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Veronis et al., “Theoretical investigation of compact couplers between dielectric slab Waveguides and two-dimensional metal-di electric-metal plasmonic Waveguides,” Feb. 5, 2007, Optics Express, vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 1211-1221.* Barnes, W., et al., “Surface plasmon subwavelength optics,” Nature Publishing Group, Aug. 14, 2003, vol. 424, pp. 824-830. BoZhevolnyi, S., et al., “Channel Plasmon-Polar...

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High Hopes and Disappointment

We study preferences for which choosing high expectations about the future make us happy now but make us unhappy later if they are not realized. These preferences generalize the recursive utility of Kreps-Porteus and Epstein-Zin. Like recursive utility agents, our agents care about the time resolution of uncertainty, but our agents are not purely forward-looking. For example, two agents with th...

High hopes for oral cholera vaccine.

Floods did not deter people from coming for the vaccine. September 2006: phase III of a clinical trial of a bivalent, oral cholera vaccine was under way in a neighbourhood of Kolkata in eastern India. As in any clinical trial, this was a critical stage: the vaccine was being given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side-effects and collect information that would all...