROUND Despite many decades of declining mortality rates in the Western world, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. In this research we evaluate the optimal mix of lifestyle, pharmaceutical and population-wide interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. METHODS AND FINDINGS In a discrete time Markov model we simulate the ischaemic heart ...

Why private finance initiatives are so addictive - and yet offer such poor value for money